Shopzilla Publisher Program Launches Commercial API

We're excited to announce that affiliates of the Shopzilla Publisher Program may now access the Shopzilla XML API. Using the XML API, website publishers can programmatically access Shopzilla's comprehensive product catalog and inventory of merchant product offers.

Publishers may make API requests using the following filters:

• Keywords
• Categories
• Brands and related attributes
• Price Ranges
• Product IDs

Commercial access to the Shopzilla API offers website publishers the deepest level of integration to ensure the most contextually relevant display of monetized shopping content.

If you are already an affiliate of the Shopzilla Publisher Program, you must apply for access to the API.

If you are interested in accessing our XML API and are not an affiliate of Shopzilla, please apply for an account.

Introducing the YourMinis Widget for the Shopzilla Publisher Program

We're working with YourMinis.com to offer a shopping widget using the Shopzilla Publisher Program.

As an affiliate of the Publisher Program, you can now embed the Shopzilla Product Search Widget into any number of sites, blogs and personal webpages and continue to generate earnings from traffic associated with the display of your widget.

Embedding the widget is easy. Follow these simple steps.

1. 1. Go to YourMinis.com and search: Shopzilla Product Search
2. 2. Drag the lower right corner to make the widget the size and shape you desire
3. 3. Select "Edit Me" --> "Enter Affiliate ID"
4. 4. Enter your Shopzilla Affiliate ID* and a Placement ID** in the fields provided
5. 5. Select Copy Me and choose the site/blog where you want to ebed the widget

* Your AID can be found in the upper right-hand corner of your reporting page.
** We suggest creating a new placement ID specifically for use with the YourMinis widget for better reporting.

Here's a sample of what it looks like! Link on...

Shopzilla Publisher Program Launches RSS Feeds

Affiliates of the Shopzilla Publisher Program may now embed their tracking information into Shopzilla RSS feeds. Doing so will allow affiliates in the Publisher Program to publish frequently updated shopping content on their site and simultaneoulsy generate earnings. Publishers can select from 25 different RSS feeds. To pick-up RSS feeds, login to your account at http://publisher.shopzilla.com. Select "Get Content" and click on RSS. Contact us once you've published your first RSS feed and we'll put an extra $5 in your account!

Create A Text Link To Any Page

Through the Shopzilla Publisher Program, participants can create a link to any page on Shopzilla.com. This link building option is useful for publishers that want to integrate in-line links from blog posts, articles or other editorial.

The Link To Any Page link builder is easy to use. Simply navigate to the page on Shopzilla.com where you want to link, copy the URL, and then paste it into the Link to Any Page link builder.

For example, if you wanted to create a custom text link to Free Shipping Offers on Shopzilla, copy the URL on that page (as shown in the image below).

After you've copied the URL of the page on Shopzilla.com to which you want to link, paste it into the Link To Any Page link builder as shown in the image below.

PursePage.com is an example of a Shopzilla Publisher site that is using this feature effectively. At the end of this blog entitled "Chanel Heart Print Baguette", PursePage.com links to similar Chanel items on Shopzilla.com. PursePage uses the Link To Any Page link builder to generate these text links.

We encourage publishers to experiment with other Custom Text Link features.