Using datafeeds in WordPress...

[CAdams]

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Afternoon folks.

I am looking at creating a site using wordpress. I would like to list categories on the site which take the visitor to specific products with images, info and prices and with affiliate links. So my website would be about a particular niche area, with various information categories along with categories for specific product areas (I would prefer to create these manually and just choose what datafeeds to shove in each category). When these categories are clicked on, I want to be able to list say 25 or more products with affiliate links to the merchant. Pretty straight forward right?

I am currently using webgains, which is pretty new to me, and I have looked at their 'ad creator' feature, which does almost give me what im looking for apart from the only option for implementation into my site is javascript (the html radio button is greyed out for some reason), which would mean that all the content from the datafeed wouldnt even exist in terms of SEO, so that is no good unfortunately!

I have looked at a script called 'wordpressdatafeedimport' which kind does what I want, but not exactly. I dont want each product into an individual post on the wordpress site, I want to be able to list whatever products I choose in each category (I dont mind editing datafeed files manually for each category if needs be)

I can show you an example of the type of thing I am looking for, but with this example these people actually sell pre-built sites and it looks like they take a share of the commission, which is not what im looking for. But in terms of layout, and neatness of the product layouts this is exactly what I am after.

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Can anyone advise on a route to take, I have spent hours searching for something suitable.

I am open to alternatives other then WordPress, but they must be SEO friendly. WordPress from experience is extremely SEO friendly and flexible, which is why I am looking to take this path. I have also looked at affilistore (which i use for another site), but it is not really suitable for this website, as I aim to add a lot of my own content into each category area. I want flexibility with where my products are shown.

Cheers for any help and advice!

[jhulott1]

Hi,

I use a datafeed converter - Convert Affiliate Datafeeds to RSS 2.0 Feeds with Datafeed To RSS - You have to buy it but it is worth it. This converts the xml or csv feed to rss2.0 compliant and then use the import tool in Wordpress.

Good luck. PM me if you want to test the datafeed tool as I have it here and run it for you.

Cheers

Jason

[earningfromaffiliates]

i created Wordpress Datafeed Plugin - Create websites from Affiliate Datafeeds using wordpress for this purpose

[BigChrisUk01]

Learn a little bit of MYSQL and PHP and do it yourself.

I have wrote my own stuff but it is very specific to what I do and is not product-ised.

[WebTechGlobal]

BigChrisUk01 that comment is far from helpfull! Do you compose a bit of music or do you buy it to listen to ? :tup

It's all about saving time and the best plugin for the job is CSV 2 POST.

4 levels of categorising, never found a blog with 4 levels yet but hey someone might need it. 3 of the levels are created using your data so you would need 3 columns of data that act as category names. The interface allows you to order them so they become nested.

Importing process creates categories as it goes along so if your importing 1 million rows of data to make 1 million posts and you stagger it over a year for great SEO then your categories will not exist until the script finds them in your data.

As for SEO, its perfect. CSV 2 POSt will create meta keywords, description and tags all from your data (you select which data) and store them as custom fields. Only thing it does not do right now and I want to change it in the next few days is name the custom fields for keywords and description to suit your SEO plugins custom field names. Right now they become default names but its easy upgraded.

I think thats it. There is a free edition which is very basic for small projects on the wordpress plugin directory.

There is a demo blog you can log into and try the paid edition on the csv 2 post dot com website.

Theres endless information plus a forum for unlimited downloads of future versions should you buy the paid edition.

Regards
Ryan