Identifier governance for AI catalogs: When to use barcode versus MPN versus ASIN

AI catalogs win or lose on identifier integrity. The job is to normalize products so models and ranking logic see one canonical item, not five near duplicates. In practice, you will juggle barcodes such as GTIN or UPC, manufacturer part numbers, and Amazon ASINs inside an ecommerce api workflow. Your

Affiliate Marketing: A Data Driven Operator’s Guide for 2025

Affiliate Marketing is the performance channel where results matter. A merchant pays only when a tracked action occurs such as a sale or a qualified lead. This guide is built to rank for Affiliate Marketing by delivering a precise definition, a fast start, and an operator grade playbook you can

Build assistant ready product search with identifiers first queries and affiliate network controls

AI shopping assistants live or die on the quality of their product data. A Product Data API gives teams a consistent way to search, normalize, and compare items across many merchants and networks without guesswork. The result is faster product search, cleaner identifiers, and displays that users trust. In practice

AI powered enhanced search arrives in the Affiliate.com API

AI powered enhanced search is now an operator choice for the Any field in the Affiliate.com API. Teams that have long used Any with the like operator can switch to enhanced to add an AI understanding and ranking layer that interprets intent and surfaces the most likely product first.

Product data API for shopping chatbots: Integrate product data from your affiliate networks

Shopping chatbots need structured product data to answer precise questions, compare offers, and generate commissionable links. A product data API provides that structure across networks and merchants, so the bot can normalize, deduplicate, filter, and explain results with confidence. In this piece, product data API means a unified interface to

Build product feed training data for LLMs: Use barcode and MPN matching

LLM ranking and generation models learn faster when examples are unambiguous. Product feed training data is only as good as its identifiers. Use barcode and MPN matching to group identical items across merchants, then layer price, discount, and availability to produce clean labels that teach models to compare, rank, and

AI product feed API for shopping feeds that update with discounts and availability

An AI product feed API should do more than fetch links. For affiliate marketing teams, the job is to keep product data fresh, comparable, and publish ready as discounts and stock change. This article shows how to use an AI product feed API to normalize data, barcode match identical items

Update Snippets for Product Feeds

Update Snippets for product feeds is about changing live shopping modules without touching your templates. In Affiliate.com, a snippet is a reusable block that renders products, prices, availability, and merchant calls to action from your saved queries and Comparison Sets. When you update the snippet, every placement that uses

AI Short Names

AI Short Names compress long product titles into clear, scannable labels without losing the core meaning. In Affiliate.com, AI Short Names sit on top of the same indexed fields you already trust, so the output plays nicely with identifiers, merchant governance, and deduplication. Why care about short names The

New Network: PartnerBoost

PartnerBoost is now available inside Affiliate.com. The integration brings PartnerBoost direct to consumer merchants into the same normalized catalog that spans more than 30 networks and over a billion products. That means PartnerBoost offers can be searched, filtered, and compared alongside your existing programs with the same identifiers and

Casting a Wider Net in Product Discovery

Advanced affiliate research often starts with incomplete information: a vague keyword, a half-remembered model name, or a shopper intent like “portable speaker under $200.” The fastest way to turn partial signals into promotable products is to widen the search aperture, then layer precision filters to converge on the best offer.

Snippet Layouts

Snippet layouts turn product data into clean, embeddable blocks that match intent and drive clicks. The Snippet Layouts system reads your targeted queries and Comparison Sets, then renders price, availability, and merchant options with controls for deduplication and sort. A snippet is a reusable presentation of one or many products.

Automated & Accurate Product Pricing and Information

Automated and accurate product pricing and information is the difference between a helpful shopping module and a page that leaks trust. In Affiliate.com, product data refreshes from connected networks and merchants across more than thirty networks and over a billion products, then flows into your searches, Comparison Sets, and

Crafting Targeted Queries

Crafting targeted queries is how advanced affiliate teams turn messy product feeds into clean comparison sets and deal pages. In Affiliate.com, you can search across more than thirty indexed fields and layer filters to normalize, deduplicate, and compare at the SKU level while keeping editorial control. The result is

Manage Merchant Commission Rates with Network and Merchant IDs

Every program needs a clean view of the merchant commission rate to make smart trade offs between content effort and likely return. In Affiliate.com you can record a merchant commission rate for any approved partner, then see it in context while you search products and build snippets. Rates come

Multiple Offers Snippets

Multiple Offers Snippets display several distinct products in a single, compact unit. The format is purpose built for discovery moments: trend roundups, themed collections, and seasonal deal sweeps. By contrast, a Comparison Set shows one product with multiple merchant offers. Both are useful, but they answer different questions for the

Affiliate Network Partners

Affiliate Network Partners are the connective tissue that makes Affiliate.com valuable for publishers and merchants. Through integrations with more than thirty affiliate networks and over a billion products, teams can search, normalize, and compare offers in one place while keeping governance tight. This article explains how Affiliate Network Partners

Exclude Duplicate Products

Duplicate listings waste space, confuse readers, and distort comparison data. When the same product shows up multiple times with tiny title or image variations, click paths get noisy and measurement gets muddy. This guide shows how to exclude duplicate products with precision using Affiliate.com’s normalized catalog from more

New Network: GiddyUp

GiddyUp is now fully integrated into Affiliate.com, giving performance marketers another high-intent network to mine for offers without leaving their core workflows. With GiddyUp’s direct-response focus layered into Affiliate.com’s normalized catalog of more than 30 networks and over a billion products, you can evaluate this inventory

Merchant Lookup Tool

The Merchant Lookup Tool is the fastest way to audit networks, discover merchants, and map coverage across more than thirty affiliate networks and over a billion products. By putting network and merchant metadata in one sortable table, it turns a messy discovery step into a repeatable workflow you can hand

Buy Button Customizations

Snippets on Affiliate.com are customizable and can be tailored to your preferred style. The Button section includes all the elements needed to configure the Buy Buttons in your Snippets. This includes customizing the text, color, size and more. Change Text Enter custom text or use variables such as price

Find Amazon Product Matches at Alternative Merchants

Finding Amazon product matches at alternative merchants is a precision task. The intent keyword is Amazon product matches, and the most reliable way to achieve it is to anchor on identifiers, normalize results, then compare offers field by field. Affiliate.com’s dataset spans more than 30 networks, tens of

Showcase What’s On Sale: Creating a Discount-Only Comparison Set

Discount hunting content performs when it is precise and current. The fastest way to achieve that is to build a discount only Comparison Set that filters for On Sale products, validates identity with a barcode or other product identifier, and ranks by the price or savings that matter for your

Global Product Data in One Platform

Global Product Data in One Platform means your team can search, normalize, and compare products across more than thirty affiliate networks and over a billion products without jumping between systems. In Affiliate.com, one query spans countries and networks while you stay in control of identifiers, currency, and governance. The

AI Shopping product feeds: Match identical products across merchants for a clean catalog

AI shopping product feeds work when the inputs are consistent and comparable. In reality, titles vary, attributes drift, and two listings for the same item can appear unrelated. That creates cluttered pages and missed savings for users and revenue teams. Affiliate.com aggregates normalized product data across more than 30