Smarter.com is an online comparison shopping engine that claims to be the best consumer experience among all other CSE’s. Their goal is to help consumers make smarter buying decisions by enabling them to compare products from thousands of online retailers. They strive to keep their list of retailers reputable by removing stores that consistently receive negative feedback. Smarter.com explains that they strive to offer the best deal possible by factoring in their algorithm relevance, price, feedback and merchant reputation. So it is entirely possible a search result could deliver results where a product is more expensive for position one than position five.
Smarter.com is a Cost Per Click (CPC) pricing model engine and their minimum bid requirements generally begin at 15 cents.
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Sign up for your Smarter.com Account
To get listed on Smarter.com, visit https://sam.smarter.com/register/sign_up_step_1.php and follow the set up steps.
Adding Products
From Smarter.com FAQ section --
There are several ways for a merchant to submit their data feed, or what Smarter calls the Smarter Product File (SPF):
Login to the Smarter Account Management (SAM) system and request an FTP location...
- Click http://sam.smarter.com to access your account
- Click on the 'Datafeed' tab
- Enter your email address into the appropriate section to request an FTP location from Smarter
- Once you have an FTP location, you will need to configure your FTP client to send your SPF to Smarter.
- Directions on configuring/sending your SPF file:
- Click 'New on your FTP client
- Enter the FTP location information:
- Host Name: [ex: company.smarter.com] - This is where we will go to find your file
- User Name: Enter the username that was generated when you made a request for an FTP location
- Password: Enter the password that was generated when you made a request for an FTP location
- Click 'Save', then 'OK'
- Using the arrows on the left side of the FTP client, locate the folder which contains your SPF file
- Highlight your file and click on the arrow pointing to the right to send your file to Smarter
- Directions on configuring/sending your SPF file:
Smarter.com will retrieve your SPF after you provide an FTP location...
- Email SPF@smarter.com and provide them with the FTP location
- Information to be included in the email:
- Host Name (ex: your.domain.com)
- Username (ex: smarterdatafeed)
- Password
Submit a web address where Smarter can retrieve your SPF...
- Email SPF@smarter.com and provide the FTP location
- Click http://sam.smarter.com to access your account
- Click on the 'Datafeed' tab
- Submit the URL where your datafeed is located (ex: http://www.companyname.com/smarterdatafeed.csv )
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