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Commission Junction Affiliate Review
ompany Overview: its clients and partners.
Commission Junction's expertise
Is the Internet a good lies in forging strategic
venue for getting online leads relationships between publishers
and sales? Oftentimes, online and advertisers; thereby creating
merchants are disappointed or an open marketplace low risk and
disheartened and end up reverting high reward for its clients.
to traditional media for their
advertising needs. Creating a Commission Junction is one of the
website is not enough. Submitting largest affiliate programs on the
the URL (with appropriate Meta Internet today with over three
tags and keywords to make the hundred advertisers in the UK,
site searchable) is not enough. France, and Germany alone and
Having a merchant account on your over 1,700 merchants and growing
site is not enough. The best way daily. Their partners and clients
to get the most traffic to go to include leading big name Internet
your site is through the forging and traditional companies such as
of relationships with other Air France, Ebay, Microsoft,
companies. Short of pounding the Palm, Razorfish, Thomas Cook, and
pavement or writing emails to Yahoo. Commission Junction ranks
anonymous companies who may not as one of the largest ad networks
give you the time of day, the in the world.
best solution offered by the
internet today are — affiliate Program Details and Benefits:
programs.
How does it work? Once upon a
Commission Junction is a one of time we had a simple term for it.
three ValueClick companies. We called it "banner swap".
Together they provide complete Another was direct ad placement.
Internet marketing solutions to Publishers would include ads or
links to advertisers in the to improve their services by
content of their website increasing the benefits of their
(oftentimes in the form of clients (or affiliates) and
banners). This helps advertisers encourage them to help in
in building their brand, drive up expanding the Commission Junction
their sales, and decrease the network.
acquisition cost of customers.
Commission Junction employs
Income and commissions are traditional affiliate commission
generated by what we call "click models such as "pay per click",
through"s. This means that the "pay per lead" and "pay per
publisher makes money every time sale".
the ad is seen or clicked by a
person. The commission rate is Commission Junction's affiliate
often set in batches, for program offers a variety of
example, every 1,000 clicks, etc. benefits to its affiliates. The
first is the two tier commission
There are several reasons why plan.
Commission Junction is considered
one of the best affiliate 1) An affiliate can earn a
programs on the Internet today. referral commission ($2 up-front)
by encouraging other webmasters
1) Commission Junction has a very or companies into joining the
competitive pricing scheme for Commission Junction network
their merchants (assuming they are not yet
members of the Commission
2) They pay out commissions to Junction network) once they sign
their members quickly and on time up. For example, if ten (10)
people click through from your
3) They constantly look for ways site and all of them sign up.
That means that the affiliate Commission Junction will remit
automatically earns twenty fifty dollars ($50) to you
dollars ($20) in referrals. immediately. Also, Commission
Junction offers a centralized
2) An affiliate can earn a five online commission report for all
percent (5%) commission on all its merchant programs.
commissions generated by their
referrals. This only applies to Another benefit that makes
new accounts, and not existing Commission Junction so attractive
members of Commission Junction. to merchants and publishers is
For example, if all ten become that they also offer their
active members and each one merchants the same two tiered
generates twenty dollars ($20) in program they offer their
commissions each month, then the affiliates. This means that all
first tier affiliate will earn an merchants are also entitled to
additional ten dollars ($10) the five percent (5%) second tier
monthly income. This translates commissions.
into an annual income of around
one hundred twenty dollars ($120) Commission Junction also offers a
— all from referrals! variety of affiliate programs
that you can promote on your
Second, commissions are pooled site. Aside from the big name
together in one check paid companies, Commission Junction
directly by Commission Junction, has attracted the attention of
on a monthly basis, not by the many smaller merchants that are
merchants. There is no set highly targeted and are focused
minimum commission per merchant. on a particular niche. This helps
This means that if you earn five in targeting your site as well
dollars ($5) each from ten and will increase the
merchants in a single month, opportunities of finding a
merchant appropriate for your offer. Don't make much money from
target audience. them despite the programs looking
good.
Visitor Feedback:
"· (February 25, 2003) Hardly
I've read several comments about makes you any money even if you
Commission Junction on the try hard. They used to be a good
Internet from forums and review and reliable bunch, but since
sites and there seems to be mixed they've left the pay per click
feedback, depending on whether system, they've gone downhill in
you are a merchant or an many respects. When I requested
affiliate. payment, next thing I knew was
that they terminated my account,
Merchants have given glowing accusing me of cheating! This was
reports all around. According to supposedly detected by their
the merchants, Commission infallible anti-cheating
Junction offers them a software... I subsequently
well-designed and emailed them several time asking
well-implemented solution at a for an explanation, and they
reasonable price. From the never replied once! What can you
affiliates, though, there have do! I'd say skip them if you're
been a few glowing reports and looking for a company with
quite a few not so desirable integrity. There are many around,
ones. Here are some comments like Tradedoubler, Fastclick and
posted: Focusin.
"· (August 23, 2001)I could spend "· (February 4, 2004 - from a
all day on their site trying to 2-year Commission Junction
figure out which programs to member) Commission Junction offer
choose from the thousands on a fantastic business opportunity
from people working from home Junction interface is hard to
(who have a website) wanting to navigate, keeps crashing. Stay
earn an extra income brilliant well clear.
companies on offer easy to join
and add links to - Their payment As you can see the comments are
structure is second to none - I mixed. In the early stages of
now receive a guaranteed monthly Commission Junction's history
check which is always more every there were reports of undelivered
month! commissions and inaccurate
tracking. On the up side, the
"· (April 16, 2004) Commission last negative comment I've read
Junction seemed to be good, but I was the one listed above (October
have just recently requested 18, 2005). I assume this means
payment and found my account has that Commission Junction has
been put on payment review for 30 ironed out their bugs and has
days and then if they think I definitely moved forward and been
have increased clicks they will able to supply its merchant
terminate my account. This is partners and affiliates with the
very annoying and I don't think quality service they promised.
I'm the only one who has had this With nine months of glowing
problem. My advice would be to reviews, I think it is safe to
look elsewhere or deal directly recommend Commission Junction to
with the companies of which you merchants and publishers all over
want to become an affiliate. the net.
"· (October 18, 2005) Commission
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