Skimlinks

Skimlinks is a content monetization platform that helps online publishers monetize their forums, blogs, social networks, and applications. Founded in London back in 2007, the company raised millions of dollars in funding over the years and became one of the best-known affiliate marketing platforms in the UK. Their unique selling point is that the platform affiliates product links from customers’ commerce content completely automatically.

Their services are backed by some of the world’s most famous brands such as Yahoo!, Huffpost, Daily Mirror, and Mail Online. The company deals with enormous amounts of traffic with over $2.5 million affiliated sales tracked via their platform per day. They also provide expert advice and tools to power commerce strategies across a variety of channels, including social networks, email marketing, and web advertising. Skimlinks’ network currently features over 60,000 publishers and more than 48,500 merchants worldwide.

Why connect Skimlinks to Strackr

Connecting Skimlinks to Strackr takes just a few minutes, and lets you to collect your transactions from over 131000 advertisers into one dashboard. You can connect your cashback application to our API to access the xcust parameter that corresponds to the subid, or your couponing site to have access to deals.

Skimlinks API integration

To connect your affiliate statistics to Strackr you will need your Skimlinks API credentials.

Set up Skimlinks

1. Connect to your Skimlinks account then on the top menu click on Toolbox, then on the left menu on API Authentication credentials:

2. You will arrive on the API Authentication credentials section, copy and paste the Client ID, Client Secret (click on Show first) and your Publisher ID.

3. Save the connection and wait until Strackr finish the first update.