A Product Datafeed is a great way to optimize your program! You get listed in a bunch of ShareASale tools that Affiliates use – namely our “Make A Page“, “Widgets“, “Videos” – and you are more easily found by potential Affiliates who search for programs based on products as opposed to Merchant name.
One easy way Merchants can keep the products up-to-date is to set up automatic uploads via FTP. If you are interested in setting up FTP access for your program, just submit a ticket from inside your account with the static IP address from where the feed will be uploaded.
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Product Datafeed Best PracticesIf you work as an Affiliate Manager for a retailer on ShareASale, you’ve probably seen the word “Datafeed” before, and may be wondering … What is that!? Datafeeds account for a full 5-10% of all conversions tracked on ShareASale!
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Datafeeds In ActionI mentioned datafeeds in my “5 Tools Every Affiliate Should be Using” post, so let’s take a look at a couple creative uses of product links from other Affiliates on the network.
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Tip of the Day: Affiliate RecruitmentIncentivizing potential new Affiliates with a time-sensitive bonus offer is an effective catalyst for activation. With any recruitment email, the end goal is to make them feel an urgency to join your program, so think of inventive ways to get them on board.
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Oleg says
September 29, 2015 at 8:59 pmWhat about Google affiliate filter (penalization)?
In case of datafeed many websites will display same items, same descriptions – almost 100% duplicates.
Brian Littleton says
September 30, 2015 at 11:31 amOleg,
The datafeed is just a tool for you to use – when building your sites you can provide your own content, and use the feed items as you wish for posts. I would agree with you that you don’t want to just create something that everyone else has, you’ll want to add your own content and value.