Kamis, 11 Desember 2008

ConnectCommerce scheduled maintenance

We will be performing routine maintenance on Friday night December 12, 2008 8:00 P.M. EST through Saturday December 13, 2008 4:00 A.M. EST.

Although you won't be able to log in to
ConnectCommerce during the maintenance window, tracking will NOT be affected. However, reporting data may be delayed for a few hours after the interface comes back online.

Jorge Zapata
Online Sales & Operations

Senin, 17 November 2008

Google Ad Planner Data Now Available in Google Affiliate Network


This weekend we introduced new site profile links in our interface to provide users with better information about the traffic profiles of their marketing partners. Advertiser and publisher users will now see "Site Profile" links in a variety of locations in our interface. Advertisers can view them from their list of approved publishers or from any individual publishers account profile. Publishers may view this information on their not joined, approved pages as well as in the interface to retrieve links (ads).

The links will produce an overlay containing data provided by Google AdPlanner. The profile contains information on unique visitors, page views and visitor demographic profiles; data may not be available for sites with smaller audiences. For more information on Ad Planner, please visit their support site.

Larry Adams
Product Manager

Senin, 13 Oktober 2008

New Google Affiliate Network Features: Data Feed UI, Link Subscriptions and Batch Creative Uploads

We deployed some new features over the weekend that we hope will help our users manage some important day to day tasks.

Product data feed setup in the UI

Publishers can now sign up for data feeds from through our user interface by navigating to 'Get Links > Product Feeds.' The page will be populated with your approved advertisers that offer a data feed, establishes a file naming convention for all of the feeds the you select to receive from Google advertisers and validates your FTP information. If you have previously set up feeds via our support team your existing settings have not changed, but any settings you adjust in the interface will override previous settings.

Link Subscriptions (formerly known as OrangeLinks)

We've also made a minor name change to our service that delivers feeds of promotional data to publishers. OrangeLinks will now appear in the interface as Link Subscriptions. The functionality has not changed; publishers who sign up for link subscriptions receive a daily file of new ads that their approved advertisers have created in the system. If you are already signed up, you should be aware that the filename format will be changing to "Link Subscriptions_MMDDYYYY.xls". If you haven't signed up, you should navigate to 'Get Links > Link Subscriptions' to get started; many publishers use this feature to quickly review every promotion their advertisers offer.

Batch Creative Upload

Advertisers may now upload creative assets in large batches. Loading creatives one by one is time consuming so we've added a feature to creative management that allows advertisers to upload zip files containing multiple creatives. We expect this will be a huge time saver in the busy Q4 season for many of our users.

Help Center

In case you missed it, we recently announced that we've launched a new help center. There is a lot of great content in there and we'll be adding more in the future. If you haven't checked it out yet, please take a minute to browse the advertiser and publisher docs.

Regards,

Larry Adams
Product Manager

Jumat, 10 Oktober 2008

Google Affiliate Network Scheduled Downtime

We will be performing system maintenance beginning Friday evening, Oct 10 at 9pm CDT. We expect the interface to be back online at 5pm CDT Saturday. Tracking is unaffected during this time but the affiliate network interface will be unavailable during this time.

Have a good weekend,

Larry Adams
Product Manager

Senin, 29 September 2008

Google Affiliate Network Help Center Launched

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Help Center for both advertisers and publishers. Content includes basic information on account settings, running reports and performing common tasks. In addition, you will be able to submit questions directly to our support team via the Help Center in the event that you are unable to find the information you need. Please be sure to check the Help Center for all your support questions on current and new features.

Sheila Parker
Product Manager

Jumat, 19 September 2008

Google Affiliate Network Scheduled Downtime

Dear Google Affiliate Network Users:
The interface will be unavailable, beginning Friday, September 19th, so we can perform system maintenance. This outage may last up to 20 hours, from 10:00 p.m. EDT (2:00 a.m. GMT, September 20th) to no later than 6:00 p.m. EDT, Saturday, September 20th (10:00 p.m. GMT). You will be able to log in again when the maintenance work is completed.

