Product Content Optimization can be defined as anything that enriches or improves the actual product attributes in a feed, to ensure you are exporting complete and high-quality content to your sales channels.
The online shopping industry has developed high standards when it comes to purchasing your products. No matter if you are selling via an Instagram Ad, a Google Shopping Product Listing Ad or a comparison site like PriceRunner - you need to always be providing accurate and up-to-date content.
Different sales channels will be sent product listings from thousands of different online merchants. Many of these will only meet the basic feed requirements of the channel, and be unstructured, untidy, inconsistent and complicated.
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Comma Separated Values (CSV)
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
Tab Separated Values (TSV)
As well as this, each one of these merchants will also send their information in a different way, in different formats (Google Spreadsheet, JSON, CSV, XML file).
Choosing not to optimize product content means retailers risk missing out on thousands of sales:
We stated above how important it is to add consistency to your product content. If you are displaying one set of information in a Facebook ad and an entirely different set on your Google Shopping campaign or your own store, you are guaranteed to lose potential sales and quickly gain a bad reputation.
Ensuring you have a consistent presence with the same, regularly updated info being sent to all your sales channels is what feed marketing tools guarantee. You can be assured that the product content you are sending to customers is correct, complete and accurate - improving the overall shopping experience.
As well as this, you are moving beyond tools that offer simple integrations to shopping channels, you are improving and optimizing the product content, so it is not just being listed, it is performing effectively.
Possibly the most significant aspect of using a feed marketing tool is the amount of time it saves digital marketers, PPC Managers, ecommerce merchants and online store owners.
Your data is dealt with by feed marketing experts who understand how to analyze the data content they are given. By identifying opportunities for cleaning, standardizing, enriching and optimizing your data - specific to the channels you want to sell on, they deliver a boost to online performance in a fraction of the time.
Enrich product content with additional info to give your business the vital edge:
Wakeupdata allows me, a person with no programming background, build the feed by myself from scratch and customize it as I go, which definitely has the potential to be a big time-saver.
Joni Helminen, Senior Specialist at OMD Finland