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Shopping Comparison Engines - Affiliate and Revenue Share Programs

Price comparison engines put a lot of marketing dollars into PPC advertising… Personally, I think they should concentrate more on affiliate marketing and revenue share.

The most common method I have seen to date has been through co-branding. A variety of sites will co-brand with a pricing comparison service to push interested consumers to the site to seek buying choices. I think the next logical step, which some comparison engines have already taken, is to provide the data as an API / Web Service. Allowing the data to be seemlessly integrated into sites is important to users’. Pricing information can be revealed without having to go out of site. Although co-branding provides the “in-site” feeling to some degree, it is very limiting.

Below is a list of what type of affiliation services the major shopping comparison engines currently provide (to my knowledge).

Shopping.com
Affiliate Program: Yes | Co-branding: Yes | API / Web Service: Yes
Shopping.com has an an XML API that all-in-all is the only one that can actually be implemented in a web site. I have used the Shopping.com API to power my latest site (see example of it). Shopping.com will give you some documentation to get started with and then you are on your own. If you have heard of Chitika’s eMiniMalls, then you should know it is also powered by the Shopping.com API. The biggest upside to the Shopping.com API is that they pay and the limit on the API call is very high. The downside, no developer community.

The Shopping.com API is hard to find any information about. I would suggest emailing them about it. But as of right now they are restructuring their associate department. You can also e-mail me or leave comments on this post if you are interested in more information.

Payout: 50% Revenue Share. This translates to a minimum that varies by category from $0.02 to $0.50.

PriceGrabber
Affiliate Program: Yes | Co-branding: Yes | API / Web Service: No
They have had co-branding (see example) for a long time now. To my knowledge, they have no API or web service. I would be most interested to see an API from PriceGrabber as I feel they provide the most thorough and complete product information for several categories.
For Business Development, contact bizdev@pricegrabber.com

Payout: I believe they pay a flat $0.10 Per-click out to a merchant, but contact there business development for details.

NexTag
Affiliate Program: Yes | Co-branding: Yes | API / Web Service: No
With NextTag you will initially earn $0.05 for each user and you have the opportunity to increase this fee based on the quality of traffic that you refer to NexTag. I have only seen a few sites that have implemented the NextTag affiliate program. NextTag has OpenSearch rss feeds, which I assume you can use inconjunction with the affiliate program… The next step would be a full API.

Payout: $0.05 and up depending on traffic.

Shopzilla / BizRate
Affiliate Program: Yes | Co-branding: Yes* | API / Web Service: No
Seems like they want only high traffic sites for partners. They do have “Contextual e-commerce links for your website.”

For BizRate,
They have cobranding opportunities, but I have seen no web service/API from them eithier. Some useful links: Partner Home, FAQ, Apply to Partner Program.

* Bizrate allows for co-branding, haven’t seen it for Shopzilla.

Yahoo! Shopping
Affiliate Program: No | Co-branding: No | API / Web Service: Yes
Yahoo! released an API in 2005. This is the most informational comparison shopping API I have seen. And probably has the most potential, given the Yahoo! developer community. But last I checked it was limited to 5,000 API calls a day. That essentially renders it uesless for any large projects.

While they have announced revenue sharing for Yahoo! Shoposphere (read more from the stories in November at TechCrunch and Mashable), I am suprised they don’t have a revenue share program for Yahoo! Shopping… Yahoo! please enable more calls and revenue sharing… Who wants to create something of value with no revenue share?

MSN Shopping

Affiliate Program: No | Co-branding: No | API / Web Service: No
No affiliate program… No shopping web services… As of right now… However, I have heard from a Microsoft Rep at Affiliate Summit they are working on a beta API / Web Service and also an affiliate program (read more about it here from the Conference Who’s Who site). Should be interesting.

Froogle
Affiliate Program: No | Co-branding: No | API / Web Service: No
With all the open source and progress Google is making, I am suprised we haven’t seen more action out of Froogle. Listing product information is free for merchants, so I don’t expect to see an affiliate program from them… Nor do I expect one as they pretty much have all the traffic they need. To me it would make sense to release an API that would allow other sites to help feed in product information from merchants and also utilize the information. The other Google APIs have been, for all intensive purposes, a success. So why not one for Froogle?

Perhaps Google has something big on the way. Dave Taylor puts the pieces together in his article Next up: Google Shopping?. He formulates a simple equation:

Froogle + Google Base = Google Shopping

He discusses the Google Base briefly. The only problem I see is that since it is free, you will get a lot more junk information being pushed in by those who are looking to make money of some kind scheme.

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17 Comments so far

  1. Frank on March 13th, 2006

    Hi, I read this article and also visited your Shopping.com API website. I was very impressed, could you please tell me more about the Shopping.com API?, or Can I buy your Code?

    My site: http://bestdeals.valuepia.com

    Best Regards,
    Frank

  2. […] For further reading, see my previous post about the different shopping comparison engine partner/affiliate offerings. […]

  3. It appears that shopping.com is accepting applications once again.

  4. Online Marketing on April 16th, 2006

    Yahoo is NOW testing a revenue share model that has generated significant interst.

  5. Affiliate Program on May 4th, 2006

    The other day I wrote The Best Affiliate Program. Earlier in the year Ben Edelman wrote about the worst. [

  6. Kevin on July 7th, 2006

    I’ve always wondered how co-branding affects duplicate content as seen by the likes of Google. Any idea?

  7. Scott on March 24th, 2007

    I would be very interested in getting more info on the shopping.com api code.

    Thanks!

  8. Al on March 25th, 2007

    How much do shopping.com affiliate websites per 1000 visitors? Is it worth to create and promote such website?

  9. sex shop on April 22nd, 2007

    Does this change add up i am wondering how much you make with these kind of search comparison engines.

  10. Tj on May 10th, 2007

    Thanks this has been a huge help- I am launching a 24hr Hip-Hop based network and I wasn’t really sure how to go about the shop for it. Most of the places I’ve seen aren’t helpful in giving you info. Thx- TJ

  11. Alain on June 16th, 2007

    Hi, please could you tell me how to implement the shopping.com XML API, I have my account with shopping.com and have a API ID. But I really don’t know how to work with the API and to interpret it. It would a great help for me. Thanks

    Ps: My website is in French and for the French market.

    Thanks

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  13. andrew on July 25th, 2007

    Hi,

    I am also trying to install the shopping API into my site even though i am a registered member as the blog says the documentation is extremely hard to find. If i could take up your offer of emailing the details it would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

    Andrew

  14. Abdul on August 29th, 2007

    Thanks for this helping guide!

  15. bbb on October 9th, 2007

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  16. VP on June 20th, 2008

    I have developed sites using Shopping.com API (like http://www.giftspoint.com etc.) and found guide very helpful but still is mess over Shopzilla API as their documentation is poor.

    Now looking forward to use new release of Shopping.com API.

  17. juan on December 5th, 2008

    I am interested in your affiliate program.

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