Converseon Affiliate- Data Feed Solutions

If you are an affiliate and decide to build website that will feature hundreds or even thousands of products, one of the way to go about it is to utilize data feeds from your merchants. Unfortunately in order to build the site on your own you will need some programing skills, knowledge of MySQL or similar data bases in conjunction of knowledge of server side scripting such as PHP. These are not difficult to learn and if you can, learning them can greatly enhance your affiliate websites.

If you decide to take my “path”, which includes of looking at programing as a big “monster” that is conquered only by few chosen ones, there are still solutions for you out there. Even if you do not have these specific programing skills, as long as you know how to copy and paste HTML code into your website, you will be able to create dynamic websites that will feature hundreds and even thousands of products.

In the past I wrote briefly about products/services that I have used in the past to build my affiliate sites: DataFeedFile, GoldenCan and FeedShare. While with both DataFeedFile and GoldenCan, the wast majority of merchants participate on so called 4^th click basis, which means that you loose every 4^th outgoing click from your website. FeedShare on the other hand is providing data feed solutions at absolutely no cost to affiliate. You “keep” all clicks.

Converseon Affiliate offers very similar solutions to what FeedShare is offering as well, in fact they have one common merchant- My Wines Direct. Here are the list of solutions offered by Converseon Affiliate when it comes to particular merchants:

EZ Store-This method allows you to feature hundreds of products on your affiliate website by simply adding a line or two of JavaScript, PHP or ASP/ASP.net code. If your decide to utilize this method you need to remember that the data displayed on your website via JavaScript code will not be indexed by the search engines.

PHP Store Front– this a pre-build website for you. All you need is to upload several PHP files to your website in order to utilize this solution. Your web hosting provider should support PHP 4.1 or newer in order for you to be able to use this method. You will also need to be able to modify certain settings so your website fill display products from correct merchant.

Raw Data Feeds– Finally Converseon Affiliate provides raw data feeds (either XML or CSV file) for your custom solution.

I have not used Converseon Affiliate services yet. The only merchant that I am affiliate with is My Wines Direct and I currently use FeedShare data feed solutions for My Wines Direct. But based on what I have experienced with FeedShare, Converseon Affiliate is a website worth to keep our eyes on. I hope that both of these sites will be able to feature and offer data feeds from larger number of merchants. If you are an affiliate for a merchant that sells hundreds of products you can always write your affiliate manager recommending either FeedShare or Converseon Affiliate.