Glad you left that comment.

In the future I will just do Y! Product Search and Google Product Search. After going through lengthy sign-up processes, creating custom feeds for each of them, and paying like $.50/click they basically didn’t convert…at all. Total waste of time. Most sites I spent $50-$100 so you’d expect at least 1 conversion. One could argue small sample size, but I also noticed the number of referrals from Analytics were significantly lower than what they said they sent me in a lot of cases. Just didn’t all add up to me and seemed like a waste of effort in retrospect.

Y! is totally worth it in my opinion. The CPC are reasonable and the quality of visitor has been solid, converting very well.

Now, as far as tracking Google Product Search with Analytics – I had no idea it was that easy. It was something I had heard about and – to be honest – forgotten about. I planned on looking into some of the advanced features of Analytics and never quite got to it.

Anyway, it’s on my to-do list now so THANK YOU for the info and giving me the push I needed to put this in place. I always wondered what % of organic Google sales were from Product Search…

Adam

Have you started to see any results from these additional product search engines?

I have only used Google Product Search in the past- the others seemed like alot of work for (potentially) little return. (I suppose I should be looking at Yahoo Product Search at the very least.) Are there any others that have shown potential?

BTW, it doesn’t look like you are specifically tracking your Google Product Search items with Analytics. This may be useful to you:

http://business.brandongreenlee.com/tracking-anything-with-google-analytics-including-google-product-search/