affiliate data feeds

[al2six]

anyone have experience using data feeds from affiliate programs? I'm thinking about making an affiliate site for zzsounds, but with a little twist

i was hoping to get some advice as to the best way to get the raw feed into search engine friendly html/php.

[ranfo]

See http://ranandar.com/

I use a program I wrote in Delphi to generate the Web pages and search data. The ZZounds affiliate program is nice. Do you know of any other data feed programs that are similar?

[5StarAffiliatePrograms]

HI All,

Zzounds is one of my clients and they do have a great program. They even track and pay for 800# phone sales.

Most affiliates I know use a program like Webmerge to convert datafeeds into a static web site that is easily spidered.

I have also written a couple of articles about affiliate datafeeds for anyone who would like to learn more here:

http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.co...directory.html

Hope this helps!

[Grumpus]

Amazon has feeds of data for affiliates. You can create an entire store with those feeds. I'm using a script I wrote in ASP for our Store. It's very easy to integrate into the content sections of your site as well. (In the following example, the code I'm using is VERY old and doesn't always show the most relevant results. Since I wrote the code, they've made it a lot easier to bring relevant results - I just haven't had time to update the code). Here's the Google category of the directory and you'll see the listing of related products at the bottom of the page.

A WAY cool new feature they've added and that I have managed to update is the "text stream" search. I'm using it on our Blog for the "Recommended Reading" list. In essence, I take the entire contents of the most recent entry in the blog and combine that with a list of general keywords that I made up to help tweak relevance. I put that paragraph of raw text and keywords (up to about 1500 characters) and send it to amazon. Amazon comes back with a list of relevant books. Way Good.

My examples, above, are in ASP. There is a whole set of PHP modules available for the service though. It's definitely worth looking into.

G.