RSS Feeds - Is anyone promoting their shop with this yet?

[havenindia]

Hi, I am just learning about this RSS Feed for promoting your ebay listings, so that a buyer can subscribe to your shops RSS feed and receive an update each time you add new items.

But, after updating my windows version..downloading microsoft.net framework 1.1 and a RSS Reader to help me download the feeds. I dont have the option in my ebay store to activate them!
I have the RSS logo at the base of my store page - so people can subscribe, but I want to be able to control it..

Is anyone using this already? any ideas here?

I want to create a feed that is category specific. I have a category that is only viewable from another ebay country and I dont want those buyers downloading all of my listings, just the ones that apply to them.

any help here would be good.

[zookmart]

ebay doesnt allow to much customization !

I would suggest creating your own website powered by ebay on the backend. this gives you high level of flexibility !

NitroTribe.com

[havenindia]

hiya, nice thought - but that doesnt have the same impact as someone receiving an RSS alert because you have just listed the product they were after.

If you are going to just paste half your ebay shop onto your website, you still need to have the traffic to your site, thats pretty hard to set up and still cant compete with the ebay power your shop has.

Your Ebay shop already makes page 1 on the google search results thanks to ebay (providing you have your keywords set up).

[Anonymous]

Hello havenindia

eBay offers RSS feeds for Search results as well as Shops. For the benefit of all users viewing this thread, the help link is : http://pages.ebay.in/help/welcome/contextual/search_rss.html?fromFeature=Search%20Results

The RSS feeds can be accessed from the Search results page (look for the typical Orange RSS chicklet at the bottom of the search results page as well as the Shop page)

For your case, I would suggest that you explore the GetSearchResults API (http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/XML/docs/Reference/eBay/io_GetSearchResults.html), which offers almost all the filtering options available in Search. You can get a quick PHP / ASP code developed that would fetch your listings and use that information to create an RSS feeds of the listings from the specific category that you want to create a feed for. Here's a link to my post on another thread on the same subject made earlier (http://forums.ebay.in/thread.jspa?messageID=600006505&forumID=300000003#600006505)

Alternatively, you can try the REST API (http://developer.ebay.com/developercenter/rest) which accepts the parameters in the URL itself (& thus saves you the effort of having to get the code developed). Using the REST API also gives you the flexibility to automatically display the results as an HTML page (the API normally returns an XML output) by uploading a Stylesheet (http://one102.fairmarket.net/index.aspx)

I am happy to provide clarification on this if required

Finally, on the choice of RSS feed readers, I am happy using web-based feed readers like Bloglines or Google Reader, for their ease of use & the ability to use them across computers. But, in case you are not online most of the time, then a desktop based feed reader would be more suitable

[i-tarang]

hey nitro_fashion
i saw your website www.nitrotribe.com , it is awsome and the technique that you have used is great too, can u please help me and tell me how script or wat application are you using for this, so that i can also use this application on my websites.

Thanks in advance.
Tarang Bhargava