Category: Affiliate Product Catalogs
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Match Products Without GTINs When Feed Data Is Incomplete
A normalized brand + normalized MPN is usually the best non-GTIN identity candidate. Normalization removes presentation noise without changing meaning: trim spaces, standardize case, collapse repeated punctuation, and map known brand aliases to one approved form. For example, ACME Tools, Acme-Tools, and acme tools can resolve to ACME TOOLS; XR-200/BLK and xr 200 blk may…
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How to Match Products Across Feeds Without Creating Duplicates
A match should mean the same purchasable variant: the same brand, model or manufacturer part number, variant attributes, and selling unit. A blue 500 ml bottle is not automatically the same item as the red 500 ml bottle; a two-pack is not the same as one bottle. Separate the common look-alikes Listing relationship Match as…
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Organizing Affiliate Product Data Before a Catalog Becomes Unmanageable
A catalog does not need a complex version-control system to be safer. It does need enough history to answer a basic question: why does this field say that? For every import, keep the source label (such as a retailer, network, or CSV filename) and the import date. Retain the feed’s value separately from the value…
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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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