Geno on June 7th, 2010

In case you haven’t heard, the Zappos’ PATRON (Public API for Translating Request to Object Notation), originally announced two months ago, is already in early beta phase, and developers can start playing with it. Shopping APIs are great for affiliate marketers that are technologically capable of putting them to use, creating online stores of their [...]

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Geno on October 10th, 2009

As I was looking for a coder to help one of our clients (her store is running on Yahoo Merchant Solutions) put together an affiliate product feed, I ran across a YourStoreWizards’ shopping feed service. I must admit, I have never heard of them before, and was hesitant to recommend them, but I did mention [...]

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Geno on May 15th, 2009

First things first, and we should start with a definition. What is an product feed, or data feed? Any data feed is essentially a file (.CSV, .XML, .XLS or any other type) that lists all your product information, such as product ID, product name, description, price, stock availability, etc. The format of the affiliate data [...]

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