The description is one of the most important factors influencing a product's visibility in a price comparison engine. It is also crucial from the user's perspective, as it should provide the most accurate, complete and truthful information about the item they are interested in.

A properly prepared description has a positive effect not only on product search, but also on the customer's decision-making process. What should be included in the product descriptions offered by a store that has decided to integrate with a price comparison engine? What additional data can it provide so that this tool can best support its sales?

Integration with price comparison engines requires a well-prepared XML file. This is the primary source of information about the products available in an online store. The higher the quality of the data, the more effectively the store will be promoted in the comparison engine.

Writing product descriptions is often outsourced by online stores to external companies, in the interest of unique content that will be more valuable to Google. It sometimes happens that these descriptions are reluctantly shared with services that support sales, such as price comparison engines, for fear that the service will use them and build its own SEO in this way. Nothing could be further from the truth. Price comparison engines need product descriptions, but for a completely different purpose. The pages on which product descriptions and parameters are displayed are not indexed, and consequently are not used for positioning purposes – said Karolina Zasada, Account Coordinator at the Okazje.info Group.

Pay attention to the product description

Descriptions are very important from the perspective of users using price comparison engines. The information they contain helps them reach the products they are interested in. The description is one of the elements checked by the comparison engine's internal search engine. The product or offer name alone cannot always convey the important elements that may affect the purchasing decision. What is more, a product without an appropriate description, even though it is present in the service, may not be displayed to the user at all.

The product description affects not only its searchability, but also customers' purchasing decisions. The more information the user obtains thanks to the comparison engine, the more determined they will be when they go to the store, and therefore the greater the chance that they will make a purchase. The lack of complete information about a product forces the customer to look for knowledge in other sources, which lengthens the purchasing process and may result in the purchase ultimately being made in a different store – adds Karolina Zasada, Account Coordinator at the Okazje.info Group.

What data should a store provide during the integration process with a price comparison engine?

When creating product descriptions, it is worth remembering a few important elements. One of them is the manufacturer's code or the European Article Number (EAN).

By defining this parameter for your products, you increase the likelihood that they will be correctly classified and grouped with the right offers, so that users can find them more easily in the comparison engine – said Karolina Zasada, Account Coordinator at the Okazje.info Group.

In product descriptions, especially in the case of electronics, it is also very important to include additional parameters. Providing information about disk capacity, screen diagonal, weight or the amount of RAM can greatly help the customer reach the product they are interested in. What is more, on the basis of both descriptions and specific parameters, filters are created within the service, thanks to which the user can narrow down the list of viewed products to those that actually interest them.

A picture is worth a thousand words

One of the most important elements determining sales is also photos. To increase profits, it is worth taking care of the highest quality photographs of the products presented in the comparison engine.

If a store is running a sale, it pays to show it by adding the product's previous price to the promotional offers in the file. Awareness of taking advantage of an exceptional price bargain significantly speeds up the customer's purchasing decision – adds Karolina Zasada, Account Coordinator at the Okazje.info Group.

The last element worth remembering when providing data to a price comparison engine is the product availability status. By providing it, a store can avoid empty redirects generated by people who want to check whether a product is available immediately or on order.

Integration with a price comparison engine can be very profitable for a store. However, to ensure the best results, it is necessary to complete detailed information about each product. Thanks to this, customers will more easily find the item they are interested in, and the store will increase not only sales, but also the quality of traffic directed to it from the comparison engine.

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