The Green Directory Eco-Store set up using datafeedr

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First Datafeedr affiliate store set up – on The Green Directory

Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Domain Names, Eco Stores, My Travel Extras, online shopping, Travel Accessories; Tagged as: affiliate site, affiliate store, Datafeedr, datafeeds, eco store, Eco Stores, green products, ticket sales, Travel Accessories, Travel Extras, wordpress blog

I’ve decided to take the plunge & set up my first datafeedr affiliate store, on The Green Directory, bringing together the product feeds of many eco-stores & fair trade suppliers. I’m still fine-tuning the exact settings but the whole process was pretty straightforward, the only issue so far being that as per usual with merchant datafeeds, sometimes the actual data is incorrect. For example, I’ve noticed that Adili have a lot of products in their feed, with a price of £0.00! I’ve written to them, but who knows how long it could take to be corrected.

Datafeedr is a system which enables you to create & embed an affiliate store into your WordPress blog WITHOUT touching any clunky datafeed files, learning a programming language or hiring expensive programmers. I found the actual datafeedr shop “factory” very easy to use & enquiries have been answered within 24 hours on the support forum, which is an excellent response time. There are excellent video tutorials to help you through using the factory, integrating your shop into your WordPress blog & more.

I’m just looking into the Drip Feature which enables you to automatically post products to your blog, something that I’ve tried to do manually with my other sites. However, I also plan to add my own posts as well, rather than rely on the system, but it’s a great idea for those times when you might just be too busy with other things to post as much as you should. Just need to get it configured properly.

The one store I’ve set up initially costs $27 per month, but once this store is set up & functioning, I may upgrade to the next plan, which allows the creation of up to 5 different stores. I really want to use it on My Travel Extras to offer a decent travel accessories store, to set up the seperate ticket sales websites, for which I bought the domains www.buyeventtickets.co.uk, www.buyeventickets.co.uk, www.cheapeventtickets.co.uk & www.cheapeventickets.co.uk & to get www.webtraveloffers.com & www.scifigoodies.co.uk domains up & running. The five site plan costs $47, so hopefully, I can get enough sales to cover the costs!

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2 responses to “First Datafeedr affiliate store set up – on The Green Directory”

Darren July 27th, 2009 at 19:57

Hi

I have just tried Datafeedr on one of my sites for the first time to see how it goes and agree the shop function works pretty well. I think provided you keep adding unique content alongside the drip feed then you should be ok in terms of keeping the site ranking etc.

PS. There was a post on A4U about Adili a few weeks ago so which may help working towards resolving the issue: http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/affiliate-window/114466-adili-feed-0-00-a.html

Darren
FreshWebz Web Design August 6th, 2009 at 20:57

Thanks for the info on the Adili problem, will take a look at it now.

Unfortunately, I can’t use the actual drip feature as I use Heart Internet for my hosting and they don’t allow http loopbacks, so you can’t run anything on their servers that utilises the pseudo cron job feature of WordPress.

It was very annoying to find this out & it took a lot of work by Eric of Datafeedr to get to the bottom of it, but it is a problem for anyone using Heart. However, I’ve found a way round it by setting up a real cron job to run wp-cron.php, which is quite easy to do as a scheduled task from the Heart control panel. It’s not as customisable as the drip feature, but does the same thing.

The shop factory is really easy to use isn’t it? The only issues seem to come from the feeds not being populated properly by the retailer!

First Datafeedr affiliate store set up – on The Green Directory

2 responses to “First Datafeedr affiliate store set up – on The Green Directory”

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