Thanks and have a good weekend.

Larry Adams
Product Manager

Senin, 18 Agustus 2008

New Google Affiliate Network Features: Rising Stars, Recruiting Tools and Links UI

This past weekend we launched several enhancements to our platform for both publishers and advertisers. First, we introduced a new level of publisher recognition to enhance our successful Affiliate VIP program. Our network quality and publisher development teams collaborate to identify and champion up and coming, quality publishers in our network. This designation, Rising Stars, is now visible in the interface and we're happy to announce over fifty rising stars have been identified in the network to coincide with the launch of this feature. Publishers who have attained this designation will be presented to advertisers with an icon next to their name.

Advertisers may now utilize our recruiting features (Publishers > Recruiting) to retrieve lists of Rising Stars and Affiliate VIPs in their program, or those with whom they do not yet have a relationship. As a reminder, if you are a publisher and want to be "found" by advertisers looking for new publishers, be sure to update your communications preferences (existing publishers may click here, or navigate to Settings > Communication Preferences) and opt in to "Non Joined Advertiser Opportunities".

We have also released improvements to the features publishers use to retrieve ads from our interface. We have had a new UI available in beta for a little over six months; during this time we've heard from users that it was much easier and faster to find and publish links than in our old interface. Based on feedback from the beta period, we have added some functionality and improved response times. Publisher users can now:
  • View ads for multiple advertisers at a time by showing recently published ads from all advertisers or only approved advertisers
  • Filter the multi-advertiser page by advertiser category
  • Filter the multi-advertiser page by hiding specific advertisers from view
  • View a list of all ads for each of their joined advertisers
  • Filter single and multi-advertiser lists by ad type (banner or text), size, promotion type and expiration
  • All pages include an export feature that will enable the user to save the list, including any applied filters, to a csv file
Bookmarks to the old versions of "get links" pages will be redirected to the new UI. If you have written scripts to retrieve links from the old pages they will no longer work; instead, you should sign up to receive daily automated feeds of new ads for all your advertisers by navigating to Get Links > OrangeLinks.

Posted by Larry Adams, Product Manager

Senin, 07 Juli 2008

ConnectCommerce Update

We are pleased to unveil a refreshed ConnectCommerce user interface. We have made improvements to overall navigation and usability and have updated colors and styles to reflect the new Google Affiliate Network brand. This update should leave the interface simpler to understand and navigate. Please note that we are not currently integrated with Google Accounts and you must continue to use your ConnectCommerce username and password to log in.


Google is dedicated to providing the best possible user experience. This release is another step toward our goal of improving user experience and delivering value for our partners.

ConnectCommerce is the reporting and tracking platform that powers Google Affiliate Network.

Kristin Hall, Industry Marketing Manager, Google Affiliate Network

Senin, 30 Juni 2008

DoubleClick Performics is now Google Affiliate Network

We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google's brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google's commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our new colleagues at Google we are creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing.

Within the next couple of weeks you will see some exciting changes to the user interface reflecting the new brand. The platform will continue to be hosted at www.ConnectCommerce.com, but will eventually migrate to a google.com product url.

As noted in earlier communications, DoubleClick Performics' Search operations are being spun off and sold to a third party. While many advertisers have relationships with both DoubleClick Performics' Affiliate and Search, there have always been separate account teams and product-specific specialists servicing clients' search and affiliate programs. These teams remain intact. While the formal separation will occur when the Search business is sold, the businesses are functionally separate today.

We are proud of what we achieved as Performics and this name change signals a new milestone. Google provides world-class resources and enables us to continue to attract the best talent to support our advertisers and publishers. Now as part of Google we have an exciting and unprecedented opportunity to advance our industry. We remain committed to ensuring you receive the quality service you have come to expect from us.

We appreciate your business and look forward to doing great things together.