Archive for October, 2009

Unless you’ve been living underground, you probably know the phenomena that is Twitter so we won’t go into much detail.  Twitter describes itself on it’s home page as a place to “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.”  Plus, people do so in 140 characters or less.
Imagine an [...]

As you may have heard, an update over the weekend to some anti-virus software from a company called AVG is interfering with some LinkShare links between affiliates and advertisers. We assume this was unintentional. We discussed this with executives at AVG this morning, and expect this matter will be resolved soon.
We will post more as [...]

Last night we released a few enhancements to our Product that we wanted to share with you.
Coupon Web Service
The LinkShare Coupon Web Service is a new API for you to access coupon and promotional links from your Advertisers, without logging in to the Publisher Dashboard! These coupon and promotional links are compelling to consumers [...]

1. Update Your Meta Data: Important pages within the site you want to drive traffic to should have up to date, specific keyword targeted meta data. Meta data includes your title, descriptions and yes keywords, too!
2. Build Out Pages: Create more pages targeting the products you are focusing on should be targeted. The more those [...]

You may have read about the discussion surrounding questions of disclosure of financial relationships between bloggers and advertisers. At issue is when a blogger should disclose the fact they are receiving payments from an advertiser when writing about their products.
The Performance Marketing Alliance has posted an opinion by  two attorneys with experience in [...]