"Bloggers" vs. "Commission Junction"
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Commission Junction is an affiliate program mega store (similar to clickbank) that offers thousands of products from different industries for you to get commissions from. Simply you can say a popular affiliate network. Commission Junction is a third party between you the affiliate and companies who have products to sell.
I’ve used Commission Junction for a long time, never really had much success with it - Reason I’ve not found many products in it that quite fit with my topics that I mostly write on and because I have found other programs (like Amazon) to be easier to add to my blogs.
Once you’ve applied to join Commission Junction you then need to apply to join some of the many programs that run within it. Each advertiser in the system has their own program and if you wish to promote their products you apply to do so. Once your application is approved you are then able to use links provided to promote their products. I understand why they use this system but it can make getting products up onto your blog to promote a longer process (and more frustrating if you’re rejected) than other systems like Amazon and Clickbank in which you are free to promote any product or service in their system.
As you can tell I’m not a big fan of Commission Junction but I know of website owners who use it very effectively and make good money from it. And it's better to now the inside of it before anyone got consumed by it's popularities.
The Good:
• wide variety of products/services/companies to promote
• better quality products than clickbank (no cheap and nasty e-books here). In fact they represent some very big companies.
• options given for different types of links (including text, buttons, banners etc)
• reasonable statistics information given
The Bad:
• perhaps a downside of the variety of products on offer is the overwhelming nature of Commission Junction.
• slightly more complicated interface than a program like Amazon
• they deactivate account, if you don’t use it more than 4 weeks.
• application to programs within the larger Commission Junction network can be frustrating and a long process. And got mostly denied without any reason.
• Ugliest customer service ever I have seen. Do not respond to e-mail.
The catch:
They have large number of companies, with high paying ads. But if you successfully adopted Amazon or the Australian Leedhound(network) it gives more cash trust me. I personally use all of these.
Commission Junction is an affiliate program mega store (similar to clickbank) that offers thousands of products from different industries for you to get commissions from. Simply you can say a popular affiliate network. Commission Junction is a third party between you the affiliate and companies who have products to sell.
I’ve used Commission Junction for a long time, never really had much success with it - Reason I’ve not found many products in it that quite fit with my topics that I mostly write on and because I have found other programs (like Amazon) to be easier to add to my blogs.
Once you’ve applied to join Commission Junction you then need to apply to join some of the many programs that run within it. Each advertiser in the system has their own program and if you wish to promote their products you apply to do so. Once your application is approved you are then able to use links provided to promote their products. I understand why they use this system but it can make getting products up onto your blog to promote a longer process (and more frustrating if you’re rejected) than other systems like Amazon and Clickbank in which you are free to promote any product or service in their system.
As you can tell I’m not a big fan of Commission Junction but I know of website owners who use it very effectively and make good money from it. And it's better to now the inside of it before anyone got consumed by it's popularities.
The Good:
• wide variety of products/services/companies to promote
• better quality products than clickbank (no cheap and nasty e-books here). In fact they represent some very big companies.
• reasonable statistics information given
The Bad:
• perhaps a downside of the variety of products on offer is the overwhelming nature of Commission Junction.
• slightly more complicated interface than a program like Amazon
• they deactivate account, if you don’t use it more than 4 weeks.
• application to programs within the larger Commission Junction network can be frustrating and a long process. And got mostly denied without any reason.
• Ugliest customer service ever I have seen. Do not respond to e-mail.
The catch:
They have large number of companies, with high paying ads. But if you successfully adopted Amazon or the Australian Leedhound(network) it gives more cash trust me. I personally use all of these.
