You know its sad when you receive emails like this:

[draggar]

You are receiving this email because your Commission Junction publisher account has not generated any valid commissions during the last five months.

Yeah, very sad. So I have to either buy something myself (which I don't want to do) or wait until my account is canceled and then re-enable it.

I get some clicks, just no sales.

 

[Gerry]

I dumped CJ a couple of years ago. There was no end to the spam email, updates, downdates, mandates...

 

[stevo]

I dumped CJ a couple of years ago. There was no end to the spam email, updates, downdates, mandates...

Is there a good alternative?

 

[Gerry]

Amazon was a much better alternative for the same space (ads). Amazon sells everything so it is definitely a better alternative rather than have to keep up with the constant bombardment of emails in your inbox.

 

[draggar]

I tried Amazon and it is just as hard to get any sales from it. I wonder if there is an ad version of BANS? Finding random items on eBay that fit your sites description (or pre-set description)?

 

[petrosc]

Is there a good alternative?

Stevo, alternatives are other CPA networks

HydraNetwork
PepperJam
NeverBlue
Affiliate.com

and there are many more...these are few of the larger 1st tier ones though

 

[David G]

Yeah, very sad. So I have to either buy something myself (which I don't want to do) or wait until my account is canceled and then re-enable it.

I get some clicks, just no sales.

Sounds familiar! When I logged in to CJ I see an announcement (and get emails) they have closed my acct because of so called inactivity. I completed a form and they reopened it but said I need to apply for the programs all over again since they were cancelled when acct closed.

Here is my 30 day report across totsl of several sites I have running CJ ads (the sites are very well targeted by the way including the health site).

Report Total $0.00 $0.00 60 17,390

That's right, 17,390 impressions with a mere 60 clicks and not one order - with zero income! After wasting untold hours researching and applying for various ad programs and setting them up on the sites it hardly seems worthwhile starting over again with zero revenue.

It's going to be a big job removing CJ ads from my websites, which I have already started to work on. I can now say CJ sucks big time.

 

[H2FC]

I read where CJ deducts $10 month fee for inactivity and when they're unable to do that anymore they just close your account.

Do they still do that?

 

[Seraphim]

Yep, CJ closed my account due to inactivity. Before that however, they seemed to have dumped like 75% of the affiliates I was using, not sure what the story was behind that. Didn't seem like they had many partners after that.

 

[JuniperPark]

As I've said before, I've caught Commission Junction red-handed defauding me by reporting ZERO sales, even when I personally made a sale from my own ad.

I confronted them about it at Pubcon.com (as did another ripped-off publisher) and they refused to respond to me.

It sounds like they are still in the fraud business.

 

[Focus]

All f*cking greedy bass turds..thats why I send my traffic to parking pages, F*CK conversions..not my problem.

 

[LarryWentz]

I've always liked Commission Junction!

If you are gonna make money in affiliate marketing you really should be doing business with all the major affiliate networks (& some 2nd tier ones) plus some independent affiliate programs if they match what you are doing on your website.

 

[Rockefeller]

I do great on Credit score sales, $15/each

 

[DN BROKER]

cj is been good to me, i average $50-$100 a month.

 

[hugegrowth]

CJ has a lot of varied advertisers, and now more in french and spanish which helps me because I have that type of traffic. I just like using different ad programs on my pages in case one of them folds or has problems. Most of what I make there comes from dating and french astrology readings, and a little from Expedia. The nice thing about these programs is one click can result in a sale that totally beats ppc. So you need traffic that converts.

Getting paid per click is guaranteed (though decreasing lately), but if you are sending traffic to someone else and making them sales, you're better off having some sort of affiliate deal with a place like CJ.

You do get a lot of emails from CJ advertisers though, and they get deactivated and reactivated all the time. I think Buy.com sends me an email every day!

 

[Jilo]

cj is been good to me, i average $50-$100 a month.

I'm guessing that's on a few different sites?

 

[sashas]

I tried Amazon and it is just as hard to get any sales from it. I wonder if there is an ad version of BANS? Finding random items on eBay that fit your sites description (or pre-set description)?

I was skeptical about Amazon. I had it on a website that was getting just 30-50 uniques a month. Two weeks after I put up the Amazon banner, I checked my account to see $8 in revenue (that is a VERY high conversion rate).

The golden rule with Amazon is to push high price items.

 

[draggar]

I've been adding Amazon links to some of my sites (yes, expensive items are nice but with the economy you also need to push less expensive options - but very few "middle of the road" items.

I've also signed up with LinkShare - we'll see how that one goes, too. I'm sticking with CJ because Blockbuster's affiliate program is though them (sadly). LinkShare has some great advertisers in my niche, though and they're slowly (but surely) being approved.