Creating an affiliate site with Drupal?
Ticktockman - March 14, 2006 - 16:38
Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone has created an affiliate site with Drupal? Meaning, using a datafeed from Commission Junction or LinkShare to generate pages. I'd love to take advantage of Drupal's other features such as forums/blogs in the future - but right now I need to mass-generate pages based from a spreadsheet. Is there a module that will allow Drupal to do this?
For those not familiar with affiliate feeds - the store will give you a spreadsheet containing all their product information, so I need to be able to generate pages (or nodes in this case) based on fields or variables from the spreadsheet. (a "price" variable will insert the price, description, image, shipping info, etc....)
Anyone have experience with this?
Also interested
I'm also interested. Does anyone have any ideea ? :)
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Yes, i am interested in this
Yes, i am interested in this too.
anyone have a customized module of hack that can do this?
thank you
lorry
http://magazinesus.info
Guess not
Well, friends, it appears not. :-(
As of now I'm planning on stalling drupal, then using this program:
http://www.fourthworld.com/products/webmerge/index.html
to generate product pages if I have to. If I come up with anything or find anthing I'll post it here.
Ticktockman
Newbie Has Untried Idea
I'm disappointed folk did not respond to your question. I have not tried the following, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Install the e-commerce module.
Find the table that has the matching fields for the data you want to upload. Using phpMyAdmin you upload the data from the spreadsheet to the database.
It's possible t he e-commerce module has its own user interface to import data from spreadsheets, but I don't know.
You still have to figure out how the e-commerce module works and configure it correctly to use on your site etc. But the data entry should be easy to do in bulk.
Shai
Eh, yeah
Hmm, that might work Kelev. I think it's just too much work for me :-)
I'm going to create a static site using that program I mentioned above, then later when I want to add articles/comments, I think I'll try to integrate an installation of WordPress. The time consuming part will be merging/modifying templates.
Good luck!
Datafeeds are not sql as far as I know
I could be wrong but datafeeds are xml documents and require interpretation via xml parsers.
It's more along the lines of rss technology and using xsl stylesheets and all that hoo haa.
Kinda
I've started toying with this... and found a site called GoldenCan.com. It is like and affiliate aggregator... you can basically sign up, put in your affiliate IDs for LinkShare, CJ, ShareASale, etc. They DO take credit for every 4th click on some stores (like Amazon, etc.). It functions by putting a .js code as a post on your drupal blog page. Works pretty slick. You can customize the .js style/look and feel to come close to your site colors, etc. Hope this helps.
Sounds Good
But still a datafeed integration has other benefits. Full integration will get the site spidered and provide more search engine content since the spiders can read html, but they can't read javascript.
There is only a limited number of merchants to promote. Datafeed integration will allow selection of a wider range of affiliate programs, which is necessary for the professional affiliate.
Any Follow-Up
Is there any new news on this subject? Anyone developing for it (or interested)??
Interested
Count me in as intersested in this, I do not have the knowledge to create a module myself but am planning on checking out the XML feed Linkshare provides.
-Tim
Timothy B. Adams
http://www.HostDr.com
WebMerge
Hi,
Could a possible solution be a 3rd party integration module with the WebMerge software mentioned above? I'd like to get something in the works.
TickTockMan, how are you using that software with Drupal? Care to provide an example?
*Bump* Any progress?
Anyone else started working on this integration? I've just recently started integrating the CJ.com ProductSearch 2.0 into a products table on my Drupal DB. I'll soon have it integrated into an e-commerce products.
My concern is the "human experience" at time of checkout. To my knowledge cj is only providing a buy link for each item; what about cases where there's more than one item to be purchased? Any ideas how that should be handled? If it should be handled? (If it shouldn't, scratch out the "shopping cart" idea - and simply do direct links (eek) from the product description page to the advertiser.)
Next question / comment request: should the calling advertiser page be iframed (can it be iframed? Any known legal restrictions?)? I haven't yet researched this case but if anyone else has success or failure stories with it - please share.
Thanks,
GNG
P.S. previous CMS integration of CJ was successful for me when I built my own product browser and placed that as an inframe into the J* CMS suite, the purchase links did go to the full page and google-analytics didn't show too high of a bounce rate.
I'm looking for a cleaner approach here and I'm quite interested with Drupal for other apps, so I figured I'd throw in the aff sites too.
shopping cart from affiliate data
i have some queries out to other forums, but i am looking for something similar --a way to import data from vendor datafeeds and then present a single user experience to shoppers, so they don't simply pay for each item one at a time, but rather fill a shopping cart then buy at once.
if anyone has done this, please do tell here.
if i get any info from another forum, i'll post. the import part shouldn't be too hard; if i figure it out, i'll post some info as well.
best,
m
any more progress?
Also looking for an affiliate style e-commerce site.
