Patent ID: 8571947

Claim:
A method for retrieving product codes from a plurality of vendor websites over a network and inserting the product codes into an affiliate website of an affiliate, comprising: acquiring a unique identification code of the affiliate for each of the plurality of vendor websites; creating a single keyword list containing one or more keywords; storing the single keyword list; establishing over the network a connection to a selected one of the plurality of vendor websites; searching the selected vendor website for products offered for sale relating to the one or more keywords of the single keyword list; acquiring product codes including graphic data and descriptive text for products obtained in the search of the selected vendor website along with a link to the selected vendor website; inserting the affiliate's unique identification code into the acquired product codes; repeating the steps of establishing, searching, acquiring, and inserting for each remaining vendor website of the plurality of vendor websites; storing the product codes of the plurality of vendor websites in a products database; displaying the product codes of the plurality of vendor websites along with manually activatable editing buttons which allow a user to individually and globally select, de-select and update products to modify the products database; and uploading the products database to a server to serve the products database along with the affiliate website so that viewers of the affiliate website can purchase the products.