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Domain white labels have arrived.
We have added domain white labels as a new option for all of our account types. What does this mean to you? Its simple really. Domain white labels are a way for you to help brand your coupons by making it look like the coupons are hosted on your domain.
What happens without white labels enabled? You receive a Spiral Scratch subdomain such as company.myspiral-scratch.com, and when links are generated or sent to your customers, that is what they see company.myspiral-scratch.com. This isn’t a bad thing, but it does take away from all that branding you have been working so hard to accomplish.
What happens with white labels enabled? You send us a subdomain from your own domain, lets say coupons.company.com, and we use that for all of your links and data that your customers see. So now they aren’t seeing that Spiral Scratch is generating these coupons for you, and your coupon branding is saved!
Feel free to check out this new feature, we hope you enjoy it.
Coupontank v3 - Released!
You might notice the slick transition to the new Spiral Scratch interface. Post your thoughts and questions here.
Improve SEO with Coupon Backlinks
This week we added the ability to add links to your coupons. When you are creating a coupon, you will see a new link icon next to the preheadline, headline, subheadline, disclaimer and promo code. When you click on this link icon it will open a text field where you can enter the URL you wish it to go to. If you are running a 30% off sale on a specific item in your online shopping cart, you can link directly to that item. This makes life a lot easier on your customers.
When you put a link on your Spiral Scratch coupon, it is like having Spiral Scratch tell google, yahoo and bing that you and Spiral Scratch are buddies. And as buddies, they decide to increase your SEO and increase your website ranking.
So now your customers can get to you and your products faster, while your SEO improves.
Facebook – Like it first!
We released a new feature for our facebook app this week. This feature will force facebook users to “Like” your coupons before they can access them. This helps it go viral, since the like will show up on their facebook wall, for all their friends to see.
To turn on the new feature on for your facebook page you will need to:
- Login to your Spiral Scratch account
- Go to the Facebook Tab from your dashboard
- Turn on the option for ‘Make users click “Like” before displaying your coupon.’
- And click on “Save”
You can see an example of how this works on our coupon tab for facebook.
Easier Coupon Distribution
We updated everyones dashboard today to make your life easier. You used to have to go to every section to see where your coupons were being distributed to, or to start distributing them. This can be quite a task if you want your coupon to show up on facebook, your website tab and wordpress.
To simplify this, we now show quick, easy to use icons under each coupon. If the icon is grayed out, its not enabled for that service. If you want to enable it, simply click on it.