Dropship Mysteries: What Is A Product Feed?

Product feed is the product list that contains information usually for an ecommerce website.

When you look through search engines about a particular ecommerce site, you will find information that gives you product comparison and information on a website. This information that is given is known as product feed.

You can set up your own product feed. Here are a few steps that will help you do so.

-One of the easiest ways to create your own product feed is by downloading the customized Microsoft Excel sheet template that several sites offer you. These product feeds are easy to use, and can be customized according to your requirement.

-Product feeds can also be built easily by using the spreadsheet program like Excel or even a text editor like Notepad. You can even use a script that can generate a file automatically. One such tool that is widely used to create product feeds is XML

-Once you’re ready with your product feed you can upload it either through your browser or File Transfer Protocol. The FTP option is the best if you are looking at automating the transmission of your product feed.

There is a thin line of difference between product feed and data feed.

While product feed lists information of products in a special formation, data feed on the other hand is a mechanism for structured data used in real time applications and the internet. Product feeds are however are hugely important for e-commerce as well as internet marketing sites.

What is XML?

XML is known as extensible Markup language. It is nothing but a bunch of rules that is necessary for encoding documents in an electronic format.

It is considered to be a very flexible text format and therefore used extensively for creating structured computer documents like product feeds.

What is RSS?

RSS which is a form of product feed is what belongs to the web feed family, so that regular work is published and updated over the internet.

A few examples would be news headlines, blog entries, and video and audio that is put up in a standard format etc.

Product feeds are used extensively over the internet, and its use will continue to grow.

This is because websites that sell products like ecommerce sites generally store information about their products in this product feed files. Product feeds are extensively used in ecommerce sites, news sites, shopping portals and search ads. Since these sites need to be updated constantly with real time data and information about the ads, and products sold.

Since product feeds allow for real time updation about products to be sold on an ecommerce website, it is the best form of structural data for dropshippers and resellers.

They rely heavily on product feeds as their websites need constant updation of product information like pricing, item description, number of items sold etc.

Choosing a product feed for your website needs to be articulately done.

Since there are thousands of product feed codes and text formatting codes available, choosing one that suits your specific requirement is imperative.

Make sure that the product feed you choose can be customized to your requirement. Also make sure that it is easy to use, since you will be adding in information on a regular basis.