New LinkShare WordPress plug-in: Link Lookup
I’m excited to tell you about a new plug-in for WordPress users called LinkShare Link Lookup. For those of you who are not familiar with WordPress, it is a free web publishing platform.
With Link Lookup you can do two things to help you earn revenue on your WordPress site, directly from the posting page.
- Create deep links – enter a URL on an advertiser site, and get back a tracking link with your id
- Search for product links – search across all your advertisers or a specific advertiser for a product link, and then click and drag that product link directly into the post
Here’s the quick guide to getting started:
- Download LinkShare Link Lookup from the plug-in directory
- Upload the files to your WordPress directory
- Activate the plug-in
- Enter your token in the Settings page
- Expand the plug-in by clicking the red arrows on the post page and start earning!
Here’s a screen shot of what Link Lookup looks like in the WordPress interface after it’s been expanded on the posting page (click to enlarge):
The plug-in is currently in Beta, please send e-mails to developers at linkshare dot com with feedback and requests.
Please note that you can only create links for advertisers whose program you are approved into. Deep linking is available for advertisers that are LinkBuilder enabled, and product link search for those advertisers with a Merchandiser data feed.
This should make integrating LinkShare commission-earning links with your WordPress website easier than ever!
Ian Rosenwach, Product Manager
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Wow, this looks really cool, very cleaver tool indeed.
This looks pretty handy. I hope to learn a bit more about it next week at the Symposium.
Trisha,
I’ll be there and will make sure to say hi.
- Ian
Looks good so far. The look up was pretty slow though a few times.
Can I embed linkshare links into my index page OR sidebar? If so, how? Thanks!
Ryan
PowerOfSpokenWord.com
this is a good idea but takes a bit of effort to do for each post. i reccomend using feed-word-press (aka syndicate post plugin) and use in conjunction with your linkshare data feeds. works as a great auto-content plugin. my site updates every 10 minutes based on teh linkshare data feeds
clhmedia,
We do offer something like that for our RSS feeds, please checkout AdMix -
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/linkshare-admix/
Ryan,
You can use DealFeed to embed LinkShare links in your sidebar – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/linksharerss-ads/
[...] Here is where you can download the Linkshare plug-in. [...]
[...] More details at http://www.linkshareblog.com/2009/01/13/new-linkshare-wordpress-plug-in-link-lookup/. [...]
Will this be updated to use on WP 2.7.1 because in this version the LinkShare Link Lookup doesn’t show up in the Settings menu.
wow ! I think it’s very nice.