With the Advertiser Search Web Service, you can retrieve a list of all your advertisers and their MIDs or simply a single advertiser’s MID in the blink of an eye — without logging into the Publisher Dashboard! This is especially useful if you utilize any of LinkShare’s Web Services in which MID is an important parameter.
- To get a list of all your advertisers and their MIDs, simply append your Web Services token to the token= parameter of this query:
http://feed.linksynergy.com/merchantsearch?token=[your Web Services token]
Your Web Services token can be found here.
- To retrieve the MID of a single advertiser, append the parameter merchantname= after your Web Services token. Here’s a sample query:
http://feed.linksynergy.com/merchantsearch?token=[your Web Services token]&merchantname=tigerdirect
Please note: if the name of the advertiser you are searching for includes one or more words, include spaces between the words in your query.
The Advertiser Search API only returns advertisers whose programs you have been approved for. It is similar to the Consolidated Advertiser Report, available on the Publisher Dashboard, but since you don’t have to log into the dashboard to get a list of your advertisers or just a single advertiser, you can use it with other LinkShare Web Services.
For example, let’s say you want to see if one of your advertisers has links to mp3 players. Run an Advertiser Search query with the advertiser name to find the MID of the advertiser whose products you want to search. Then use the Merchandiser Query Tool to see if this advertiser has links for mp3 players.
For info on Merchandiser Query Tool, please see this article.
Penny Mather, Marketing Manager
