Category: Affiliate Networks
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Affiliate Feed API vs. CSV: Which Is Easier to Maintain?
At first glance, CSV looks low-maintenance: fetch a file on a schedule, parse rows, map columns, and load the database. For small, stable catalogs updated once a day, that pipeline can stay pleasantly boring. The strain appears when the catalog grows or changes frequently. CSV is usually batch-oriented, so each refresh means downloading the whole…
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Affiliate Networks with Product Feeds for Scalable Content Sites
A site can publish 50 new roundup pages a month and still leak revenue when widgets show yesterday’s price, dead SKUs, or three conflicting titles for the same item. At that point, feed hygiene stops being a convenience and becomes infrastructure.
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How Affiliate Networks Work: What to Know Before Applying Anywhere
For merchants, a network solves several hard problems at once. It brings a ready-made pool of publishers, standard tracking links, contract templates, tax paperwork, and payment handling. Many also provide fraud screening, duplicate-order checks, and compliance monitoring for coupon abuse, trademark bidding, or incentivized traffic. For publishers, the appeal is just as practical: one login…
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How Often Affiliate Feeds Are Updated and Why It Matters
Some merchants push near-real-time APIs for price and availability, with changes visible in minutes. Others generate hourly deltas, nightly full exports, or manual files that appear only when someone remembers. A feed labeled daily may therefore mean anything from a predictable 2 a.m. rebuild to an inconsistent upload that slips by a day or two.…
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Serge
Serge is an affiliate marketer with 20 years in the field and a WordPress plugin developer. He writes about building, ranking, and monetizing affiliate sites — drawing on tools he’s actually built and used, not just reviewed.
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