Rakuten Advertising
- Kim Cashwell (Unlicensed)
- Steve Thompson (Unlicensed)
About
Japan-headquartered Rakuten Advertising has about 1,800 merchants in FMTC. According to Crunchbase, the company was founded in New York in 1996 as LinkShare. Japan-based Rakuten bought LinkShare in 2005.
Links / Social
FMTC Integration Status
Parsers
Merchant Sync
FreshReachSM
Product Feed
Finding your Network ID
The Site ID listed in the upper right corner of the Rakuten Advertising Admin is NOT your Publisher ID
Log into https://rakutenadvertising.com/
Click on the Links in the horizontal main menu
You should see a list of the advertisers you have joined, click on the first one
In the left menu under Links by Type, click on Text/Email
You should now see a list of links
If you do not see any text links try either go back to step 3 OR go back to step 4 and use a different type of link (i.e. Banner Link )
Click the Get Link button on the far right of the first link listed
A new page should pop up. In the text box at the bottom of it you should see an example link for this merchant formatted similarly to the example below
Use the ID after the id= , as highlighted in red
http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=ACCOUNTID&offerid=111111.10000000&type=3&subid=0
Link Structures
Last Updated: 01/06/2021
For questions and additional information, please contact the network.
Parameters
Parameter | Purpose |
|---|---|
id= | This is a unique 11-character code that identifies which Publisher a click came from. It is case-sensitive and can be found in any of your links. |
mid= | The ID of the advertiser whose site you are creating a link to. This can be found in the Publisher Dashboard by clicking Programs > My Advertisers and then clicking the advertiser's log and Advertiser Info at left. |
mURL= | The URL where your site visitors will be taken. The special characters in this URL must be URL-encoded. |
ul= | An optional parameter. Signature Publishers use this to track sub-sites and members. |
URL Structures
Examples
http%://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=AFFILIATEID&offerid=% |
http%://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=AFFILIATEID&offerid=%&type=% |
http%://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=AFFILIATEID&offerid=%&type=%&subid=% |
http%://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=AFFILIATEID&subid=%&offerid=%&type=%&tmpid=%&RD_PARM1=http% |
http%://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=AFFILIATEID&mid=%&murl=% |
Additional Resources
Please visit Deep Linking Structure: Creating Tracking Links Outside the Publisher Dashboard – Publisher Help Center (rakutenmarketing.com) for more information.