Patent ID: 8571946

Claim:
A method of creating an export file for use by a web developer to place product codes from one or more Vendor Websites, retrieved over a network, into an Affiliate Website, comprising: receiving a unique identification code from an operator associated with a Vendor Website; receiving a keyword list containing one or more keywords; establishing a connection to the Vendor Website over the network; searching the Vendor Website for products offered for sale relating to the one or more keywords; acquiring product codes, each including graphic data and descriptive text for products obtained in the search of the Vendor Website along with a link to the Vendor Website; inserting the unique identification code into the product codes; storing the product codes in a products database; displaying the product codes along with manually activatable editing buttons to allow a user to individually and globally select, de-select and update products to edit the products database; and creating the export file using the list of product codes stored in the edited products database.