Dear Affiliates,

Just want to inform you all that Motorcycle Superstore will discontinue their affiliate program with LinkShare on 6/27/08. Below is the email that I received from the affiliate manager:

" Dear Motorcycle Superstore Affiliate,

Motorcycle Superstore would like to thank you for your participation in our affiliate program. Unfortunately, we have made a business decision to suspend our Affiliate Program with LinkShare.

We will pay for commissions earned on Net Orders received through a affiliate link based on the terms of our Agreement, plus any earned outstanding payments currently owned to affiliates. Affiliates sales commissions will not accrue after June 27, 2008. If you have changed your contact information, please update your profile at LinkShare so you can receive your final commission check in a timely manner.

Pursuant to our Affiliate Agreement between Motorcycle Superstore and you, this shall serve as our formal written notice to terminate our Motorcycle Superstore Affiliate Agreement. Per our Agreement, you are required to remove any and all banners, buttons, text links, product images and store fronts that link to Motorcycle Superstore by End of Business Day June 27, 2008 EST. If you have any questions regarding this manner, please contact: shane.irons@motorcycle-superstore.com.

Once again, we thank you for supporting the Motorcycle Superstore Affiliate Program and appreciate your compliance with these termination provisions. You will be notified once our program will be reactivated. "

I will remove the program from DFF on 6/27/08

Thank you!

We have made available a new data feed / web services delivery method via JSON.

JSON stands for Javascript Object Notation, originally meant to be used for AJAX, but it is becoming more popular as an alternative for XML.

Integrating DFF database via JSON will give you the best combination of flexibility and speed.

JSON is easier to use when the dynamic language such as PHP you use supports JSON decoding.

We will provide you with the data in RAW JSON encoded format (can be compressed with GZIP or not compressed) without any HTML mark-up allowing you to use your own content, design and layout around the returned JSON data.

Once you have received the JSON data, you will not be able to use it right away because it is encoded and may be compressed (if you have choosen to compress the data). Then you have to use whatever your server scripting language support to decode the JSON data into multi-dimensional arrays.

See the JSON Example Page and JSON + PHP integration example for more information.

I am trully disappointed by Performics for not giving us the actual approval or blessing for DataFeedFile.com to be a third party data feed provider for their affiliates. It is now an almost 2 years process of trying to get approval. We have gotten close but nothing ever come up.

If we are asking for payment or compensation from Perfomics, that would be another issue, but we are not asking for anything from them but a sheet of paper stating they recognize DataFeedFile.com and they understand what we do. That is all.

Anyhow, I have already changed the Performics Publisher ID entry to accomodate their new tracking link format. The old Performics Tracking Links only have lid=_____ which does not allow easy replacement of different affiliate IDs, which DFF needs to do. Now the new Performics Tracking Link have &pubid=________ which contain a unique 17-digits Performics Affiliate ID identifier followed by 2100....

Here is instruction directly from their email:

Quote:
Please verify your unique 17-digit Publisher ID 21000000000123456 is correct and check your links before publishing. When you are logged in, your Publisher ID can be found in the bottom right corner of the ConnectCommerce interface.

of course you have to replace the 123456 with your own number.

DFF also have OrangeLinks merchant special and deals implemented which will add to our Deals Database. So if Performics would hurry up and get their legal team to say GO, then we will be able to move forward with Performics Merchants.

New web site design with more fresh content on www.DataFeedFile.com.

The purpose of this redesign is to:

1. Keep up to date with newer Web 2.0 designs. The previous look was getting old.
2. Provide more integrity and branding for DataFeedFile.com.
3. Provide statistics of our community, data feed database and project.
4. Quickly glance at news, changes or updates.
5. Quickly glance at forum posts.
6. Quickly glance at recent wiki changes.
7. Quickly glance at recent knowledge base or support tickets submitted.

I hope you all like the new look.

Andrew

Dear All:

I have improved the PHP page title script.

both the DFFPhp_title_search and DFFPhp_title_search2 now will now show the existing product short description and also we added product manufacturer name + manufacturer model / series + manufacturer part number.

If manufacturer part number and manufacturer name is the same, it will not duplicate it.

Forgot... UPC and/or ISBN has been added also whenever they are available.

Cheers,

Andrew

Hello everyone...

I just want to give some update on the recent improvements at DataFeedFile.com.

1. Speed and Stability... it is better now... speed has been increased about at least 30% for price comparison searching and product searches.

2. Shopzilla Publisher Program using PPC is still in testing status. I believe we are somewhere between alpha and beta stage. Why is it going so slow? Well we have to test with all other merchants product data feed refresh. Meaning everytime we have bugs related to data from Shopzilla Affiliate Program we have to wait until next search server data generation is done to examine the result. It is time consuming but we are almost there. Please test Shopzilla merchants data and let us know how to improve.

3. We have programmers working on many different sections of DFF, first we would like to finish some abruptly interrupted project from about 1.5+ years ago. Those projects were, Book Search and Price Comparison tool (almost done). New and Improved Deal Coupon Rebate Script (almost done), Diamond Price Comparison script (about 2 weeks away). These are the immediate features to be released within 2 - 3 weeks.

4. Afterwards... we are looking into several new shopping niches, such as eBay (the auction) integration to the PSE Price Search Engine and PPC (Product Price Comparison) possibly even with Auction Snipping capability (maybe). Another programmer has started on Ticket Price Comparison (stubhub, ticketmaster, etc...) Another programmer will be starting on Travel (flights, hotel, car rental, etc...).

So exciting and new innovative features are coming to DFF... Keep developing and improving you site.... We will do the same here.

Thank you

Andrew

Dear All,

We are have Firewalls issue. Our HD has died. We are trying to restore it right now. It takes about 30' to fix it.

Please bear with us. Thank you for your understanding and patience.


DFF Staff

We have created a new docuementation wiki for DFF. You can check it out at:

http://wiki.datafeedfile.com

It still needs more info, so I encourage everyone, I really mean it, 'everyone' to fill in and contribute to our wiki.

Thanks in advance.

Dear Affiliates,

As you notice, the Shopzilla affiliate merchants has drop to 629 merchants only at datafeedfile.com. It has something to do with the download, for some reason, the Shopzilla publisher's merchants' feed download only half of the merchants.

We're currently working on it to fix it. Also, please note, that if the download fail next time, we will not update the server.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.