Affiliate network with products datafeed

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Hello all,

I'd like to know what is the usefulness of product datafeed and which affiliate networks should i joined. Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 


You should join the network that has an offer you like.

Product datafeeds can be dynamically embedded into your site to display products and their relevant information. When the merchant updates their product line, your site is automatically updated.
 
Cool ...I like that idea, I wish amazon had somethin like that, it has RSS feeds, where you can aggrigate it to your site, however it is hard to get it the way you want it to look. It does not split every section up in the XML as seperate items..for example, it looks like this:

<item>amazon.com/image.jpg thelink price </item>
Instead of this:

<item>
<image>amazon.com/image.jpg</image><url>thelink</url><price>price</price>
</item>



The reason you would want to do that, is to customize the image/text/links to your current website theme. I kind of found a way around it, but I don't like the proccess to much. That is, splitting it up by Style name. For example, image has

<span name="image"></span> Before it, So, if the span name was image, I would then be able to grab what the image link is.


Pretty annoying doing it this way, because I can only do it for ONE feed a page, since it re-creates the <span's> on the page, and once there's more than one of the span "image" It can't tell the difference between the two. If anyone knows another way of doing this, that would be much appreciated :D

Thanks
SR
 
komrad said:
Hello all,

I'd like to know what is the usefulness of product datafeed and which affiliate networks should i joined. Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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Ebay affiliate sites, in bulk, can be pretty profitable.
 
Datafeeds are a great way to build a product site. All major networks that deal in physical products provide them. (CJ, ShareASale, Linkshare, Tradedoubler, etc.)

They do require a bit of php/mysql understanding to set up, but if you're not too comfortable coding something off the bat - there are always some nice scripts out there that will do that for you.
 
digga121 said:
Cool ...I like that idea, I wish amazon had somethin like that, it has RSS feeds, where you can aggrigate it to your site, however it is hard to get it the way you want it to look. It does not split every section up in the XML as seperate items..for example, it looks like this:

<item>amazon.com/image.jpg thelink price </item>
Instead of this:

<item>
<image>amazon.com/image.jpg</image><url>thelink</url><price>price</price>
</item>



The reason you would want to do that, is to customize the image/text/links to your current website theme. I kind of found a way around it, but I don't like the proccess to much. That is, splitting it up by Style name. For example, image has

<span name="image"></span> Before it, So, if the span name was image, I would then be able to grab what the image link is.


Pretty annoying doing it this way, because I can only do it for ONE feed a page, since it re-creates the <span's> on the page, and once there's more than one of the span "image" It can't tell the difference between the two. If anyone knows another way of doing this, that would be much appreciated :D

Thanks
SR
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I was pulling data from their feeds for a comparison search engine I programmed, and as of 2 years ago, things were split up properly.
 
Considering it doesn't seem to be the OP's first language, I think they did pretty well. Let's see you speak a Slavic language that well, "comrade."

Anyway, I give a second vote to share a sale.
 
A lot of merchants in Shareasale provide the datafeed.. you'll download it as .txt file but later you can convert it to .csv file (comma delimited)
 
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