Do you know what local shopping is?

It is the newest and hottest trend for online shopping,
but instead of finding online stores, it helps you find products in your local stores nearby you!

Want to see what it looks like?

http://www.luckylocal.com/search.php...onvection+Oven

See how it searches for products within your area?

Now that you got the idea, how would you like to have that functionality on your website and earn CPA / CPC just like you do on DataFeedFile.com?

Yes, it is possible, check it out here:

http://www.commissionlocal.com

There is a 1 year free trial if you sign-up before end of month (Jan 2011).

No this is not an advertisement, DFF is a partner with CommissionLocal.com and LuckyLocal.com.

Thanks

Dear Everyone,

DFF now support additional tracking variable (Placement ID) support for Shopzilla Publisher Program.

Shopzilla's implementation of additional tracking is a bit different than the affiliate networks and it is not as flexible. You have to SET Shopzilla Placement IDs from your Shopzilla Publisher Account and use those by appending &subid=<> behind your DFF clickthrough URL or in the calling URL when getting content from DFF.

For more information about Shopzilla's Placement ID support on DFF please read the WIKI document above DFF SUBID support. Shopzilla special circumstances are located towards the end of the wiki document.

http://wiki.datafeedfile.com/dffSubID

Regards,

--Andrew

Hello Everyone,

DFF now support SUBID for Amazon Associate Program.

Amazon's implementation of additional tracking is a bit different than the affiliate networks and it is not as flexible. You have to generate additional (unique) Amazon Tracking IDs and use those by appending &subid=<> behind your DFF clickthrough URL or in the calling URL when getting content from DFF.

For more information about Amazon's Tracking ID support on DFF please read the WIKI document above DFF SUBID support. Amazon special circumstances are located towards the end of the wiki document.

http://wiki.datafeedfile.com/dffSubID

Regards,

--Andrew

DFF's Product Showcase WordPress Plugin is now available! Like the Featured Product plugin, you get price comparison directly in your blog. The difference? You can display an entire showcase with as many products as you wish, with an overview, pictures, details, and prices! Check it out here

We can now host your website! Why host with us? Because when you host your site on the same network as our web services, delay, latency, and data transfer time are practically eliminated. Plus, we're cheaper than most plans out there. Read more about our hosting services here

DFF's first version of the Featured Products WordPress Plugin is now available! With this plugin you (affiliate / blogger) can easily insert a product into your WordPress Post or Page. This plugin is very easy to use; it will add a DFF button right on the Post / Page editor toolbar which will automatically insert a WordPress shortcode within your Post and show the product in the middle of your blog.

The Featured Products WordPress Plugin will generate search engine indexable HTML code (not javascript) which means the content will be SEO friendly. The plugin delivers the product image, title, description (optional), list of stores selling the product (number of stores is adjustable) with affiliate trackable links.

Read more about the DFF Featured Products WordPress Plugin here...
http://wordpress.datafeedfile.com
Continue reading "Price Comparison in your WordPress blog!"

1. Products Showcase: Allows affiliates to show multiple products in a grid / list layout format. The Showcase Plugin was designed to fill a large amount of space on a web page and display an attractive selection of products with images, a brief title, the number of stores selling each product and the lowest price.

2. Price Comparison: The full Price Comparison WordPress Plugin will contain almost all the different shopping tools available on DFF. Using this Price Comparison plugin, an affiliate would be able to create a fully featured price comparison shopping site using WordPress. This plugin adds functionality to your blog and we still highly encourage all affiliates to blog and add their own unique content as added value instead of just deploying general price comparison web sites.

DataFeedFile is proud to announce our first ever WordPress plug-in! We plan to unveil this beauty some time next week.

What will it do, you ask? It will allow you to put a product feed in the middle of your blog. That way, you can display products in the middle of your content. If you’re an expert on a product, or just simply want to discuss a product, this plug-in is for you.

