Automating coupon sites?

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livingstonmedia

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I wasn't sure if this post should be in this forum or the affiliate-specific one so feel free to move it, Mods. But here's my question:

I have a coupon-based site (mostly Linkshare offers) which is starting to get some traffic and some income but I update it every day by hand which is getting annoying and I'd like to focus more on the marketing of the site and less on the updating. Right now it's all Wordpress-based and I upload coupons through a .csv file.

Anyway - I believe that the major coupon sites (I'm talking about couponcabin.com, couponmountain.com, etc.) are all automated in their coupon addition... right? How do they do it? Would goldenCAN be customizeable enough to do what they do while still looking good (all of the sample sites that goldenCAN lists on their homepage look like shit)? Or is it based on some other set up?

Any knowledge/advice is very much appreciated! Thank you! And here's some tits for your troubles:


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I worked with the big UK voucher sites for a bit. Its coded to pull the feeds from the aff networks. Since those feeds can be messed up by advertisers changes at any time it needed to be monitored for anything that screwed it up. They were posting thousands a day. Get your site to pull feeds and post.
 
Here is a method that works well, though can be challenging. Set it up as user submitted where they can "test" their coupons. Build a script that scrapes/submits the coupon on the merchant site when the user submits the coupon on your site, add the coupons to a db and display the good ones. Then build another script that will validate all the good coupons on the merchant site which you can run on a cron job daily, weekly, whatever. Won't work with all merchants, especially those who ask for coupons at the end of check out, but if you can make it work with some it can be effective, visitors will love it and will require little intervention on your part once all said and done..Works well on a micro coupon site that focuses on a vendor or two
 
Lot of those big coupon sites have teams of people to pull and post the coupons with some automated feeds.

Best automated method I found is to pull coupon codes from twitter. There's one site that's doing it already.
 
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