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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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7 Ways to Recycle Your Website Article Content

As an online marketer, you want to get the most “bang for your buck” with the time and money you spend on website and blog content creation. Quality online content is an inbound marketing magnet–it’s what attracts the search engines and the visitors to your site for you to convert them to sales.   Your website content (articles, blog posts, video, images, audio, etc.) is a valuable business asset. Treat is as such. Here are seven ideas to get you started: Start with an article or blog post about an interesting topic for visitors to your site (also use keyword research

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CSS Design Tip: A Time to Print

Using  CSS to provide a printer-friendly document One of the basic concepts in web design is making things simple and user friendly. As a designer, I’m always looking for new and innovative ways to serve information to my client’s audience. A simple principle to understand, but not always simple to execute, is producing a printer-friendly version of your website content. The need for printer-friendly web pages is especially necessary if your audience wants to print coupons, articles, receipts, recipes or even itineraries. By simply pushing the print button your audience can be at the mercy of how their printer handles

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Using the Signature Reports Web Service

To make the process of getting the Signature Report more efficient, we offer a Web Services option.  It enables Publishers who use Signature tracking to get reporting data for a specified time period, without logging in to the Publisher Dashboard. A Publisher can also automate the process of retrieving transaction and associated member ID information on a daily basis via a wget call.   This Web Service is a  flexible way for publishers that rely on Signature to generate a Signature sales report. What is Signature? Signature enables Publisher to track transactions on the sub-level. Signature can be used to track

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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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