Microsoft Launches New Product Search Vertical

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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 don’t guarantee your offers always show up in the new shopping experience if your ecommerce site or offers that doesn’t 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/Article.aspx?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