Cafepress & Froogle

topic posted Thu, March 9, 2006 - 8:38 AM by  Groomporter
If you have a cafepress shop to sell some of your art you may already know that because cafepress is so huge, Google's shopping search engine "Froogle" is not suppose to accept listings from individual cafepress stores, and restricts the number of products they will list from the central Cafepress.com corporate account.

Well, I seem to have found a way around that... Since I already was listed in Froogle using my regular retail website, I created links from my regular website to my cafepress products (See this page for example links www.historicgames.com/notecards.html ) and then entered them in my Froogle database as if they were just being sold from my regular site. Since Froogle drops your listings if you don't update it, I just add another one or two of my Cafepress items every month to keep it updated.

At this point I am just linking directly to the graphics of my products in Cafepress, but in the long run it might prevent Froogle from figuring out this ploy if you host the graphics as part of your own website rather then hotlinking to them in Cafepress.
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Groomporter
Minnesota

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