Working with Affiliate Data Feeds

Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Urbain


ecommerceAre you into affiliate marketing?  It’s an easy way to make some extra money online without having to stock products and fulfill orders.  The more products you have to promote, the better commission checks you’re going to receive at the end of every month.

The problem is that promoting a lot of products can be a challenge, especially if you are copying and pasting HTML code for your web pages.  Not only is it time consuming, but affiliates and/or their products occasionally expire, so it is a lot of work to keep up.

Data feeds are the way to go when it comes to affiliate sites.  They can be a challenge to work with and that’s why it’s time for you to explore a new option which will allow you to increase your profits more than you ever thought possible.  By the end of today, you can have an entire ecommerce online storefront, full of products you can make commissions off of, all based in whatever niche you choose!

Data Feeds Made Easy.

A powerful way to build an affiliate ecommerce store is by using data feeds. Data feeds are similar to the RSS feeds used by blogs and include  descriptions, pictures, and prices of  products.  Your affiliate commission can be “plugged in” to these feeds so that you make some money.  Data feeds are available for free at Share A Sale and some of the other affiliate networks.  At Commission Junction, you have to pay for access.

If you are technically savvy, you can build your own online store by tweaking the data feed.   To make things faster, you can use the services of an ecommerce solutions company like Datafeedr.com who will walk you through all the steps and support you as you get your online presence built.

Datafeedr is great because they already have all of the software in place to set up your data feeds.  What’s also nice about it is that they have a license to access the data feeds on services such as CJ so you don’t have to pay for it yourself.

An Example.

Yesterday afternoon I thought I would try this out on a domain that has been sitting around for awhile.  Although I have some tweaking to do in the headers and and templates, the store I built with Datafeedr is ready to go — and it just took a few hours to do.  The most time consuming part was making my blog look pretty … and that had nothing to do with Datafeedr!  Take a look at an ecommerce blog that features batteries and you will see the incredible potential that Datafeedr offers.

Is It Hard to Use?

If you can follow instructions, you should be able to figure out how to use Datafeedr pretty quick.  There are excellent video tutorials throughout the process.  My personal opinion is that the most difficult part is figuring out the Boolean search to fine tune the product listings.  I’m getting the hang of it and should have a better ecommerce site than the battery one up soon.

Go For It!

If you are serious about making money on line, it has never been easier to build your own ecommerce online store, full of products that you could be making generous commissions from for every sale.  If you have a blog, take Datafeedr for a whirl and unleash the earning capability of your blog.  It’s only $27 a month to set up a feed on one site, which is a steal considering how difficult it can be to work with data feeds.

The folks at Datafeedr.com have millions of different products that you can choose from for your ecommerce online store; and are ready to help you get your web site up and running in no time!

Watch the video at Datafeedr.com and see how easy it is to set up your own affiliate data feed stores.

Obviously, you’ll need to do a bit of marketing and make your site original to enhance your earning potential.  I am going to be doing a case study on the battery site very soon.

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