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Linkshare to offer merchant RSS feeds?
Chris Sanderson of AMWSO recently posted on his ABW forum about an email that he got from linkshare announcing the launch of pre-coded merchant RSS feeds…
I don’t have any such email in my inbox yet, possibly the announcement just went out to merchants so they may set up their RSS feeds and affiliates might be told about this after some merchants have their feeds ready.
Looks like this is yet another step by linkshare on what is looking like a series of improvements to the oldest affiliate network on the web.
Update: Just got the email from LS
“For more information on setting up RSS feeds, select RSS Resource Page from the Home tab in the Affiliate Interface. RSS feeds do not eliminate the need for you to log into your LinkShare account, but will make it easier for you to get promotional links directly from your Merchants. Please keep in mind that Merchants may not be offering feeds right away as it might take them a while to set up the feeds.”
There’s also another new feature from Linkshare starting today - Affiliates can access and use product thumbnail images for individual product links directly from the affiliate interface.
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It’s great to see this tool on LinkShare, I know merchants and affiliates have been asking for it for a long time! I’ve yet to use it yet but it will be interesting to see how it works in practice.
Thanks for commenting, Chris!
I am sure that RSS feeds are a great addition to linkshare’s affiliate tools and will make it super-easy for affiliates to know new offers/coupons and get expiration notifications etc, but there also seems to be the possibility of (bad) affiliates misusing RSS feeds to auto-generate Webpages and crowd google’s index and all, I hope LS will have some sort of security measures etc to prevent this from happening.
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