Coupon sites and data feeds

[Ryder]

i've got a domain that is waiting to be built out, but i haven't dabbled much in the coupon space. when you sign up with an affiliate program that offers some kind of data feed, is it pretty much going to be a well oiled machine that runs itself? will the data feed input all of the data automatically into our own site design? How much maintenance is itt going to take?

[Kevin]

Hi Ryder i will write some info up on this for you it is late here and nearly sleeping at laptop

Datafeeds and coupons you got to love them

[Kevin]

When running a coupon site a lot of work goes into it so be prepared.

You don't get it straight out of the box.

Depending on what network you have signed up with will depend on how you recieve info on the coupons.

Shareasale they have a coupon database on there site i just go to that and take what coupons that are relevent for me.

Avantlink are what i think the best for coupons. You get them in datafeed format and also RSS feed format allowing you to choose what merchant you want to add coupons to your site.

Linkshare and cj.com you need to pay for datafeeds.
Also contact the networks and merchants to see if they will allow you to use ftp access to there datafeed so you can set up a cron job to run it automatically.

But as i said a lot of work goes into it if you want to make it work.

P.S sorry for the late reply.

[Kevin]

I have set up a thread here on some information that may be of help or interest to you.

Coupon sites how to run and mantain them a few helpfull tips.