Think of it as a Google ad, but instead of text or banners and pennies on the click, you get the product image, price comparison, and commission on sales!
Please check our blog, or follow us on Twitter for more frequent updates, and be the first to know when we roll out our WordPress plug-in!

DataFeedFile has just officially launched our very own freelance division. What does this mean? We have full-time programmers here for web development and programming! Now we can help customize your price comparison website to your heart’s content.

Please check out our portfolio page to learn more about this new service. Space is limited, so please contact us soon for a free quote!

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

For increased security, DFF will now recommend using the function file_get_contents() or cURL instead of include();

Remote inclusion of remote PHP file or any remote file is a security hole in PHP. It has worked well for DFF for almost 3 years because the files affiliates are including from DFF are not malicious. Nevertheless it is not best practice.

Instead of using:

include("http://www.datafeedfile.com/some_dff_script.php?affid=...&".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);

DFF recommends change to:

echo file_get_contents("http://www.datafeedfile.com/some_dff_script.php?affid=....&".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);

or you can use the cURL library/extension like this:

$ch = curl_init("http://www.datafeedfile.com/some_dff_script.php?affid=....&".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); if(($DFF_output = curl_exec($ch))===FALSE) die("Error getting content from DFF"); else echo $DFF_output; curl_close($ch);

We will create a new wiki documentation page to explain these new methods:
http://wiki.datafeedfile.com/dffRemoteInclude

Dear Affiliates,

Since there have been increasing demand to use DFF with a flat monthly fee, we have just made this service available to the public.

A flat fee monthly service will basically eliminate the 4th click sharing in exchange for a flat monthly fee.

http://billing.datafeedfile.com/cart.php?gid=2

The payment can be accepted by Paypal and/or Google Checkout using credit cards, etc...

Please keep in mind that this is a continual monthly subscription service. There is no contract. You can cancel service and return to 4th click shared commission model at any time.

Hello All,

We have created many web sites for DFF affiliates on the side to test our PHP Library / Framework which uses our JSON web services.

Using JSON / XML allows programmer to be very flexible and have full control of the output. Using JSON / XML does require a higher learning curve and/or possibly an experience programmer. But we believe the result is worth every minute spent.

Because creating a fully working price comparison site is quite difficult even when using DataFeedFile.com's web services, we have created the DFF PHP Client Library which has been tested many times for the past 6 months.

Here is a link to DFF's first fully working Price Comparison Shopping sample web site using our own DFF PHP Client Library:

http://sample-phpapi.datafeedfile.com

The above example website is a niche (vertical market) for pets supply specific products. But the basic concept is there to make a general price comparison shopping site.

The entire web site can be downloaded from a compressed ZIP file and only require modification of the DFF/DFF_config.php (main DFF configuration file) to make it work.

Our first example is only available for PHP programmers right now.

The entire source code, picture, icon, CSS, etc are all in the ZIP file. You are free to change and customize to your own liking. You may even rework it and use it to develop other people's web site. The only restriction is that you have to leave the credits declaration to give credit back to DataFeedFile.com.

Other niche price comparison sites we have developed are:

http://freelance.datafeedfile.com/comparessd
http://freelance.datafeedfile.com/icomparenetbooks

If you are looking for a Deal / Coupon site, we have an Open Source coupon sample site also here:

http://sample.datafeedfile.com/demo/dse/

Please post any question or bug at our Suppor Ticket system.

Regards,

Andrew -@- DataFeedFile.com
( Founder ) - Affiliate Price Comparison Shopping Tools

DFF's version 1 XML feed for price search engine was started when we did not have much experience creating web services / API.

Since then we have created JSON web services and discovered our XML feed was lacking a lot of information, so we decided to write a version 2 of our XML feed. To use version 2, you simply can replace the file name xml_search.php to xml_search2.php.

Please review the version 2 XML formats and adapt / upgrade as necessary.

If you find any bug or problem in version 1 or 2, please open support ticket and we will address those problems immediately.

Thank you

Andrew