The Problem with LinkShare

[Ryan]

Common complaint of affiliates from LinkShare was with expired promotions and coupons. There are links having expiration dates listed, but are a year or more past that date. Even some don’t have expiration dates listed, but are no longer valid once tested.

To amend this issue, LinkShare implemented a start and end date for all creatives.

According to ActualAffiliates.com:

"That’s great, unfortunately, all they did was adding a default start and end date to every link in Linkshare saying : Valid between 27-feb-2007 - 01-Mar-2012. Now even the obviously expired links who have an expiration date listed, show they are still valid until 2012.

How is this improving anything? Is this helping affiliates ? No is doesn’t. It’s still up to the affilate to track expiration dates, and remove expired links."

[affinews]

The network is too big to constantly monitor their promotions. They should have enabled their promotion to be time-sensitive or having shorter promo duration. Setting it up to 2012 is to complicated as a lot of things happen between 2007 and 2012.

[Ryan]

that's the common problem in big networks...I hope I am not generalizing...but somehow, the growth outruns the company!