Affiliate Network

http://www.cj.com

CJ Contact Info

• US Headquarters
  Commission Junction - 530 East Montecito Street - Santa Barbara
  CA 93103 United States
  Phone: 800-761-1072
  International: 805-730-8000
  Fax: 805-730-8001
  
  
• UK Office
  Commission Junction - Cambridge House180 Upper Richmond Road - London
  SW15 2SH United Kingdom
  Phone: 44-20-8785-5870
  
  
• Other
  Non-US/UK residents, please visit Commission Junction in order to get assistance.
  

Payout Details

• CJ's payout details are quite straightforward. CJ makes things easy for both merchants and affiliates.
  
  
• Minimum Affiliate Network Payout
  $25.00. If your commission does not exceed $25.00 per quarter, you will receive payment by July 31 and January 31 of each given year regardless of the amount that is due.
  
  
• Merchant Payment
  Merchants don't have to send multiple checks every month because CJ themselves handle all the payments of merchants to their affiliates. CJ offers "one check per month" or EPC (average earning per 100 clicks) policy for commission payments of affiliates.
  
  There is no need for affiliates to achieve a minimum sales level from each merchant in order to get their monthly payment.
  
  
• Other Payout Details
  Affiliate commissions can be received in two ways: either by a check in the mail or through direct deposit to a designated bank account. There is no charge for this service. Presently, direct deposit is only available to U.S., Canadian, U.K. and German affiliates.
  
  In case of questions, CJ support is available to answer them.
  

Useful Affiliate Network Tools for Affiliates

• CJ's merchants have the option to either automatically accept affiliates or can approve them manually. More and more merchants prefer the latter option to have better control over their affiliate program
  
  
• CJ enables their affiliates to access to the largest directory of affiliate programs which has thousands of products and services; you can find the products of your choice to promote by using CJ's quite powerful internal search engine
  
  

Principal type of Affiliate Programs

• While CJ used to have PPC programs a couple of years ago, this type of affiliate program has been abandonned. Their merchants mostly work on pay per sale basis. Pay per lead programs are present but not as numerous as pay per sale affiliate programs. Some merchants offer combined sales/lead payment.

Other Key Affiliate Network Info

• CJ's commitment to customer service and their unique features make them stand out from their competitors. Commission Junction enables the affiliates and merchants to track their online sales anytime from the CJ site.
• CJ offers one-on-one account managers so that Merchants can make the most of their program.
• CJ's whole system is web based, so merchants do not have to buy and install any kind of software in order to run a good affiliate program
• Merchants' links are available in various languages and the "Advanced Search" tool in the CJ Account Manager makes it easier to find links of specific interest by language.
• A unique feature offered by Commission Junction is that you can alter, add or modify the code in its advertiser section. In this way, you can check what links are working or not working on different sites.
• Commission Junction also has the SmartZones feature which allows you to select up to 25 text or image ads and banners that randomly rotates on your site.
• Commission Junction has a great resource center called "CJU" which offers the latest news, advertising strategies, tool demos and best practices.
  

Important Merchants in the Affiliate Network

• Commission Junction has of hundreds of merchants and tens of thousands of affiliates within its network.
• CJ's client list includes several leading internet marketers like eBay, Backcountry.com, Capital One, NextCard, The New York Times Home Delivery, Quicken Loans, Crucial Technology, Expedia, Citibank, Zappos.com, and many more.
  

Affiliate Statistics

• CJ's stats system is quite advanced. They provide statistics of all the merchants, available products, ad type...
• Commission Junction keeps things actual fresh by updating your statistics every hour. They allows you to break your statistics in an unlimited number of ways such as best performing sites, 50 best performing links etc.
• They also enable you to track the ads which generated most click-throughs and impressions in any specified time by sorting each report in ascending or descending order in 13 different ways. The CJ stats system also reports if you have dead links on your site.

Actualaffiliate Rating of CJ

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