Clickbank Ad Feed – New Free WP Plugin – Released Today!
by Penny on 20/04/09 at 1:26 pm | 1,351 views
Clickbank Ad Feed – New Free WP Plugin – Released Today!
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Clickbank does not have an RSS feed, but they do have an XML version of their products called the Clickbank Marketplace. Here is a super simple backend for importing this XML file and producing RSS feeds that will show these feeds on your blog as a widget.
This kind plugin developer even allows us to use our own Affiliate ID (Unlike similar plugins I’ve seen) and rotates his affiliate ID randomly for his payment. You can choose the number of items, campaign tracking tag and keywords.
- Keywords are specified one per line and can include spaces. The software will use these keywords to search the title and description fields of the Clickbank product database. If not enough ads are found, it will fill the remaining slots with the most popular ads based on Clickbank’s popularity score.
- Ordering is done by Clickbank’s popularity score. There are plans to add the ability to sort based on commission amount, whether a product is recurring, or gravity.
- Affiliate ID is set in the widget itself. You can have multiple instances of the widget, so you can use different IDs on different sidebars. Note that the programmer’s ID is rotated through roughly 20% of the time.
- Campaign tracking tags are part of the Clickbank hoplink and can be specified in the widget options. I highly recommend using different values on different sidebars so you can track which ones are more profitable.
- Data updates are done once a day. Clickbank updates their marketplace XML file once a day, so there’s no point in doing it more frequently.
- Clickbank RSS feed access is coming shortly – this will allow you to use any RSS feed reader to include a Clickbank Ad Feed on your site.
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