About two months ago we added a new SEO friendly integration option to our Dynamic Coupon Feed, Product Display Builder and Deal of the Day tools. This option allows you to retrieve the HTML directly from our servers and display it on your site using a few lines of server side scripting code.
If you’ve used the RSS integration option, the end result is basically the same. You get the same benefit of always having up to date product information combined with SEO friendly HTML output. This option may be a little easier for some Affiliates to implement though since it gives you cut and paste sample code you can embed directly into your PHP or ASP pages and doesn’t require a separate library to parse the RSS XML.
To try it out just look for the “Dynamic HTML” integration option within the respective tool sign-up pages. Note: On the Deal of the Day sign-up page this option is referred to as “Datafeed: Customized Text/Html Ad (HTML)”
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1DominoLady on Jul 2, 2008 at 8:55 am:
I set up a coupon feed last night and no matter what I did with the .css file I couldn’t change the item title appearance. After I uploaded the file and viewed the page source I was able to fix it. I’d like to suggest that a separate snippet be offered with the Dynamic html feed option because it wasn’t until I had uploaded the page and altered the .css file that I noticed that the snippet referred to a .js file.
Here is the content of the style snippet I got with my feed code:
.coupon_feed_js_item_title {font:size: 90%; padding: 10px 0 10px 0;}
.cf_image {padding: 2px 2px 2px 0;}
.cf_description_text {font-size: 90%;}
.cf_expiration_label {font-size: 90%; font-weight: 600;}
.cf_expiration_text {font-size: 80%;}
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and the adjustments I needed to do to alter the appearance: (with the default variables)
.coupon_feed_html_item_title {font:size: 90%; padding: 10px 0 10px 0;}
.coupon_feed_html_item_title:hover {font:size: 90%; padding: 10px 0 10px 0;}
.coupon_feed_html_item_description {font-size: 90%;}
.cf_image {padding: 2px 2px 2px 0;}
.cf_description_text {font-size: 90%;}
.cf_expiration_label {font-size: 90%; font-weight: 600;}
.cf_expiration_text {font-size: 80%;}
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Because the .coupon_feed_html_item_title is a link, it was controlled by my .css file’s ‘a’ attributes by default without the changes shown. Since that controls all the links on the page I didn’t want to change it. The addition of .coupon_feed_html_item_description let me put a pretty “coupon” border around the coupon’s description.
I just thought it would be helpful for others who would like to use the Dynamic Html feed option and may have had the same problems.