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Announcing our bookmarklet for Tumblr!

Tumblr is a rapidly growing micro-blogging platform.  Publishers  use Tumblr to share text, photos, audio, pictures, video on a customized site.  Learn more about their service on their about page. The Tumblr bookmarklet in the LinkShare Bento Box, called TumblrShop, empowers Publishers to easily promote products they like on their Tumblog and earn commission doing so.  Here’s how to use TumblrShop: Go to this TumblrShop bookmarklet page in the LinkShare Bento Box Inpout your token and click-and-drag the “TumblrShop” link to your browser bookmarks bar.  You’ll only have to do this once. Navigate to an Advertiser page you want to

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Announcing enhancements to our LinkGenerator bookmarklet

We’ve made two enhancements to our LinkGenerator deep linking bookmarklet! Publishers can now- Add a U1 value, if you use Signature to track sub-sites or members Append promotional text and get back an HTML link For those of you that are not familiar with the LinkGenerator bookmarklet, you can use it to create a tracking link to a specific page on an Advertiser site…with the click of a button!   Creating targeted tracking links has never been easier.  You can also easily share the link with your Facebook and Twitter followers. This is what the pop-up window will look like after you’ve clicked

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A new way to build tracking links

We recently introduced a new way for Publishers to easily create tracking links outside of the Dashboard. We now have linking format that provides Publishers with the ability to generate clickable links to pages on an advertiser’s site, without logging into the Publisher Dashboard or making a Web service call. You can use a simple template per Advertiser, and the link you create is directly clickable.   This feature can also be used to build applications that automate the conversion of Advertiser URL’s to network tracking links. To generate a tracking link, you will attach an &id=, &mid=, and &murl= value as name-value

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Retiring Linkbuilder in favor of the Deep Linking Interface

We wanted to give Publishers a heads up that we will be retiring Linkbuilder tomorrow night.  The Deep Linking Interface offers this same function, PLUS improved usability and enhancements such as the ability to create deep links for multiple Advertisers in one place, create multiple links at once, export to CSV, and easy U1 support. The key things to be aware of are that – The Linkbuilder icon will be gone from the Advertiser Details Page Linkbuilder as a link type will be called “Deep Links” in Reporting You’ll find the new Deep Linking Interface in the Publisher Dashboard here,

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Enhancement to our Deep Linking Interface

In March we released a new Deep Linking Interface in the Publisher Dashboard. This tool makes it easy for you to select a page or pages from an advertiser site and create tracking links to those pages. We’ve added a refinement to make it even easier for you to use this tool. After you select the advertiser from the drop down, a link that says “Browse Advertiser Site” will appear. Clicking on this link will open up the advertiser’s site in a new window. You’ll find a few screenshots below: And after you click the link – Try out the

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