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Time2Change Feed Service
Price Comparison Services
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On the internet, a price comparison service (also known as shopping comparison or price engine) allows individuals to see lists of
prices for specific products. Most price comparison services do not sell products themselves, but source prices from retailers from
whom users can buy. In most cases retailers supply the product details and prices by means of a feed file which is uploaded
to the price comparsion service site.
Most price comparison service have thier own feed file format.
As well as accepting feed files from retailers price comparison services will also crawl the web for prices. This means the
comparison service scans retailers web pages to retrieve the prices, instead of relying on the retailers to supply them.
As Time2Change are online traders we have experience of selling using online shopping engines and we have
found that these give the best return on investment for you advertsing budget. Pay per click customers who click
through from a shopping comparison sites are more likley to be looking for something to buy than
pay per click customers who come in thoruigh an search engine ( for example if you have an adwords
campaign ). Also by the time they choose to click through to your site they already know the
important details about your product, its price, size, what it looks like etc.
We doubled our turnover when we started listing our products on shopping.com.
Price comparison services do not normally charge users anything to use the site. Instead, they make money through payments from
retailers who are listed on the site. Retailers will either pay each time a customer clicks through to one of thier
products or they will pay a flat fee to be listed on the price comparison service site.
The are many price comparison services. Some of the larger comparison services are.
Shopping.com
Pricegrabber
Shopzilla
Kelkoo
Google also provides a price comparions service.
Google product search which is free to use for
both customers and retailers.
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