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Legacy Yahoo stores do not support the catalog.xml Store Export file that would contain extended product attributes. As a workaround, you can embed these attributes in your product captions or descriptions as follows:
<!--
<googleproducttype>Sporting Goods > Indoor Games
> Bowling > Bowling Gloves</googleproducttype>
<pgcategory>Sporting Goods > Bowling > Gloves & Accessories</pgcategory>
<bingcategory>Sports & Outdoors > Bowling > Gloves</bingcategory>
<manufacturer>Acme Golf Supply</manufacturer>
<brand>Performance Golf</brand>
<upc>0123456789</upc>
<mpn>100XYZ</mpn>
<agerange>adults</agerange>
<feature>non-slip</feature>
<department>mens</department>
<height></height>
<width></width>
<depth></depth>
<color>white</color>
<material>leather</material>
<style>golf</style>
<madein>US</madein>
<shipping>US:::0.00</shipping>
-->
You can eliminate any tags that you do not need, and add tags that you want to include. For best results, we recommend adding a category field for each shopping engine. We can configure each feed to use the appropriate data. For the other fields like <manufacturer> and <mpn>, we can use the same data for every feed, so you do not need to make a different one for each shopping engine.
The information in the made-up HTML tags is commented out and will not be visible in your actual product pages, but you could use style sheets and display the information too. After you populate the data in your descriptions, just contact us and we can add the custom fields to extract the data. Your feed will have to be upgraded to an Advanced feed to support custom fields.
Not all the items need to have the embedded attribute values. We can define default values for those items with a value missing.
If product attributes are already in your descriptions in a consistent, standardized format, we can usually write custom fields to extract the existing attribute values.
Last Updated: August 5, 2010Feedback