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Blog posts tagged in structured data
31
May

Edgenet's Latest Video Gives You A Glimpse Of What DFO Looks Like

Posted by on in Edgenet Everywhere

 

In its latest video, Edgenet gives examples of how Ezeedata, its data feed optimization tool, changes how products appear on the internet. In example after example, more and higher-quality data was provided for shoppers. Sometimes you just need to see the difference to understand how better product data will result in better branding and increased sales.

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23
May

Optimize For Mobile Shopping: It Begins With Structured Data

Posted by on in Internet Retail

 

 

 

 

As more consumers turn to mobile devices for everyday activities, some merchants are skipping building a website suited for mobile, and instead working to ensure their products are optimized for mobile devices. So, even if you can't make your website practical and pretty for mobile, you can definitely make your inventory ready for mobile shoppers.

This article from ecommercebytes.com indicates that 65.2% of merchants do not have a mobile website - but mentions that 60% are willing to optimize their online product listings for mobile shoppers.

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04
May

We're All A Lot Like Billy Beane, Or The Rise Of Structured Data

Posted by on in Product Search
Billy Beane is the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, famous because his revolutionary approach to assessing talent and creating a professional sports team. It's not often a book - and then an Oscar-nominated movie - are written about a sports executive.
Beane studies lots and lots of statistics in assessing talent, creating unique calculations of value in a process called sabermetrics. So, whereas another general manager would have seen great value in a strapping young prospect with a batting average of .350 (hits/at bats), Billy Beane might find the prospect's actual value to be far less looking at his (hits +walks) (total bases)/(at-bats + walks).
Bored yet? Lots of old-school managers were, too. Until Billy started winning. And winning. And winning with a pretty small payroll. A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you'll catch people's attention.
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