Affiliate Marketing Shopping Development Tools

Many of the large affiliate networks have now developed their own development tools which make it much easier and faster for the webmaster to create their own shopping site. Many of these tools aim to make it easier for affiliates to leverage the csv or xml feeds provided by the affiliate networks to create their own data-driven website.

A number of third parties have also developed shopping software to use the csv and xml feeds from the networks. Please note we have listed these sites for your convenience, but as we don't use these tools ourselves their listing here does not mean we are endorsing them. Please do your own research before signing up.

Shopping Development Tools from Affiliate Networks

ShopWindow Toolset from Affiliate Window
This technology provides an easy way to make a database of over 3.5 million shopping products available from your site. Choose from Client Software file templates, a Web Services API, or the ShopWindow Direct referral links. Join Affiliate Window to find out more or view the live site at shopwindow.com. The ShopWindow Toolset also includes Content Widgets.

How to Get Awin's Create-A-Feed Products into your MySQL Database

Web Services from Affiliate Window.

Affiliate Window now also has a Product Selector Widget for items such as cameras, TVs and satnavs. This tool is powered by PrimaStar and involves a revenue split with them. It's available through the Awin Apps section of the Awin interface.

PaidOnResults.com
Offers Content Units that can be cut and paste into a site to automatically display a merchant's products, as well as the Content Creator tool that allows webmasters to create their own unique Content Units. See www.contentunits.com for more.

buy.at Content Engine
An innovative application designed to be a simple method of including up-to-date, dynamic product content to your website. buy.at’s ContentEngine has been engineered so that every time a merchant changes any of their product details on their database, your ContentUnits will be immediately updated.
Content Engine Blog at http://buyat.wordpress.com/
FAQs at http://buyat.wordpress.com/category/faqs/

Buy.at PHP/MySQL Guide to Utilising their Feeds

Buy.at Affiliate Technologies Lab - Showcases the technologies buy.at has available for affiliate marketing.

Buy.at ShopCentral - Allows you to create a dynamic store via buy.at's API.

Buy.at OfferCentral Voucher Code System

Webgains
iSense Ad Creator - Understands the context of a web page and displays relevant products. Will automatically update as the content of a page changes and as more products become available.

Amazon Associates UK
http://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/
Has a range of link building tools, widgets such as the 3D Carousel and Slideshow, as well as Amazon aStore.

LinkShare Webservices
The LinkShare network offers a webservice which returns a cacheable XML file, with the options being:
- Query
- Number of Products
- Page Number
- Merchant ID
- Sort by Price (asc or desc)

Shopping Development Tools from Third Parties

Please note we have listed these sites for your convenience, but as we don't use these tools ourselves their listing here does not mean we are endorsing them. Please do your own research before signing up.

pricetapestry.com
A PHP and MySQL price comparison engine based on Magic Parser that allows you to create a price comparison site from data feeds (see example Price Tapestry sites). There's also a separate site out there specialising in Price Tapestry Templates.

affilistore.com
Allows affiliates to easily build price comparison websites directly from multiple datafeeds.

Convert A Feed
Third party software for extracting a datafeed from any network or independent merchant in .csv format and creating instant websites. The software stores the datafeed in MySQL and cascades the datafeed to receiving websites.

Datafeed Studio
Converts your merchant datafeeds into dynamic websites. Can be used to create price comparison sites, niche online stores and standalone product compare pages.

MySQL Productfeed Script Creator (from PageRank10)
http://www.affiliatescript.co.uk/mysql_productfeed_script_creator/

EasyContentUnits.com
Solution allowing the easy creation of a content unit showing relevant products from multiple affiliate networks. See the site showcase. Note that a % of your affiliate commissions is taken for providing the service.

Data Feed to Wordpress Post Tool
Free tool that converts CSV feeds to Wordpress posts.

Awin Productserve API to Wordpress Post Tool
Tool which gives you a self-updating website by interfacing with the Awin Productserve API and displaying products via Wordpress, see example.

Wordpress Plugin for the Linkshare Merchandiser Webservices from PanFashion.co.uk

popshops.com
An affiliate network feed aggregator that helps you build a store and provides a data feed API.

StoreBurst.co.uk
Affiliate store creator. Offers a simple way to get an affiliate store running on a domain, but note that 25% of your commission is taken by StoreBurst for providing the service.

Epik.com
Offers a domain monetisation platform.

Associate-O-Matic
Builds you a custom Amazon Associate Store.

Easy API
Allows you to build auto-updating product lists for your website without you needing technical knowledge.

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