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January 23, 2005
Wholesale Dropship Info.com Powered By Affiliate Feeds
Sometimes you can just see what's going to be the next “big thing” in an industry. And in the affiliate industry, and Internet marketing in general, it's clearly going to be feeds.
What, exactly, is a feed? The simplest definition is that it's a way of distributing and aggregating Web content. It's syndication – like reading Dear Abby or your favorite cartoon – except that it's 21st century-tech style. Meaning it does cool things like updating itself – without any effort on your part. This blog entry you are reading right now is a feed. Whenever a blog author writes a new entry, anyone subscribing to that feed will receive a new entry without having to do anything. To us non-techs, it's the equivalent of magic.
So why should affiliates care? Well, there are lots of reasons, and we'll be talking about this a lot in the future, but here are two biggies:
1. The search engines LOVE 'em! So if you have a site with automatically updated content, Google, Yahoo, MSN and the rest are almost certain to be sniffing around on a frequent basis. Translation:
2. Using product feeds is a wonderful way for affiliates to sell! To illustrate this, gather round the campfire while I share a personal story ...
In the holiday season of 2003, I made $1,000+ per week selling Bratz dolls via AdWords. It was simple and clean – all I did was buy some keywords and direct buyers straight to my affiliate companies. Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to my AdWords panel every day and suddenly I realized that my revenues had stopped cold. I discovered that the dolls were so hot that my suppliers were sold out. Unfortunately they hadn't bothered to notify me and I ended up paying for days of clicks that were totally pointless! Boo!
That won't happen with an affiliate feed, if your supplier updates as it should. Why? Because your feed will auto-update itself!
* Your supplier is out of stock?
* They are running a special?
* Offering free shipping?
* Two for the price of one?
Your customers will know it and you won't have to DO anything? It surely beats the tedious and incredibly time-consuming chore of listing product, pictures, prices, links, etc., one at a time.
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Posted by SydneyJohnston at January 23, 2005 1:53 PM
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