Adding articles to your new affiliate gardening site involves uploading a text file to your web site.

The important points are:

- Your article needs to be a text file, for instance, “rose-bushes.txt”.

- The text file needs to be named EXACTLY like you want it to appear on your site. If your text file is “rose-bushes.txt”, then the page that gets displays your article on your site is “http://www.example.com/rosh-bushes.html”.

- The text file needs to be in the same directory as THE SCRIPT.

This short 3 minute video shows you how to upload a text file using a FTP program (I use SmartFTP)

Click here to see the … CLICK HERE >>> article video.

And as an added bonus, the last 30 seconds include some music from the a movie of the 1970s. Enjoy.

The next step in creating a database driven website is to display the results.

We have the contents loaded up in the MySQL database ready and waiting.

First thing to do is write a simple query that pulls out a few of the entries.

The way I will do that looks like this:

The important part is line #62, the one that starts with $sql.

The way to read it is “Give me everything that has the word ‘Tree’ in the title.

Once we have that information, then lets print it out.

The “while” statement on line #65 goes through the results and prints out the title and description. Nothing fancy … at least not yet.

That’s enough to hold me over. Enjoy the “family video” that shows you how to do this.

There’s a problem with datafeed affiliate sites – at least it is a problem if you want your sites to stand out from all of the competition – duplicate content.

Who do you think will rank higher in the search engines for specific terms that you might find in your datafeed? Probably the merchant. If this happens, then your site is less likely to get the click that gets the affiliate sale.

So what to do, what to do – let me think. Hmm.

Let’s get a little creative with what the merchant gives us, shall we.

Here’s an example entry that we can use from the affiliate’s datafeed.

I was planning on using the second line, the one that says “American Beech” as the title. What is to stop me from also adding the word “Tree” found on the 12th line down to the title. Nothing really. I can make the affiliate script combine portions of the datafeed and mash it up to create a new title. Pretty cool, huh!

Or how about this idea.

Instead of using the “Dahlia – Dinnerplate – Magic Sunrise” as the title, why not (1) get rid of the dash (-) and also rearrange the words to read “Magic Sunrise Dahlia Dinnerplate”? I can already see the PHP code to do that.

Want in on a big secret – on how I am going to make each site affiliate datafeed site that I create unique?

What secret little piece of PHP code that I have planned for making certain that no matter what, each site I build is not identical to any other site.

Ready? Here it is … modulus.

I’ll explain later