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What Froogle/GoogleBase module does

X-Cart's Froogle/GoogleBase module provides a tool that allows you to submit product feeds to Google Base so the products sold by your store can be found by Internet users using Froogle, Google's shopping search engine.

Froogle is an extension of Google dedicated to helping shoppers quickly find products for sale on the Web. Data in Froogle comes from two sources: product feeds submitted by merchants and a crawl of web pages that identifies product offers. A Froogle product feed is a text file containing specially formatted information about the products offered for sale by a store. As a merchant, you can submit information about your products in the form of a product feed so your products get included into Froogle listings. Submitting a product feed to Froogle is free.

X-Cart's Froogle/GoogleBase module facilitates creation and submission of product feeds to Froogle. It pulls data from all of the products in your store database, creates a properly formatted product feed file and uses FTP to submit this file to Google Base. Google Base then places the submitted product information in Froogle.

You also have the option of downloading the product feed file to your local computer for manual submission or other usage.

Regularly submitting product feeds to Froogle ensures that the information about your products in Froogle's listings is accurate and up to date.

Roles in Froogle/Google Base module management

If you are an X-Cart GOLD administrator/provider or an X-Cart PRO administrator:

▪You can enable/disable the module Froogle/GoogleBase and adjust its configuration settings (See Enabling and Configuring 'Froogle/GoogleBase').
▪You can create Froogle/GoogleBase feeds that will include information about all the products in the store and submit them to Froogle via Google Base or download them onto your local computer (See Using Froogle/GoogleBase Export).

If you are an X-Cart PRO provider:

▪You can create Froogle/GoogleBase feeds that will include information about your products and submit them to Froogle via Google Base or download them onto your local computer (See Using Froogle/GoogleBase Export).