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Please see the tutorial Using Affiliate Creatives for an example of how an affiliate uses a creative. |
Managed Link
A managed link simply allows you to control what marketing content is associated with a link and the landing page the customer is sent.
Once you have a creative, created you can now setup Managed Links. To do this simply click "New" to be take to the configuration screen.
From here you can provide the link with a name and select the link type. For this example with will use the Text type.
As you can see because we selected "Text" as our type we are prompted to select the text we would like to use. In this case we only have one text creative available so we only have one option, but in your case you may have multipe text creatives in which case you would select the one you want to assign within your managed links.
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| Name | The name of the link, visible to the affiliate. |
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| Type | The selected "type" of managed link: Image, Invisible, or Text. |
| Select | The type selected will determine the selector that is available. |
| Target | The location the customer will be send to when using the link. This can be the Home page of your website along with any custom URL and product page set as a item level commission. |
| Allow Custom Landing Page | This check box, will allow the affiliate to set a custom landing page when viewing the link. |
Simple Links
The simple link section allows you to configure very direct links to your site without any marketing content (images, text, etc.). Simple links appear on the affiliate dashboard and are easy for the affiliate to quickly start using.
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Answer: If you navigate to the affiliate links tab and edit the image creative, the deployed links will display the updated creative image upon the next page load where the affiliate link is deployed. If this is in regard to a managed link and you are only changing the default image (assuming you have multiple images configured int he managed link) the deplyed deployed link will retain the image that was configured at the time of the deployment. (You would need to instruct the affiliate to log into their affiliate dashboard and navigate to the "Manage Links" page and then edit the deployed link and then in the editor choose the other image then save the changes then redeploy the new affiliate link code.
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