LinkShare September News
Welcome to the September edition of the Publisher Newsletter! Inside you will find some great resources that can help you increase your commissions as we move into Q4 and the holiday season. First, please join LinkShare in supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month during the month of October. We have put together a sampling of LinkShare's advertisers who donate to breast cancer research funds or are selling pink products so that you can put together your own campaign to help the cause. Then find out how LinkShare's proprietary tracking will stand up to the privacy settings on two new browsers- Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome. If you are still new to affiliate marketing, sign up for one of LinkShare's live Publisher Training courses or view recordings of these sessions on our website. Also, take a look Inside the Publisher Dashboard for a glimpse into the Program Details section. Finally, check out the promotions section, where we have highlighted two promising programs.

LinkShare Tracking Through Microsoft IE8 and Google Chrome
Recently we have been hearing a lot about two new web browsers – Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 8 and Google Chrome. With every new browser that comes out, user privacy becomes more front-and-center. LinkShare is pleased that Microsoft and Google are putting consumer privacy issues at center stage in the browser market through their latest product releases that help to protect consumers. As with any new browser, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 will have an impact on ecommerce and online marketing.

IE8 offers a new feature called "InPrivate ". InPrivate gives users more control over how their browser information is saved and shared. Find detailed information on IE8's privacy features here.

LinkShare Tracking does not rely on cookies to track Publisher referrals. We offer two methods – LS Trans and Web Services. With the LS Trans method, transaction information is sent via a secure and reliable patented batch process. With Web services, tracking transaction information is sent over a secure server-to-server transmission. In both methods there is direct communication between the Advertiser and LinkShare, and the web browser does not present an additional potential point of failure.

The susceptibility of cookies to browser behavior is nothing new. The industry has long recognized the risks of cookie deletion as a result of:

• Browser privacy and security settings
• Anti-Spyware programs
• Anti-Virus programs
• Users manually clearing their cookies

LinkShare Pre-recorded Publisher Training Web Seminars
As many of you may already know, LinkShare offers live Web seminar training courses free to all publishers. These courses are held weekly on Fridays at 1pm Eastern. To register for an event or to see the schedule of upcoming seminars, please visit the LinkShare .EDU resource center.

What you may not know is that we also offer recordings of these events for you to view at your own convenience. These recordings are accessible 24/7 and discuss all of the basics you need to know in order to optimize your partnership with LinkShare. You can view any of our 5 beginner-level seminar recordings.

If you have any questions regarding the Publisher Training Web seminars, please contact:

Sylvia Kim
webseminars@linkshare.com