CJ.com: Commission Junction

years ago CJ would be on my top list, these days not even a thought! If i was running a comparison shopping site i would still use them, but no good for my SEO or email lists. But like anything - worth a look.

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Its been 4 years with this network, and I found it very hard to work with them as an affiliate. The support is the worst. If they don’t like your question they will never reply. And for those they reply, most of those are irrelevant to the question. I had to give 1 star to the support.
The only reason CJ is alive today is due to the amount of top advertisers it have. But that thing is changing, I can clearly see that.

I do praise one feature of CJ, that is they can send payment by Courier service FedEx. I’m international affiliate and direct deposit is not available for my country. So I have to stick to snail mail check. FedEx is a great convenience for me. The only networks I know of that send checks by courier are CJ and ShareASale.

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This is the be-all and end-all of all affiliate networks. if it’s anywhere it’ll be in CJ. Read the other review for the good stuff, so here’s the bad:

Problems with CJ
- No-one to contact. Forget about phone numbers, or even tryign to email in.
- Stats are usually DAYS late so no trying to figure out how your campaign is working
- $100 minimum payout automatically (although if you put your checking account AND change TWO places you’ll get paid on $50 at a time)
- “locked” and “processed”! All your transactions go through steps before they’re “officially” given to you. For me a sale is a sale. Unless there’s a refund If I got the sale on the 29th, the check on the first should include that sale.
- “Approval”! Some offers have to get “approved” but even though CJ lets you show which sites you have, the “vendor” may not see that you have NOT ONLY that great political site, BUT ALSO a site that comes up #1 on google for cell phone terms and THAT’S why you’re applying for AT&T. if they let me CHOOSE which site I was them to “see” then maybe they wouldn’t “disapprove” me but approve spammy competitors.
- Kick you off. - If you don’t reach your $50 minium in 3 months (I know won’t happen to you) they’ll just kick you off and keep your money. Google Adsense will let you take up to two years to make their $100 minimum. I mean really. Do you think they return the money to the vendor? Or have any “cost” to me ONLY making $3/month? (I know make that an hour, but I did have to start somewhere!)

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Useless network ever. No support to affiliates. No flexibility. They wont change anything for us. Auto rejections. Infact everything sucks.

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The biggest and the most popular network. They promote good offers. Some of the offers have good conversion ratio, some dont have. Even though so many affiliate networks emerged after CJ, I strongly recommend Cj because they have the biggest online customers. Commission Junction offers bigger payouts for sales.

The only thing I hate about Commission Junction is most of the offers wont get approved. We have to contact them for each and every offer they rejected.

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I like using comission junction because they have a very wide varity of affiliate offers to promote. I can always find what i am looking for in CJ. alot of companies run their affiliate programs through CJ and whats good is that you can also find offers for many different niches that you may not find on other affiliate networks.

Jani G

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