Comments on: Affiliate Programs are Awesome (but you need to find the right partner) http://www.techsoapbox.com/affiliate-programs-are-awesome-but-you-need-to-find-the-right-partner/ Soapboxing every damn day Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ahmed http://www.techsoapbox.com/affiliate-programs-are-awesome-but-you-need-to-find-the-right-partner/#comment-245 Ahmed Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:17:27 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/affiliate-programs-are-awesome-but-you-need-to-find-the-right-partner/#comment-245 XML is just a 'container' for data - a way to present information. In the case of affiliate programs, there are usually three kinds: 1. Classic link with affid. Eg you get a link from CJ or linkshare 2. White-label frontend. Basically you tell them what you want the deisgn to look like, you send people to their site while it looks like yours 3. XML - the affiliate provider gives you all the info they can. You can then embed this on your site to make it look like its a part of your site. Some will even let you do transactions through a secondary domain so your customers have no clue who they are buying from. So with an XML program, by embedding it right into your site, you have much greater control over what your users see and how they see it. The rest you can play around with :) XML is just a ‘container’ for data - a way to present information.

In the case of affiliate programs, there are usually three kinds:
1. Classic link with affid. Eg you get a link from CJ or linkshare

2. White-label frontend. Basically you tell them what you want the deisgn to look like, you send people to their site while it looks like yours

3. XML - the affiliate provider gives you all the info they can. You can then embed this on your site to make it look like its a part of your site. Some will even let you do transactions through a secondary domain so your customers have no clue who they are buying from.

So with an XML program, by embedding it right into your site, you have much greater control over what your users see and how they see it. The rest you can play around with :)

]]> By: bwb http://www.techsoapbox.com/affiliate-programs-are-awesome-but-you-need-to-find-the-right-partner/#comment-244 bwb Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:52:37 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/affiliate-programs-are-awesome-but-you-need-to-find-the-right-partner/#comment-244 Do you have any links to more explanation of how this type of xml system works? I'm very interested in this but haven't heard anything about it before. thanks, Ben Do you have any links to more explanation of how this type of xml system works? I’m very interested in this but haven’t heard anything about it before.

thanks, Ben

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