Blogging and affiliate rss datafeeds

There are merchants, who offer affiliate rss datafeeds. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a well-known lightweight XML format commonly used for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web. So you as a website owner and affiliate marketer are able to insert those rss affiliate feeds into your website and be paid on PPC/CPA/CPS model just like using regular affiliate links.

At the moment you can sign up for affiliate programs and insert merchant datafeeds into your blogs for free at ShareASale affiliate network, netshops affiliates, LinkShare, and probably many other affiliate networks and affiliate programs. These datafeeds deliver feed product information to your website quickly and easily. Quoting from LinkShare:

LinkShare Affiliate Tools and Solutions - LinkShare has designed the following tools specifically to enable affiliates to make the most of their affiliate marketing experience:
Merchandiser Datafeed - allows affiliates to download individual product links to their website without having to manually create links to each product carried by a merchant.

Also there are services that convert some merchants products' lists into RSS datafeeds, allowing you to auto-display products from their affiliate programs. For instance, let us look at rss feed from hopRSS dot com. This free service generate Clickbank RSS feeds for your website instantly. To get datafeed URL you just need to enter your ClickBank nickname, keyword and quantity of results you want to get. All links to ClickBank's merchants from the hopRSS clickbank feed generator contain your Clickbank affiliate nickname.

Finally, you need to insert obtained rss feed into your blog. It seems that there are many ways to insert RSS feed into WordPress powered blog and it is definitely easy to insert RSS feed into new Blogger. Just open "Template/Page Elements" to "Add a Page Element" named "Feed" Inside Blogger interface, enter "Feed URL" and then "Title" of datafeed.

In conclusion it must be said that affiliate rss datafeeds are only helpful tool to get affiliate promo materials automatically uploaded and inserted into your website and not a marketing tool to increase you affiliate sales or earnings.