Anyone who's interested in affiliate marketing will know that many merchants list their products in a .csv file. This file can be opened in Microsoft Excel (and similar programs) and lists the merchants products, codes, image links, prices, etc. It's basically got all the information you need to market your affiliate products.

Import CSV is a Wordpress plugin that quickly and easily imports records from your .csv file to your Wordpress site. It imports the following information: post title, post contents, tags, timestamp, category & custom fields.

All you have to do is set up the .csv file to use the correct import fields and away you go, hundreds of merchant products are ready to upload.

Import CSV can save you hours of time because the .csv usually has titles, tags and categories, as well as product descriptions. You just need to make sure the file is set correctly before importing.

Import CSV can also put a future timestamp on yor posts so you can set up work days, weeks and even months in advance.

If you have a Wordpress blog you know how time consuming it can be - those posts don't write themselves! Unless you have Import CSV. Then you have hundred of posts at your finger tips, ready for posting any time you want

There are two ways to use Import CSV:

1. If you just want to fill up a blog with product information you can import the information as your merchant gives it to you - this gives you lots of content very quickly.

2. We all know that original content is important if you want to entertain your readers, so rather than just copying what the merchant gives you, add some thoughts of your own. Review the products your selling and bring your personality to you site. You can do all this with the .csv and import the details quickly and easily to your Wordpress blog.

Not at all! Basic knowledge of Excel is all you need to re-order the appropriate fields. There's a video below which shows you how to use the 'concatenate' function within excel, which is really handy for adding multiple details to one field.

Good decision!

Import CSV is a paid for plugin and you can get it here.

I'm in the process of writing a hub on 'How to get the best from Import CSV' that I'll post to Hubpages pretty soon - watch this space!