Comments on: Affiliate Datafeeds and Duplicate Content http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/ Never Mess With a Woman Who Can Pull Rank Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:10:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: SEOGirl http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81929 SEOGirl Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:32:22 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81929 Hi Rae, Thanks for sharing this invaluable piece of information with us. I have been handling a bunch of affiliate sites for quite some time now and have been planning to promote the sites by starting PPC campaigns ( I have little experience about it ). I am not quite sure about whether I should go ahead with it. Will that really make a diff.? Also, I will be looking forward to read your answer to Paul's query about how to host the images on our own server. Thanks in advance. Kirti Anand Sharma Hi Rae,
Thanks for sharing this invaluable piece of information with us. I have been handling a bunch of affiliate sites for quite some time now and have been planning to promote the sites by starting PPC campaigns ( I have little experience about it ). I am not quite sure about whether I should go ahead with it. Will that really make a diff.? Also, I will be looking forward to read your answer to Paul’s query about how to host the images on our own server.

Thanks in advance.

Kirti Anand Sharma

]]> By: Monty http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81928 Monty Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:54:16 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81928 I second PaulG's question. It can't be manually, its impossible. It has to be some sort of a custom software/script you built, right Rae ? I second PaulG’s question. It can’t be manually, its impossible. It has to be some sort of a custom software/script you built, right Rae ?

]]> By: PaulG http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81692 PaulG Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:19:35 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81692 Hi Rae, This might be a slightly stupid question but for merchants with huge feeds, do you download each image manually or do you have software to do this for you? Cheers, Paul Hi Rae,

This might be a slightly stupid question but for merchants with huge feeds, do you download each image manually or do you have software to do this for you?

Cheers,

Paul

]]> By: Franchises UK http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81683 Franchises UK Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:46:19 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81683 @Rae In response to your last comment@Jamie... I've been building a couple of affiliate type sites and had been relying (probably naively) on the honesty of the affiliates. I like the idea of redirecting through a folder for all the benefits you describe especially the fact that you can count the clicks that way and then compare to what the affiliate says. Will look at setting this up... I suppose if theres a lot of affiliate links, to have a small php script with the urls in a database table that can also log the clicks would be the best way to go... Thanks, Joe @Rae

In response to your last comment@Jamie… I’ve been building a couple of affiliate type sites and had been relying (probably naively) on the honesty of the affiliates. I like the idea of redirecting through a folder for all the benefits you describe especially the fact that you can count the clicks that way and then compare to what the affiliate says. Will look at setting this up… I suppose if theres a lot of affiliate links, to have a small php script with the urls in a database table that can also log the clicks would be the best way to go…

Thanks, Joe

]]> By: Ed http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81675 Ed Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:09:25 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81675 Hi Rae, I'm very much interested in using datafeeds from different merchants for price comparison purposes. Do you know of some good resources to get started? Tutorials that you may have learned from to use and incorporate datafeeds to create a price comparison site? Your input is very much appreciated! :) Thanks! Hi Rae,

I’m very much interested in using datafeeds from different merchants for price comparison purposes.

Do you know of some good resources to get started?
Tutorials that you may have learned from to use and incorporate datafeeds to create a price comparison site?

Your input is very much appreciated! :)

Thanks!

]]> By: Rae Hoffman http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81652 Rae Hoffman Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:39:34 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81652 @Jamie... I don't trust the affiliates to track the clicks coming through my links. So we run everything through redirects in a folder like /send/ so we can track how many times the link has been clicked on our site and then match that up (or not) with the numbers the affiliate companies show us. In addition, by running them through a redirect that is in a blocked off folder, we don't send a bunch of juice to the affiliate merchant to help their link development process (they can do their own). Lastly, the links being to our own internal site and not to the affiliate merchant allows for another small signal of differentiation. Hope this helps. @Jamie… I don’t trust the affiliates to track the clicks coming through my links. So we run everything through redirects in a folder like /send/ so we can track how many times the link has been clicked on our site and then match that up (or not) with the numbers the affiliate companies show us. In addition, by running them through a redirect that is in a blocked off folder, we don’t send a bunch of juice to the affiliate merchant to help their link development process (they can do their own). Lastly, the links being to our own internal site and not to the affiliate merchant allows for another small signal of differentiation. Hope this helps.

]]> By: ryan evans http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81610 ryan evans Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:29:28 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81610 rae, nicely done once again. rae, nicely done once again.

]]> By: Search Engine Fan http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81604 Search Engine Fan Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:30:41 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81604 Rae, it's good advice to use ones own brain and to figure out, how to add value to a feed. But it's like serious juggling. On the one hand one cannot individualize the feed data seriously, because risks in trade law or simply because of the efforts if the products change in future. On the other hand one wants to profit from the feed data in an as automatic as possible way. Left in the air is the good idea how to add value. And none of this may drop... Thanks and cheers, Mart Rae, it’s good advice to use ones own brain and to figure out, how to add value to a feed. But it’s like serious juggling. On the one hand one cannot individualize the feed data seriously, because risks in trade law or simply because of the efforts if the products change in future. On the other hand one wants to profit from the feed data in an as automatic as possible way. Left in the air is the good idea how to add value. And none of this may drop…

Thanks and cheers,

Mart

]]> By: Ed Company http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81587 Ed Company Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:12:11 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81587 "you could end up knocking your own site out of the search results for your terms" - I've seen that happen, then when you explain why to a company they get mad at the affiliate, when all that affiliate is doing is using what they gave them! “you could end up knocking your own site out of the search results for your terms” – I’ve seen that happen, then when you explain why to a company they get mad at the affiliate, when all that affiliate is doing is using what they gave them!

]]> By: Brandon Tran http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-datafeeds-duplicate-content/#comment-81504 Brandon Tran Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:47:22 +0000 http://www.sugarrae.com/?p=2904#comment-81504 Duplicate content has always been a concern of mine. During the earlier days of the internet I worked for companies who duplicated content like there was no tomorrow. Well that fell through and there are multiple domains that now all point back to the main site. It actually worked at one point in time though. Back then you could gain extra market share by using that tactic. Now it's a complete turn around. I make it a point to educate my clients about duplicating articles and text and that it really needs to be unique, well written, quality content. From an affiliate marketing perspective it should be applied too. All area's require this kind of attention! Duplicate content has always been a concern of mine. During the earlier days of the internet I worked for companies who duplicated content like there was no tomorrow. Well that fell through and there are multiple domains that now all point back to the main site. It actually worked at one point in time though. Back then you could gain extra market share by using that tactic. Now it’s a complete turn around. I make it a point to educate my clients about duplicating articles and text and that it really needs to be unique, well written, quality content. From an affiliate marketing perspective it should be applied too. All area’s require this kind of attention!

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