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Using the Coupon Web Service for Black Friday/Cyber Monday offers

The LinkShare Coupon Web Service is a great way for you to access coupon and promotional links from your Advertisers without logging in to the Publisher Dashboard!   We’ve created an easy way for you to post all of your Black Friday & Cyber Monday coupons and promotions using our Coupon Web Service.  These offers are compelling to consumers and therefore more likely to convert on some of the busiest shopping days of the year. In order to use the Web Service you’ll send a “request” to LinkShare’s servers. LinkShare will then provide a “response” to the request in XML

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The fast, easy way to get a list of all your advertisers and their MID’s

With the Advertiser Search Web Service, you can retrieve a list of all your advertisers and their MIDs or simply a single advertiser’s MID in the blink of an eye — without logging into the Publisher Dashboard! This is especially useful if you utilize any of LinkShare’s Web Services in which MID is an important parameter. To get a list of all your advertisers and their MIDs, simply append your Web Services token to the token= parameter of this query: http://feed.linksynergy.com/merchantsearch?token=[your Web Services token] Your Web Services token can be found here. To retrieve the MID of a single advertiser,

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Link Locator Web Service Update

Link Locator 2.0 is a web service that provides current Advertiser information and allows Publishers to download different types of creative from their Advertisers, without logging into the LinkShare Publisher Interface.   This automated access provides the most recent creative and coupons, which can be used to update sites directly.  In addition, the web service is supported by a wide range of commonly used development platforms. Today, you can access two versions of Link Locator – 1.0 and 2.0.  On March 1st, Link Locator 1.0 will be replaced and upgraded to Link Locator 2.0. There are several changes and improvement in

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LinkShare Web Services Explained

LinkShare offers several web service API’s for more technically savvy Publishers and web Developers.  Our web services enable partners to get data from the LinkShare system over the web, without logging in to the Publisher Dashboard.  The web services return information formatted in XML.  Technically savvy Publishers use the XML results to integrate LinkShare tracking links into their websites.  Here’s a brief overview of LinkShare web services: Merchandiser Query Tool The Merchandiser Query Tool uses a REST-based web service which allows you to do a full-text search for products in an advertisers Merchandiser product feed.  It is only available for

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