Merchant Product Datafeeds for Affilates - 101

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Table of Contents

1. Datafeed Format
2. Delivery Method
3. Datafeed Content
3.1 Comments to specific Content
4. General Notes and Comments
5. XML vs Text Feed
6. Datafeed Resources, Tools and Services

Introduction
I dealt with feeds from hundreds of merchants, ALL US Affiliate Networks, Commission Junction, Linkshare, BeFree (now part of CJ), Performics (now Google Affiliate Network), ShareASale, Kolimbo by Inuvo (formerly known as Kowabunga), Dark Blue, you name it. The Feeds came in all kind of formats and delivery methods.

I also implemented some Datafeeds for Merchants (as AM) as well. With this in mind you can believe me, that I am knowing what I am talking about.

If you are an Affiliate Manager and want to provide a Datafeed to your Affiliates, you should be interested in this.

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A lens is not able to cover this entire subject, but introduce you to it and then point to additional content online, which goes into the details of the various aspects and related issues and mistakes made when it comes to working with product data feeds for partners and affiliates.

Affiliate Datafeeds Resources, Guides and Articles: Datafeed Resources, Articles and Guides, Affiliate Product Datafeeds Tools and Services, Affiliate Program APIs and Webservices
Web Development Resources: Collection of Web Development Resources and APIs including Affiliate Program APIs for Amazon.com, Ebay and Commission Junction.
Database Development Resources: Collection of Database Development Resources primarily for MS SQL Server, but also some for MySQL Server.
Affiliate Marketing Resources: Collection of Affiliate Marketing Resources for Affiliates, Advertisers and OPMs. Also check the Internet Marketing, SEO and SEM/PPC Resources which are one of the most comprehensive on the Internet.
Commission Junction Web Services: Free Web Services for CJ.com Affiliate Publishers and Advertisers. Developer Support Forum, Sample Code, FAQ and more.
Web Services Development Resources: Collection of Resources for Web Services Developer. SOAP, WSDL, SAX, REST, XML-RPC, JAX-RPC, you name it. If you are serious about Web Services, you should be serious about this Resource.

Datafeed Integration Services

DatafeedFiles.com: Affiliate Data Feed Aggregator Service, Coupon & Search Integration Solution. Showcase Creator. Add Products to your site via simple JavaScript Code or use the API and build your own application without the need to import and store the Datafeeds yourself.
GoldenCAN: Affiliate Data Feed, Coupon & Search Integration Solution. Showcase Creator. Price Dops. Merchants with 4th Click or "Free" Merchant Option.
MyDataFeedScripts: MyDataFeedScripts can provide you with that capability to provide a template site to you affiliates or show them how to use your feed as long as you are already providing a datafeed inhouse or via a network like Shareasale, Commission Junction or LinkShare
ScriptFeed.com: Extremely Fast and Very User Friendly Affiliate Data Feed Website Builder.
Product Showcase Creator: An easy to use, web-based tool that creates affiliate-link encoded product showcases in seconds! This innovative tool will create incentive for affiliate marketers to push your products rather than your competitors.
FeedShare: FeedShare is an affiliate data feed distribution system. FeedShare imports data feed files from merchants and distributes them to their affiliates via several integration methods such as XML/CSV files or one of our two instant store front tools which allow affiliates to create dynamic shopping cart style web sites without any programming.
WebMerge: Publish any database or spreadsheet
with templates from any HTML editor
on any Web server. And then automate it.
Cusimano.com Scripts: Easy to Use Tools for Webmasters to Increase Affiliate Sales
DesignerWiz.com: Web Templates, JS Code Snippets, JS Code Makers and more.
... Additional Services: find more datafeed services and tools
PopShops: Web 2.0 style and easy to use mini shop generator for affiliates. Select products to promote from over 700 merchants and 8 million products.Numerous output options, including RSS and XML API.

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Carsten Carsten Sep 24, 2009 @ 5:22 am | in reply to Matt Houldsworth

Sorry Matt, but I consider your tool to be worthless. It basically spams search engines and chances are good that sites generated by the tool get banned automatically or sooner than later manually by all major search engines.

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Matt Houldsworth Matt Houldsworth Sep 23, 2009 @ 8:39 am

Hi, A Great writeup. Thanks.

I am an affiliate marketer and I concentrate on merchants who have datafeeds as I feel this is the easiest method of marketing a merchants products effectively.

I have created a wordpress plugin that can import datafeeds and create a website from them using the wordpress framework. Have a look at http://www.digitalquill.co.uk/datafeedplugin/