- Image via CrunchBase
Commission Junction (CJ) is one of the most popular affiliate networks on the Internet. Unknown to many, the ValueClick organisation allow affiliates to make use of datafeeds for online advertising in addition to other available marketing services.
Datafeeds, in Commission Junction, are product catalogs which are made up of a group of product links that share the same advertising ID. They allow tracking and reporting of performance-related data so as to make updating products and offers by Website owners or publishers a lot easier. As a result, whenever an advertiser makes changes to an existing catalog, those changes can be reflected in a subsequent publisher feed.
Although in most cases an advertiser will have a single datafeed containing all their links, CJ offers free multiple datafeed to its publishers. Presently, these feeds are available in TAB, CSV, PIPE, XML and EXCEL formats for a trial period. Although publishers are allowed to customise their feed to contain product data (in any format and sequence) from any advertiser they have subscribed to, customisation is not possible with XML formats.
How to Set-up/Customise Product Feed
Setting up a feed in Commission Junction is easy. Click on Contact Us and select Ask A Question. Choose Data Transfer (Publishers) category and either Data Transfer Requests or Product Catalog as the sub-category.
How to Access Product Feed
Product feeds can either be pushed to your FTP server on a scheduled basis or pulled from an FTP server account created for you by Commission Junction. Follow the instructions that are sent to your email once your Feed has been set-up to gain full access.
How to Cancel Product Feed
Cancelling a datafeed in Commission Junction could not have been any easier. Publishers may cancel at anytime by using the Contact Us interface and Ask A Question feature.
EXTRA: How to Display Product Feed (in Joomla)
Displaying a product feed may not always be as easy as it seems. However, I found this great Joomla extension called Affiliate Datafeeds by Bram Brambring. See an example of Affiliate Datafeeds in use here. While it was a little difficult to set-up at first, Bram was always willing to help and almost always responded to emails immediately.
Talking Point
Do you have any previous experiences of using or displaying product datafeeds?
22 Comments
Leave a Reply
Leave a Reply
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Pingback: Tweets that mention Using Data-Feeds in CJ Affiliate Marketing
UK Webmaster Forum
May 11, 2010 at 5:13 am
Good post, thanks or sharing way to display Product Feed in Joomla!
.-= UK Webmaster Forum´s last blog ..Domains of the future? =-.
Healthy Cafe
May 11, 2010 at 4:17 pm
thanks for sharing… I need this
Christenening Invitations
May 11, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Incredible information about upcoming product and I am sure people must have get impressed with this post.
aspire
May 13, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Thanks for share this information.It will be useful for most of us.
.-= aspire´s last blog ..Acer Timelinex Test Charts =-.
Admin
May 17, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Thanks for your contribution guys. Glad you found the information useful.
Domain name registration
May 18, 2010 at 7:06 am
Nice information on data-feed, thanks for sharing, CJ is one of the best affiliate marketing on the web.
Pingback: Marketing Leads
aircraft tools supplier
July 7, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Your site contains much other information that gives more knowledge and many more ideas about the topics you have given in your site.
Fieldsheer
July 17, 2010 at 7:27 am
it is very informative posts and with great resource.
SEO India
August 18, 2010 at 8:32 am
Hey Admin, thanks for sharing your post with us.
Shoei Helmets
August 22, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Im not going to say what everyone else has already said, but I do want to comment on your knowledge of the topic. Youre truly well-informed. I cant believe how much of this I just wasnt aware of. Thank you for bringing more information to this topic for me. Im truly grateful and really impressed.
Direct Mail Marketing
August 31, 2010 at 4:49 am
Very nice post. Commission Junction affiliate marketing is new to me but of this post I’ve learned a lot from it. Thanks for sharing useful information.
Cellphone Reviews
August 31, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Hi Can you make tutorial how to it work at wordpress blog?
Online Stores
December 3, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Hey, I was just looking for this info. I want to add quite a few datafeeds from CJ on to the website that I have quoted above. Thanks once again.
Online Deals and Coupons
January 4, 2011 at 1:36 am
Hey, just the info. that I was looking for…A 1000 thanks for this post.
Olivia
May 4, 2011 at 5:59 pm
A great information regarding the affiliate marketing concept . I will foreword this info who is looking for the information.
sd
July 3, 2011 at 1:48 pm
thanks for sharing… I need this
Marc Rasmussen
August 11, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Great information. I’m dying to use this however it would have been nice if you included a tutorial regarding this data feeds. It’s new to us and i can’t find any decent tutorial online. Thanks
Fas
August 25, 2011 at 12:44 pm
It’s always refreshing reading good blog, Well with your permission allow me to grab your rss feed to keep up to date with any new incoming post. Thanks a million and please keep up the good work.
Tas
September 1, 2011 at 11:22 am
I ‘m using CJ only for data feeding. Its service is the best and suitable for me. I still can’t believe more merchants aren’t offering datafeeds in RSS format for affiliates yet. CJ is the only service provider which recently announced tips on exactly how to do it, so now merchants who have been afraid to take the plunge can do it more easily.
W3Origin
October 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm
This is an amazing post to read, extremely effective post.