The LinkShare UK blog announced that they are experimenting with a bookmarklet that makes it easier to use their LinkGenerator service, which enables affiliates to easily create an affiliate link while writing a post in WordPress.
The bookmarklet is sort of a web browser bookmark with some built-in functionality.
For example, many social sites use bookmarklets to allow users to share sites from around the web. This tool will make it easier than ever to create deep links on an advertiser site, without having to log in to the publisher dashboard.
There are currently more than a couple dozen merchants available through the LinkShare bookmarklet.
I checked with LinkShare about browser compatibility, and they confirmed that the bookmarklet works with FireFox, IE, Chrome, and Safari.
More details at http://www.linkshareblog.co.uk/2009/02/build-your-own-deep-linking-bookmarklet/.
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Your Message@Shawn Collins:
Hello Shawn, Thanks for the heads-up. I’m looking forward to it and hoping to see something good for our industry. Your contributions to the affiliate industry are amazing and my two hands are less to applaud for your support. I will try my best to contribute to the FeedFront magazine. Warm Regards, Dev.
Your Message@DevDuff:
Hi Dev – Yes, I am aware of the way toolbars overwrite cookies. That is why we’ve had sessions at the past two Affiliate Summits on the ethics of affiliate marketing, as well as other sessions at previous Affiliate Summits related to the issue. And I’ve been on ABW regularly since 2002 to catch up on news and information. Keep a lookout for the next announcement where we are looking for content for FeedFront magazine and feel free to submit a proposal to write an article on this subject.
Your Message@Shawn Collins:
Hi Shawn, I understand and agree that saying bad to whole network is not good. I understand that OneCause is one division of Rakuten and Linkshare is another division. However, I’m not talking about just one company. I have given many examples of toolbar affiliates at ABW. These toolbars go along with each shopper and when shoppers are about to make a purchase, they drop down, pop-up, flash indicators and what not, I’m sure you are aware of this unethical behavior of toolbars. Our shoppers are being redirected to other sites where the cookies are over-written. You may check the FF addon page at Mozilla and search for coupons, you will find 16 such toolbars. Secondly, there may be thousands of more such toolbars/add-ons for IE. Recently, I explored the freelance sites like GetACoder, GetAFreelancer, etc. and I was amazed to find so many people asking for BHO toolbars and add-ons to redirect traffic just for $200. I believe, we can’t blame networks. Its the merchants who need to understand whats going on and accept only ethical internet marketers. There is a lot going at ABW and we have already started working on merchant contacts at AffiliateTrust.org. I’m a contributor there. I would request you to visit AT and see if you think what we are doing is going to benefit the whole affiliate industry or not. If you find it useful, I would hope that you join us to fight against these unscrupulous affiliate marketing companies, for a better cause. Regards, Dev.
Your Message@DevDuff:
Hi Dev – I think it’s silly to say any entire network is bad. Personally, I promote a wide array of companies across the networks – if I am not happy with the preliminary numbers, I move on to a competitor. I’ve experienced some rather high conversion rates with merchants many people claim to be thieves, so I like to test things out on my own, rather than painting with a broad brush.
Hi Shawn, With due respect, I wish to ask you whats the use of linking to LS anymore? I’m sure you are aware of Rakuten’s company OC which is no less than a thief and has been stealing our shoppers since many years. Not only that, there are thousands of other such toolbars. I wish if you could join us at ABestWeb.com forums and AffiliateTrust.org forums and read whats going on with these affiliate marketing networks. SAS was thought to be the cleanest, but now we know that thiefbars have existed in the affiliate industry since a long time. There is only one way to avoid all this continued thievery of sales/shoppers and commissions is by educating the merchants to police their affiliate programs and affiliates. I’m not sure where is our industry heading. God bless affiliate marketing industry. Regards, Dev.
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