Providing a web hosting service was an idea given by one of our successful affiliate.

He would like to have faster access and reduced latency to get HTML content and/or query DFF' web services.
He said "speed is a big factor when it comes to shopping online, if a page takes more than 30 seconds, the shopper is clicking out...".

The added benefit of DFF providing your web site hosting is so that your website's request to DFF database servers will NOT have to travel through the internet. Your web site will request and receive data from DFF servers within <3ms latency usually.

Being that the DFF hosting server will be within our internal network, larger data and search results (which are possible when using XML / JSON) are much faster on our Gigabit network.

We are still testing but would like to get the word out to our affiliates about this upcoming service which will be available by May 1, 2009.

Many Thanks...

--Andrew

Selecting which merchants to use with DFF tools can take a long time,

We have made this process easier for you especially if you are selecting all merchants from Shopzilla Affiliate Program.

Under the Affiliate Login / Merchants Tab, you can now MASS SELECT by category or affiliate network/program.

To access this feature, look for a link called on the left navigation column:

Mass Use / Not Use
By Network
By Category

Using the Mass Use by Network, you can select or deselect all merchants in your account from a particular Affiliate Network.

Using the Mass Use by Category, you can select or deselect all merchants in your account from a particular Category.

Again as an example, since Shopzilla merchants are all inclusive (when you get approved from Shopzilla affiliate program you are approved for all Shopzilla's merchants in their program), you should do the same at DFF, just select to use ALL Shopzilla Merchants.

Next improvement on the merchants tab will be to import / export to tab delimited file....

Thanks

--Andrew