Features
Demonstrated below are some of the key features of Datafeed Studio.
Affiliate CMS
Easily add blog posts or static content pages to your affiliate stores with the built-in WYSIWYG editor.
Distinguish yourself from other cookie-cutter affiliate sites and keep your visitors informed and educated about your product niche and your site.
User Generated Content
In true Web 2.0 fashion, Datafeed Studio themes can allow the user to participate on your web site by providing reviews of products.
These are held in a staging area for you to moderate, and approve before publication. User reviews are great as they give your site free user-generated content, which Google and other search engines will lap up!
Amazon Support
Want Amazon products on your site? Unable to get an Amazon datafeed?
Datafeed Studio has the solution with its built-in support for accessing the Amazon product database (from any country). To use this feature you will need to sign-up with the relevant Amazon Web Service program for your locality (free) to get your Amazon Web Service account credentials.
Amazon is a great merchant for converting clicks into sales so it is highly recommended that you activate this feature. Once enabled you can search Amazon's huge product database (including those provided by Third Parties) and add the products you want to your Datafeed Studio database. What's more, Datafeed Studio can be configured to automatically keep the product details (price, description, availability, etc.) synchronised with Amazon's database.
API Support for Other Networks
Besides Amazon, Datafeed Studio also supports Web Service access to Affiliate Window (Shop Window V3) and Commission Junction (with more soon to follow). This means you can start adding products to your database without even downloading a single feed file.
All you need to do is sign-up to the appropriate API with the affiliate network you want to use and you can then search their product database, and choose which product(s) you want to add to your own Datafeed Studio database.
From that point Datafeed Studio will even keep the prices (and any other product information) synchronised should they change - and the imported products will show up in your price comparison pages.
Create Niche Online Stores, Price Compare Sites and More!
Unlike other affiliate solutions, Datafeed Studio is not limited to a single type of affiliate site, and can generate online stores, price compare sites and highly profitable PPC landing pages at a push of a button.
Put all your feeds and products into the Datafeed Studio engine - and get them out however you like, using the built-in site generators, from a Wordpress site using the dedicated Wordpress datafeed plugin or even using the PHP programming API for advanced integration into existing sites.
Experiment with the best choice of money-making site for you niche (and let us all know about your successes in the Datafeed Studio Discussion Forum!)
Themes
Datafeed Studio comes with a selection of user customisable themes to help you create great looking affiliate websites. These act as a great starting point for your own customisation and imagination.
All the presentation files used by Datafeed Studio are freely editable either using the built-in theme editor, or as they are just normal files stored on the web server, via your favourite editor via FTP or SSH.
Created a great theme or site using Datafeed Studio? Let us know about it and we'll mention it on the blog or even link to it from this site.
Integrate With Existing Web Sites (including WordPress)
Advanced users might want to use Datafeed Studio as an affiliate product database and reference selected products from other blog or CMS publishing systems such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.
Datafeed Studio makes this possible by allowing you access to the same functions that native Datafeed Studio templates use from your other web sites.
See integrating Datafeed Studio with WordPress to understand how little effort is required...and from V2.4 Datafeed Studio even includes a Wordpress plugin to make this process even easier!
Automated Refresh of Datafeeds
Datafeed Studio comes with a set of PHP command-line scripts that enable you to automate the download and import of datafeed products into your database (e.g. via cron).
Don't worry - if your not a fan of the command-line, you can manually refresh a particular feed, or all feeds at once, with just one click from the Datafeed Studio administration interface.
Master your Products
When you have thousands of products at your fingertips, you need to gain some control over them. Datafeed Studio comes with a powerful search tool that allows you to quickly find the products of interest to you.
What's more - with Datafeed Studio you can create special categories of products (great for online stores) either by manually allocating them from the administration interface, or creating dynamic categories that will automatically list all products matching the criteria you specify (e.g. all products that match the word 'TomTom').
In addition, you can override almost all the product information that is provided in the datafeed about a product, including it's name, description, URL for SEO purposes, etc. Datafeed Studio even remembers this information when you update your datafeeds, so you never lose your valuable unique content about products, and can continue to create great value added affiliate sites that will be appreciated by your site visitors.
Advanced Click Reference Tracking
No more wondering what product or site generated your commission, Datafeed Studio now allows you to give each of your affiliate sites a unique tracking reference that will be passed through to the affiliate network on each click.
What's more - you can even opt to add the ID of the product to the reference so you can tell exactly where the sale came from!


