05-01-2008, 11:36 AM
This just in...
Quote:Dear Merchant,
Thanks for participating in Live product Upload beta. We really appreciate your support and our team got very valuable feedback from you during this beta program.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our product search vertical at http://search.live.com/products. This is a new and improved shopping experience that will enable users to do research and buy their favorite products.
How does this impact you?
Starting April 30th we will be migrating your merchant catalogs to http://search.live.com/products . During this migration you may experience some errors in reporting or delay in status. We ask for your patience during this transition period as we strive to provide you and your customers with an outstanding online shopping experience.
Going forward we will be retiring http://products.live.com Beta program and all the traffic will be directed to new shopping experience. During this process we will be evaluating your offers and only qualified merchants will be participating in this program.
We dont guarantee your offers always show up in the new shopping experience if your ecommerce site or offers that doesnt adhere to following policies.
* Merchants must have contact us information on store URL and a valid address
* Merchants should accept known payment types ( Visa, Master, PayPal etc)
* Merchants should have SSL implemented on their sites for processing payments
* Merchants should have a valid shopping cart process
* Merchants should belong to US markets and site language is in English
* Offers should not contains auctions items
* Offers should have valid images for their offers
* Offer URLs should be hosted in merchant site.
* Offers should be fulfilled by merchant and we will reject all affiliate offers
* Offers should not contain Adult content , Alcohol related items, Firearms, Hate or Profanity, Spam
* Offers should not contain incorrect pricing
* Offer Image URL should be crawlable by MSN Imagebot
For more content policies visit :- http://advertising.microsoft.com/Home/Ar...pageid=708&Adv_Articleid=3211
In case you have any questions, please reach us at Windows Live Product Upload Support
We really appreciate your participation and continued support.
Thanks,
Product Upload Support Team