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Dude their a reputable affiliate company that's all you really need to know. Are you really planning on basing your decision on whether or not to join if some random posters had a good or bad exerience?
I guess you didn't get my post...I was asking for peoples opinions if they actually USED the network. Before being a douche bag and not contributing to the thread in the least bit, why don't you take a big fucking look under my profile and you'll be able to see I joined a year before you. I kind of know what I am doing around here. So, have a great night.
And not necessarily, I just wanted the over all opinion of wickedfire members etc. If I wanted bullshit answers and responses I would of went to digital point.
So you've been here quite a while, and still can't do a search on the forum? You need to be more specific with your question, or you'll get bullshit responses.
Does their reporting suck? Yes. Does their interface suck? Yes. Do their advertisers pay? Most of the time, same shit you might deal with in any network. Do they front money for advertisers? No. Do their advertisers fit what you're looking for? Who knows. Haven't found anything to promote there until recently. Does their tracking platform suck? Yes. Linking to an offer with URL safe code (& instead of just &) still breaks the entire tracking process, and they've known about that issue for nearly a decade.
I'll give you my true opinion now on Linkshare - I've been a member of Linkshare since December 2000, and only recently started pushing any volume to them, in their lead advantage network. And then one advertiser pulled their offer, without notice, with shitty communication from my rep at Linkshare.
Will your experience be the same? Test and find out...
Linkshare and CJ are basically the same thing. They are big and reputable companies that have a monopoly on the major retail outlets. They mainly pay based on CPS and are very "hands off" with the affiliates, unlike some of the popular CPA Networks you hear about on the forums.
CJ is far better than LS in my experience. Maybe because CJ's system is a lot better, I've run tons of offers from them in the past 4 years or so, and I make enough that I do have a rep there who can pull for me or get me exclusive offers/privileges. I've worked on the advertiser end of programs on both CJ, and Linkshare, and from that angle as well, I prefer CJ.
Why not just test the doggone thing out? Use WFReview to pull in 5-10 merchant datafeeds to 2-5 sites and do it the easy way. Tutorial started here: WFReview Tutorial
Troof. LS interface sucks.
Hello friend,
There people that make hundreds thousands dollars day with LinkShare and there people that make zero day with LinkShare.
Good luck bro
There people that make hundreds thousands dollars day with LinkShare and there people that make zero day with LinkShare.
Good luck bro
As a new user, to access merchant feeds:
Then sit in linkshare for 3 months and use Shareasale and CommissionJunction!
Is that documented anywhere in the LS interface? I think you told me about that a while ago; can't believe it's still an issue.
It was confirmed on another forum about a year ago, and it's still documented at LinkShare Publisher Help Center :: Common linking code problems . The first mention I can find of this is from an article from 2000, so I'm right about the decade thing.
Funny thing - Every other network that's been around for a while has changed how they track, or offer alternate URL structures (and none of those were really broken to begin with - CJ, Azoogle, DT) for different purposes. The one network with a tracking problem has kept their URL structure and theoretically the same back-end for a decade. Great technology, Linkshare.
Linkshare still thinks it's 1999 and they suck.
Their tracking system sucks and their support system sucks. And yet, I still do business with them because they have offers I can't get anywhere else.
Over the past two years, I've tried repeatedly (like five times, including twice on the phone with a rep.) to get Linshare to hook me up with direct deposit of my payments. And each time the change seems to go through, but in reality nothing happens. They continue to send me five checks a month, one for each of my linked accounts. (Don't get me started on the supposed necessity of having a separate account for each website.)
They're the only affiliate network I deal with who can't even fucking manage their payment system properly.
But, they do eventually pay, and some of the offers are pretty good.
Their tracking system sucks and their support system sucks. And yet, I still do business with them because they have offers I can't get anywhere else.
Over the past two years, I've tried repeatedly (like five times, including twice on the phone with a rep.) to get Linshare to hook me up with direct deposit of my payments. And each time the change seems to go through, but in reality nothing happens. They continue to send me five checks a month, one for each of my linked accounts. (Don't get me started on the supposed necessity of having a separate account for each website.)
They're the only affiliate network I deal with who can't even fucking manage their payment system properly.
But, they do eventually pay, and some of the offers are pretty good.