I'm sure it is possible with
I'm sure it is possible with Drupal. But if want the easier option, maybe use Joomla instead. There is already couple of extensions available: http://joomlashopbuilder.com/ (by the way, these are commercial extensions).
thanks,
Any update on this
Any update on this system??
Would really like to use datafeeds on my site
thanx
also interested in this.
also interested in this.
Hi, Would feedapi be an
Hi, Would feedapi be an alternative? Did somebody already pull this off?
Greetings, Martijn
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no one has tried http://drupal.org/project/affiliate_products_shop ?
henns20
links only?
I read the documentation on this module and it looks like it imports links, only. Not all the data in the product catalogue, which is what I'm looking for. If anyone has had some experience with this module, how did it work for you?
Connie
Affiliate products
I tried it and it says it is not compatible with my version
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Looks like ubercart has one: http://drupal.org/project/uc_affiliate2
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Feedapi + CCK + Views
I'm thinking that Feedapi is probably the best module to handle the feeds from the affiliate networks. Then it is just a matter of creating nodes from the feed and using views to display the info the required way.
I'll give Feedapi a go when I get a chance. Anyone fancy giving it ago as well?
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Feedapi experience?
Blairski,
How did the feedapi integration go? Did you also use the Feed Element Mapper? I'm about to do the same and would appreciate any advice from your experience. I will share the same as soon as I get my site up and running.
Connie
Hi Connie, I haven't
Hi Connie,
I haven't actually had a chance to try it yet as I have been busy on other things. I am hoping to give it a go at some stage in the next few weeks.
Regards
Blairski
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I'm interested in this, too.
same, I'd like to see
same, I'd like to see something like that for drupal
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I am doing this with Feed aggregator module.
I am doing this with Feed aggregator module and Feeds. I am still working out small glitches but for the most part its working. If you want to see what I am doing check out www.dealfrogger.com. Commission Junction does not have many RSS feeds but Linkshare does.
Hi, Is feed-aggregator
Hi,
Is feed-aggregator module still supported in D6?
Greetings,
Martijn
Yes. I am using D6. In
Yes. I am using D6. In fact I think comes with the default install.
I went back and looked its actually called aggregator now but when enabled it shows up in your Content Management as Feed Aggregator.
Hi, What about this thread
Hi,
What about this thread then: http://drupal.org/node/230050
I am confused...greetings, Martijn
I do have that installed as well.
I may have misled you. Sorry. I thought it was aggregator. Let me look into this off my dev box.
Ok. Yes I am correct and I did not mislead you. However the FeedAPI does give some bang for the buck and here is what I am doing for using that. This module can actually create nodes for you. These are actually search able via google when you enable xmlsitemap. I use this for a feed and then only pick like 2 or 3 to post to the front page. However for my categories I use the aggregator. Hope this makes better sense. I can understand why this is confusing. I confuse myself with all these feeds from time to time.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info moomba. I will use your advice. I think I am going to embed the smfforum like you did. However for now check out my site http://www.eagleideals.com. I created this for everyone to use. You can post your own links without me changing them. I believe you should get credit for your findings. Your links will get posted to my front page too.
Happy Trails
I like the look of your site.
I like the look of your site. I'm thinking of branching my real estate investing site off because I have too many
branchoff links at the bottom of my site... http://www.foxvalleypropertysolutions.com
We Buy Homes Chicagoland
http://www.foxvalleypropertysolutions.com
Just found this last week.
Found one which provides datafeed integration for most of popular affiliate networks - Datafeedr. But with Wordpress. The good part is they create and maintain the feeds themselves so that you don't have to sratch your head. Inspite of that there are a few challenges. But, worth checking it out.
I'm already looking for a drupal equivalent.
Software Testing Concepts - my first drupal website
http://www.softwaretestingconcepts.com
Node Import
hi,
I am working with CJ datafeeds, and perhaps the best way to get this into Drupal is the Node Import module as it takes CSV files. Its worked out wonderfully, so far, but the only thing is that I can't get my head around getting the IMAGEURL field to display the image from the URL supplied by the CJ datafeed. Instead the actual URL is displayed linking to the remote image, which cannot be accessed. I have tried to embed the URL using the emfield module, but that does not show up as one of the fields which can be mapped via the node_import module. This thing, in my opinion, that if this would be implemented, it would be revolutionary.
My best assessment is to add a default PHP code in the CCK field, which aggregates the IMAGEURL, IMPRESSIONID, and the BUYURL fields into one intelligent link, or something of that sort. My PHP skills need some tuning, so of anyone has any ideas, I would be more than appreciative. Thanks.
Hi, How about feedapi and
Hi, How about feedapi and feedapi_mapper for your purpose?
greetings,
Martijn
Greetings,
Martijn
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Hi I am newbie in this
Hi I am newbie in this site.Actually I am very interested creating an affiliate with Drupal.But I dont have any idea.I am gone through soundsational's given link but I am not getting from where should I start...
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