CJ and Databases

Do they offer them

[bateman_ap]

Hi, never having dabbled in affilaite marketing I am keen to test out a few bits.

However just was wondering do people like Commission Junction's clients allow you to connect to a database to create product pages or even give you a CSV file to download each week with updated product links or are you limited to hard coding links and pages?

[roscoepico]

bateman_ap, CJ has quite a few plublishers that offer data feeds at this time. These tend to be in .csv format and include the following:

price, description, link to image, etc.

Your best bet is to contact each program directly through the CJ interface and inquire about data feeds.

MP

[Catalyst]

Bateman,

CJ offers numerous datafeed from lots of merchants but they charge for their feed unless you generate $10,000 a month in commissions. So since you are new you would probably have to pay $250. That's why I had a free private feed developed outside of CJ for one of my merchants, so even new affiliate could get access as no charge. Im glad I did because since we started offering this our sales have quadrupled in 3 months.

I know alot of other CJ merchants that offer free private feeds as well in fact, I started a thread on another forum for merchants that offer free feeds to list their features. It's too long to post here and I think it's against the other forums TOS to repost it.

But there are a lot of CJ merchants offering feeds through CJ and privately, it just takes some digging to find them.
If you have a particlular product niche you can search for product links in CJ, find the ones that offer a CJ feed and then contact the merchants directly to see if they have a private feed available also.

Hope this helps.

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