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Welcome to the March Publisher Newsletter! We are on the cusp of Spring and to complement the new beginnings of the forthcoming season, we have some exciting new campaigns, events, advertisers and tools for you! Registration continues for the first ever LinkShare Symposium UK to be held in London this April! This is a great opportunity for you to forge new partnerships and grow relationships within the UK network. To get a head start before Symposium, there are plenty of opportunities to grow relationships immediately by getting involved in campaigns including Mother's Day, and our ongoing 2009 campaign - Green Season! And to help you get your links up faster and with greater ease, we've just launched the new Publisher Dashboard Deep Link Interface where you can create deep links for multiple advertisers all in one place. Finally, you can get started on forging new partnerships with some of our newest advertisers, highlighted in this month's Advertiser Spotlight. Get involved today!
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REMINDER: Register now for LinkShare Symposium UK
Have you registered for the LinkShare Symposium UK?
The event, being held at the Congress Centre in central London on Thursday 2nd April, combines industry insight with intensive networking to allow you to forge new partnerships and grow existing relationships with the UK advertiser base. So if you haven't registered yet, please take a few seconds to do so now.
News - We are happy to welcome House of Fraser as the Platinum Sponsor of LinkShare Symposium UK. House of Fraser is Britain's leading department store of designer brands ranging from clothing and accessories for men, women and children to famous beauty brands and products for the home.
Keynote Session - Get the inside track on trends defining our industry in 2009. We will be presenting the results of survey commissioned by LinkShare with Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, which takes a fresh look at what defines an online consumer, how they are behaving in the current economic climate, where they are going for information and how they can best be targeted.
DealMaker - the afternoon tradeshow session allows you to meet Advertisers face-to-face to discuss ways to grow your business, discover new opportunities to work together to reach common objectives and equip you with new ideas to maximise your affiliate initiatives.
Click here for complete details on what's going on at LinkShare Symposium UK 2009.
Don't miss this chance to make connections with the right people and solidify better partnerships!
We look forward to seeing many of you there.
Penny Mather, Marketing Manager |
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Announcing the new Publisher Dashboard Deep Link Interface!
On March 10th we released a new Deep Linking interface in the Dashboard. You can use this feature to create LinkShare tracking links to any page on an Advertiser's site.
In order for an Advertiser to support this feature they must be enabled for LinkBuilder. The functionality of this tool is similar to that of LinkBuilder, except now you can create deep links for multiple advertisers all in one place.
Using the new interface is easy:
- In a new tab, navigate to a page on an advertiser site you'd like to link to
- Select the advertiser from the drop down
- Choose your output format. You can create just a tracking link, a text link, or an image link. If an image link, input the image URL
- If you'd like to append a U1 value, enter the U1
- Hit Create Link
Try it out today!
Other Deep Linking Options - Bookmarklet
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The "bookmarklet" tool makes it much easier to use the LinkGenerator service to create a commission-paying link for any merchant with whom you are partnered. Think of a bookmarklet as a web browser bookmark with some built-in functionality. For example, many social sites use bookmarklets to allow users to share sites from around the web. This tool will make it easier than ever to create deep links on an advertisers site, without having to log in to the publisher dashboard.
The tool will only work with advertisers you are partnered with, and sales generated will report as LinkBuilder links. Please note that this is just a beta tool that we are testing. When the bookmarklet has passed the testing stage successfully, we'll launch it to a wide audience; this may require you to "rebuild" the bookmarklet. |
Easy Install:
- Get your token from your LinkShare account on this page.
- Paste it in the Token box on this page.
- This will turn into a link when you input a token with 64 characters. In Firefox drag this link to your toolbar. In IE, right-click and add to favorites.
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Generate Link Code:
- Look for items by browsing through the websites of your partners. (This will only work if you're approved by the merchant.)
- Click on the LinkGenerator button that you just created on your toolbar.
- A window with the URL will appear. You can cut and paste it wherever you like.
The link code that is generated will be instantly updated in our database and will redirect the user to the product page immediately.
- When your readers click on this link, they'll be taken to the partner's page and you'll receive a commission when they purchase.
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Darren Newmark, Network Development Manager
What's in a Link?
Have you ever wondered, what's in a link? A link is a link, is a link. But by any other name, will it still track your commissions? Let's take a look. Here is a typical example:
http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=KgGHO0LswUU&offerid=85078.10058801&type=4
Now let's break it down.
click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click
This identifies the link as coming from LinkShare.
?id=KgGHO0LswUU
This is your unique, 11-digit Publisher code, which was assigned to you when you registered as a LinkShare Publisher. If you get a link from within your account in the LinkShare interface, this id automatically populates.
&offerid=85078.10058801
Before the decimal, the numbers indicate the specific offer that your link identifies. After the decimal, the numbers track clicks and may also indicate the landing page to which the link goes.
&type=4
This is the link type.Here is a list of the various link types offered by LinkShare:
1 Email
2 Product
3 Text
4 Banner
5 Searchbox
6 StoreFront
10 LinkBuilder
14 Dynamic Rich Media
15 Merchandiser
Now that we have Deep Linking available, creating links is easier than ever! Please see Product Update to learn more about our new, deep linking feature.
Dave McCarthy, Network Development Coordinator
Advertiser Spotlight
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Cult Beauty: 8.% - 10% commission on all goods . Cult Beauty is a new kind of online beauty boutique and e-zine, retailing only the best in beauty and grooming products and writing agenda-setting editorial and beauty news.
Cult Beauty is a new kind of online beauty boutique and e-zine, retailing only the best in beauty and grooming products and writing agenda-setting editorial and beauty news.
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The Ladders: £2.50 flat commission for every lead received+ 10% on Premium memberships purchased. TheLadders.co.uk is the leading jobsite focused on £50k+ jobs and jobseekers in the UK.
TheLadders.co.uk ran a large-scale television campaign in January and February 2009. We need you to convert this awareness into online activity.
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Lipsy: Introductory 8% commission on all goods through March 2009! 6% Commission on all goods ongoing.
Lipsy are a young British fashion brand founded in the heart of London. Loved by fashionistas and celebrities alike, Lipsy are dedicated to ensuring the hottest looks move from catwalk to high street in the blink of an eye. Join now!
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Uniqlo: Earn double commission on all orders from 10th March to 10th April. 5% - 7% Commission on all goods ongoing.
UNIQLO designs, manufactures, markets and sells casual wear that can be worn by anyone, any day. We encourage you to join the UNIQLO affiliate program to take advantage of the style and quality that is inherent in the UNIQLO name.
Join now!
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Current Campaigns
Mother's Day is March 22nd, and with less than two weeks to go, now is the perfect time to promote fantastic offers and gifts for mums! |
We're kicking off Green Season with St. Patrick's Day, Tuesday 17th March!
To get things started we have a mix of offers and suggested products with a green theme for you to promote. |
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