a few questions

[Kelly]

I am thinking about starting a froogle feed, just built my 1st dynamic site/page for the links.

When you send your feed, and your products are listed in frooge, if you send a new/updated feed, will the old listings (ones no longer in the feed) be removed, or will they stay?

The reason I ask, is that we sell coins and paper money, and our inventory changes daily, and sometime we never get the same item again.

I set up 1 page so that all the items will go through it.

ie: www.MyDomain.com/pg.php?item=F124

I will be sending 2000+ items to the feed, as inventory changes, many items could be removed. If they stay, should I do a redirect to a 404 page if the item is not in the database?

I would really hate to have a few hundred pages that state we are temporarily out of stock or that re-direct to a 404 error page.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[polarmate]

Kelly, you can set your feed up to be an update if you so choose. But if you just want to replace your old feed with the new one, you don't need to do anything special. Just place a new feed in your assigned directory and it will be treated as such.

[Kelly]

Polarmate,

If I do an update, will it remove the "old links" if they do not show up in my update? Is a new feed different than an update?

Sorry to seem so dumb about this. I just signed up with froogle, and need to wait for their e-mail telling me what to do.

Thanks,
Kelly

[polarmate]

Kelly the documentation they send you will explain that. There is a parameter that you set in the feed called updates_only which can take the values NO and YES. If you set this to YES, then the data will be regarded as updates only.

My understanding is that if you do not include this parameter, it is considered a full feed and it replaces anything you may have released previously.