I see the question popping up in affiliate forums at least once a week it seems. “Does anyone know of affiliate programs that offer RSS product feeds?” I have blogged about the need for merchants to offer affiliates RSS datafeeds several times. Most retailers are offering product feeds, even some of the newer affiliate networks offer the option, so I’m just not certain why more merchants are not offering this tool to affiliates. Is it the challenge of incorporating the affiliate ID or interfacing with your affiliate network? Whatever the reason, there is a way to do it if you realize the need and make it a priority.

I am featuring a new 5 Star forum thread for listing RSS Affiliate Datafeeds and I encourage merchants with RSS feeds to post about it there. Then as affiliates on other boards ask me for merchants that have RSS I can tell them about you. Hey it’s FREE publicity and thousands of affiliates could see your name and program link at some of the forums I post at - so hit me up and take this opportunity to add your program. Affiliates if you know of merchants that offer RSS feeds, please post in this thread too. If you are an affiliate looking for merchants that offer RSS, check back often as I will also be adding merchants that I find to the list. I know of a couple so will be hunting down their links and adding them later today.

Merchants, if you need a little incentive to get a feed going, here are just a couple of the most recent threads from affiliates looking for merchants that offer RSS datafeeds or coupon feeds.


Merchants with RSS Feeds? “Now I would just like to see a whole heap of other merchants to catch on and produce RSS.”

Convert Affiliate Datafeeds to RSS? “I have also had lots of affiliates asking for a tool that converts merchant datafeeds to RSS. I have been collecting all kinds of bookmarks on everything RSS, but have specifially trying hard to find tools that bridge the datafeed to RSS gap.”

Affiliate Programs with RSS “Does anybody have a list of affiliate programs that offer RSS feeds that include the affiliate codes in the URL’s so you still get commissions? I’m having a hard time finding decent programs Any help would be greatly appreciated.”