Importing and Exporting e-commerce products to your site
If you are moving, changing or upgrading your site you'll often have to either bulk import or bulk export your products, pages and search engine information to a format such as SQL, XLS, CSV or TSV.
There are a number of problems associated with the procedure of either exporting your existing product catalogue, or importing a new product range to your website. The key issues are listed below:-
- Characters - 'trouble makers' like ampersands, apostrophes, pound signs etc can cause problems.
- Encoding types - utf8, latin, iso. When using mysql this is an important factor, often overlooked.
- Website encoding - as per above, your website must be similar encoding to your database.
eSeo can offer the following solutions to aid your product importing/exporting:-
- Bulk Text operations
- Bulk Google Base / Froogle operations
- Bulk SEO operations - We have the experience to generate well constructed and relevant important SEO fields.
- Bulk Image Operations - Our bespoke software can saturate, crop or resize multiple images for your products.