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Solution — Affiliate Feeds

Publishers feature merchants whose feeds hold up.

Publishers and creators on CJ, Impact, AvantLink, and Pepperjam build deal pages, comparison tables, and storefronts from your product feed. Stale prices and dead links cost them commissions, so they move on. GoDataFeed formats your catalog to each network's spec and refreshes price, stock, and links on schedule across the full assortment.

Publisher deal page with three outdoor products, showing validated product URLs, out-of-stock exclusion, and brand, category, and sale price mapped to network columns.

$113B

in US ecommerce sales driven by affiliate in 2024 (Performance Marketing Association)

9.4%

of all US ecommerce sales came through affiliate in 2024 (PMA)

15–20%

of sales for brands that run affiliate programs (PMA, 2024)

How the catalog becomes the commission

Three jobs done before a publisher pulls your feed.

Map to the network schema

Every field the network wants, filled.

CJ, Impact, and AvantLink each ingest a different column layout. GoDataFeed maps your attributes to each network's schema, including category, brand, product URL, sale price, and shipping, so the feed loads without rejections and publishers can filter on the fields their tools use.

Field mapping table: store fields mapped to CJ, Impact, and AvantLink columns for category, brand, product URL, sale price, and shipping.
Refresh log for each affiliate network, listing price, availability, and URL changes with a link-check status on every row.

Keep prices and links current

Current prices. Links that resolve.

A comparison table showing yesterday's price sends the shopper somewhere else. Scheduled refreshes push price, availability, and URL changes to each network, and GoDataFeed validates each product link on push, so clicks land and commissions attribute.

Curate what publishers see

Commission-ready SKUs, filtered by rule.

Not every product belongs in the affiliate feed. Rules exclude low-margin items, MAP-restricted brands, and out-of-stock SKUs, and add fields such as commission tier or promo flags so publishers feature the products you want promoted.

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Affiliate feed rules that exclude low-margin, MAP-restricted, and out-of-stock SKUs and add commission tier and promo flag fields.

One catalog, every network

Pick a network. Same clean source.

CJ

Impact

AvantLink

CJ Affiliate.

CJ publishers merchandise your catalog in storefronts, deal pages, and comparisons. GoDataFeed formats the feed to CJ's product spec, keeps price and stock current, and validates product URLs on each sync.

Load status for CJ, Impact, and AvantLink: rows accepted, rows rejected, and last load time.

Impact.

Affiliates, creators, and commerce publishers on Impact work from your product catalog. GoDataFeed delivers it in Impact's ingestion format with current prices, stock, and links, long tail included.

Load status for CJ, Impact, and AvantLink: rows accepted, rows rejected, and last load time.

AvantLink.

AvantLink's publisher tools run on merchant datafeeds, and its publishers filter hard on attributes. GoDataFeed delivers complete, categorized data on each sync so those tools have full detail to work with.

Load status for CJ, Impact, and AvantLink: rows accepted, rows rejected, and last load time.

Store to publisher

From store to publisher listing.

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Ingest

Pull your full catalog, variants, and inventory from any store or source.

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Standardize

One clean master record, deduplicated and normalized.

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Filter

Exclude low-margin, MAP-restricted, and out-of-stock SKUs by rule.

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Map

Fill each network's schema: category, brand, product URL, sale price, shipping.

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Validate

Check rows and links against the network's spec before the feed loads.

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Syndicate

Publish to CJ, Impact, AvantLink, Pepperjam, and LinkConnector; track loads in one view.

Two ways to run it

Self-serve or managed. Same platform either way.

Same platform, same data quality. Pick the level of hands-on you want - and switch later without re-platforming.

Self-serve

Your team runs it.

Full access to mappings, rules, and channels. Preview a change on sample SKUs, then push it on your schedule. No ticket, no queue.

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In-app editing for every product

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200+ integrations, ad channels on every plan

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Validation & alerts built in

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Managed

Our feed team runs it.

A dedicated feed team runs day-to-day operations while you keep full visibility and the keys to your data.

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Dedicated feed specialist

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Proactive monitoring & cleanup

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You still own and export everything

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Proof

More reach from one feed.

Ecommerce CEO

Business development

Agency partner

GoDataFeed's impressive solution increased our operational efficiency by over 300% while also increasing the reach of our sales channel initiatives - well beyond what was feasible with an alternate solution.

300%+

gain in operational efficiency

Cynthia Countouris, Co-Founder and CEO

Thanks to the dedicated team at GoDataFeed, we managed to get our product feed set up on over ten shopping channels. Now when I post a product on my site, it is located all over the internet.

10+

shopping channels from one feed

Maurice Harary, Business Development

GDF has gone out of their way on several occasions to meet the specific needs of our clients. They have not only been a great service but more importantly a trusted partner that my team can count on when needed.

10+

years as a GoDataFeed partner

Greg Yevich, agency partner

FAQ

Affiliate feed questions.

Questions, answered

Before you ask.

Which affiliate networks do you support?

CJ Affiliate, Impact, AvantLink, Pepperjam (Ascend), and LinkConnector. If a network isn't listed, a custom feed template can match its spec.

How often does the affiliate feed refresh?

On the schedule you set. Each refresh sends current price, stock, and product URLs to every connected network.

Can I exclude products from the affiliate feed?

Yes. Rules filter by margin, brand, category, stock status, or any field you sync, per network. Excluded products stay live on your other channels.

Do publishers get a link for each SKU?

Yes. Every row carries that SKU's own product URL, variant-level where your store has one, and GoDataFeed validates it on push. The network adds its tracking on top.

Can creators use the same feed?

Yes, through your affiliate network. Creators on Impact and similar networks pull from the same product catalog as other publishers, and GoDataFeed keeps it current for all of them.

Keep every publisher selling from current data.

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