{"id":429,"date":"2006-11-24T17:42:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T01:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2015-07-24T07:19:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:19:20","slug":"merchants-please-keep-your-links-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/merchants-please-keep-your-links-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchants: PLEASE Keep Your Links Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheese me. <\/strong>I was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=PvjioY3I0VU&#038;offerid=7097.10000013&#038;type=1&#038;subid=0\" rel=\"nofollow\" onMouseOut=\"window.status=''; return true\" onMouseOver=\"window.status='';  return true\" target=\"new\">Linkshare<\/a> interface the other night getting Allzine links for blog posting about on the <a href=\"http:\/\/RosalindGardner.me\">Roamsters.com<\/a> site. Thirty magazines were returned in the Travel &#038; Leisure category. I grabbed about ten of them, creating ten draft posts with magazine pictures and titles and planned to write descriptions of them later. <\/p>\n<p>Well, good thing I clicked on some of those links. More than half of them no longer exist in Allzine's product database. Really, when I searched the Travel &#038; Leisure category within Allzines itself, only 9 magazines were returned, meaning that 21 TWENTY-ONE!!!! of the Linkshare links were no good.<\/p>\n<p>Of the nine that WERE good, some of them had broken graphics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson to affiliates<\/strong>: Check the merchant's site first to see whether or not the product is still offered. It's a hassle, I know, but better than wasting your time putting up product links that don't work and thereby frustrating your visitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggestion to merchants<\/strong>: Kindly make sure your product links are up to date!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheese me. 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