I have never seen this before but no matter what or how I try to get into the Link Maker Tool I get this message:
Quote:Your request produced an error.
[newNullResponse]
Anyone else having issues?
I was playing with it yesterday so its got to be less then 24 hours of downtime...
TradeDoubler sent this out last week that seems to explain the outtage:
A number of you have requested our help these past few days with creating links, we hope to have been efficient in providing them to you. The launch of the new iTunes software iTunes 8.1 with it's new and exciting features also meant that we had to adapt our tools. Please click here to discover and download the new iTunes software. We do apologise for any inconvenience caused by this, and hope you will be as excited as us to discover the new iTunes.
All tools are now working correctly. Although tracking has not been affected by these changes, sales should only show by the end of this week.
Meanwhile we would like to invite you to visit our portal on TradeDoubler to discover the latest creatives we have designed for you.
Many thanks,
iTunes affiliate team
It looks like the Link Maker Tool is down again. Just a heads up to everyone building links to double check the code to make sure it goes through the affiliate network first.
This is not good code:
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/daughter/id162244104?i=162244187&uo=6"><img height="15" width="61" alt="Pearl Jam - Vs. - Daughter" src="http://ax.itunes.apple.com/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" /></a>
iTunes just changed their link structure, but I'm pretty sure the old structure still works just fine. Just a heads up that maybe sometime in the future we may need to change a lot of our links.
Do we need to change all of our links? My numbers are still way down.
I think that your old links should still work. iTunes is now calling them "Legacy" links but I'm pretty sure they've decided to continue to support them. I would say leave all of your old links the same, but from now on try to new link structure. The new ones look prettier anyway
I think the HMTL code generated by the iTunes Link Maker provides both an iTunes graphic as well as a direct link into the iTunes Store.
Yeah, it looks like you now have three options for output with the new (like in the last month??) Link Maker - Big button, small button and text link.
Way better tool now!
With Link Maker, you can create links to content on iTunes and the App Store, then put these links on your website or in your application. The iTunes Link Maker is an online tool that anyone can use to generate links to any artist, song or album available on iTunes Store.