New Google Affiliate Network Features: Data Feed UI, Link Subscriptions and Batch Creative Uploads
Monday, October 13, 2008 | 7:54 AM
Labels: Advertisers, Features, Publishers
We deployed some new features over the weekend that we hope will help our users manage some important day to day tasks.
Product data feed setup in the UI
Publishers can now sign up for data feeds from through our user interface by navigating to 'Get Links > Product Feeds.' The page will be populated with your approved advertisers that offer a data feed, establishes a file naming convention for all of the feeds the you select to receive from Google advertisers and validates your FTP information. If you have previously set up feeds via our support team your existing settings have not changed, but any settings you adjust in the interface will override previous settings.
Link Subscriptions (formerly known as OrangeLinks)
We've also made a minor name change to our service that delivers feeds of promotional data to publishers. OrangeLinks will now appear in the interface as Link Subscriptions. The functionality has not changed; publishers who sign up for link subscriptions receive a daily file of new ads that their approved advertisers have created in the system. If you are already signed up, you should be aware that the filename format will be changing to "Link Subscriptions_MMDDYYYY.xls". If you haven't signed up, you should navigate to 'Get Links > Link Subscriptions' to get started; many publishers use this feature to quickly review every promotion their advertisers offer.
Batch Creative Upload
Advertisers may now upload creative assets in large batches. Loading creatives one by one is time consuming so we've added a feature to creative management that allows advertisers to upload zip files containing multiple creatives. We expect this will be a huge time saver in the busy Q4 season for many of our users.
Help Center
In case you missed it, we recently announced that we've launched a new help center. There is a lot of great content in there and we'll be adding more in the future. If you haven't checked it out yet, please take a minute to browse the advertiser and publisher docs.
Regards,
Larry Adams
Product Manager

13 comments:
amiya said...
Another good news. I would appreciate if you could employ 'ad-sense for content' like features into it. I mean, creating 1 element for all the 'selected ads', and rolling/cycling them; in 1 HTML element, as in Blogger layout.
October 14, 2008 1:41 AM
Wei Cao said...
Hi,
Been waiting for some changes. I recently made some comments about the possible improvements I expect on Google Affiliate Network on my blog.
Can you make sending HTML format newsletters directly to all publishers available on the platform?
Thanks
October 14, 2008 7:48 AM
darnellclayton.com said...
I love the new layout (your previous one was so horrible I abandoned the affiliate network in favor of other friendlier looking ones).
Now that I have been accepted by a bunch of affiliates, I will now test out how successful the program is across my blogs.
PS
Is there a way for us to add multiple sites? For instance, some of my sites appeal to different advertisers (one leans toward the medical crowd, while the other towards the software geek crowd).
Come on Google, help us out here!
~Darnell
October 14, 2008 6:22 PM
agent said...
It would be really nice if you provided phone numbers for our affiliate managers so that when we have issues with our account, we don't have to wait several days for email responses.
I've been unable to login to my account for 4 days now after trying to change my login password. A simple phone number for me to call to have this taken care of seems almost elementary, but can't be done. All of the advertisers that I work with within my account are suffering the consequences of this since I can't update my site with the latest offers.
October 15, 2008 10:58 AM
vladzablotskyy said...
Larry,
I have implemented the new "datafeed delivery" in my account. However it would be good idea to offer affiliates to report problems or bugs.
For example one of my websites uses datafeed from www.beddingstyle.com .Today their website is down.
October 15, 2008 7:43 PM
Shrushti Web Solutions said...
Thanks for UI for datafeed, Now you are becoming strong competitor with class one merchants in the affiliate networks who provides feed easily.
I am expecting this changes as i am in constantly talk with your executives regarding affiliate data feeds.
Thank you,
October 16, 2008 4:09 AM
CurtAtAlphatek said...
I applied for the Google Affiliate network over 48 hours ago and have yet to receive so much as an email about my application. A phone number can't seem to be found anywhere either. Does it normally take an abnormal amount of time to get accepted, or at least to hear something from someone? Sorry for the off-topic comment, but I couldn't find anywhere else to contact anyone. Can you help?
October 16, 2008 8:23 PM
Driven to win for GOD said...
I wonder if those product datafeeds can help boost search engine optimization, if the codes were placed into php scripting...
www.ShawnDrewry.com
October 21, 2008 2:09 PM
lazybones said...
I am soooo frusrated! I don't see any information anywhere explaining how to put a link on my website. the link page for the advetiser I want has 3 items: 1) A tracking url, 2) a Creative url, and 3) a window where you can highlight a block of code that includes the tracking url and the creative url, plus some extra code. What am I to do with all this? I pasted the block of code from the window into my site, and it creates a little ad with a link, but the other 2 windows must have some purpose, and I don't want to do this if I'm not going to be paid because I didn't do something right. I went to the "links" page of the "help" section, and it doesn't say ONE WORD ABOUT THIS!!!! Just talks all around it. I think that this is really the main point of everything, ie, how do you put a link on your site. Google should be putting this info right up front in the most visible places of the website, otherwise people are going to get sick of searching the web for answers and forget about earning 10 cents for working 10 hours setting up dozens of affiliate ads. Yup, I'm getting crabby.
December 4, 2008 2:56 PM
chigozie said...
that is ok and best.but some should help me i paste my adsense code but during publishing my HTML is saying tag not closed but i later published it .my problem is i dnt know it the ad will runing.pls take a look at my blog .www.moneyisgoodo.blogspot.com
December 12, 2008 5:25 AM
soni2006 said...
Hi GAN team,
Can anyone please tell me that if I can apply for google affiliate network with my blogspot url.
As I do not have my personal domain and I always use blogspot or hubpages for writng blogs and articles.
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Rajinder Soni
February 6, 2009 5:37 AM
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SEOMedia said...
My product feed loaded successfully. I can see the file (_catalog)on my remote server.
I can pull off the .txt file. What do I do with it now?
March 5, 2009 9:48 AM
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