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Sohan

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I hear about a lot of affiliates pushing with CJ, and it always makes me wonder how. From what I see, it's mainly per sale things like TVs and Supplements from almost every company under the moon.

Any good guides / posts on pushing with CJ because I personally can't find something that I'm able to push with typical networks. :xomunch: I've heard of people pushing extreme numbers with CJ and it has always made me interested to find more but some quick searches revealed nothing.

I've got a few things lined up for MySpace, but the bloody buttons won't work and I've had no luck at finding a solution.
 


Try some of the real estate based programs, they pay per lead.
I was doing 250-400 Leads per month with Apartments.com for like 8 months or so. They have a pretty solid program.
CJ doesn't really have the shitty email/zip subs most newcomers are used to seeing in a majority of the networks.
 
Thanks for the tip ;) I'm not really after pushing zips. I was after stuff that has better pay and way lower scrub rates. I've not mastered sales and I'm still learning landing pages.

Are stats on CJ realtime and whats the payout options for people in the UK?
 
As far as payout options, I'm not really familiar with policies regarding accounts outside of the states.

Stats are not usually real time... There is about an hour to two hour delay in which earnings are reported. Maybe a 15 minute to Half hour delay in which traffic (impressions/clicks) are reported
 
I don't know where to really start, but there are a ton of different directions you can go in. Leads exist for products like Rhapsody, Yahoo (a few different properties), Insurance, and more. Per-sale exists for everything from large retailers (Best Buy, Magazine sites), individual products (Wall Street Journal), online subscriptions (diet related, hosting), and of course a lot more.

Stats are on a ~2 hour delay, and you can't get pixels placed on offers, unless you contact the advertiser and they're willing to work something out (extremely rare), but it's worth it if you can find something not offered elsewhere. My current offers are on a wide-range of different business models, everything from leads for a free product to a small bit of volume for specialty retailers (increasing volume at holidays), to online subscriptions for a few products.
 
Sohan said:
whats the payout options for people in the UK?
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They pay me by monthly bank transfer, usually clears 3 or so days after it leaves them. I think they will send cheques too and I guess you might get more frequent payments if you are earning more.
 
CJ's strength is in the big names it carries. You can convert better with a big bright well known logo on top.

Its a pain in the ass finding the sweetspot, but if you find a link that converts, its always a killer, with very juicy commissions.
 
glowleaf said:
CJ's strength is in the big names it carries. You can convert better with a big bright well known logo on top.

Its a pain in the ass finding the sweetspot, but if you find a link that converts, its always a killer, with very juicy commissions.
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How do you go about promoting them though? Just direct link for their brand name or something? Or one of their items?
 
If you mean direct link on a pcc campaign bidding on their brand name, that is a no no.
I meant that having banners with their well known logos, and having the visitor land on their sales page with the same fat logo on top, increases conversions.
I dont understand where you find a problem, you just link to them like any other affiliate offer.
Product Reviews->keyword link
Domains with relevant keywords->keyword link
Banners relevant to your traffic-> their banner.

Also, you need to ignore the ecpm on their banner list, the scale is skewed. A single big affiliate can make a banner seem like its converting, when in reality its his targetted traffic for example.
You need to do your own split testing on the banners you use.

Forget the CPA mentality when playing with CJ, its all or nothing. Your traffic either converts, or it doesnt, there is no gray area.

And I advice against trying a ppc campaign with CJ, you will lose lots of cash, unless you have something tested to shit and converting solidly.
 
Their tracking blows as far as I'm concerned.
I had a ppc campaign that was doing alright then suddenly stopped.

I opened a ticket and here is the response I got.

Thank you for your inquiry. Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding Google and apparent discrepancies in tracking information. Here are some following things to check.

• Impressions and clicks reported in your stats come from Google’s servers, which host your ads. Before being delivered to your stats, both impressions and clicks are filtered for possibly invalid patterns of behavior.

• Your server’s Web logs are more reliable for comparisons than third party tracking will be.

• Some tracking programs may not register clicks that occur while the destination site is down.

• Some tracking programs will have limitations on the kinds and sources of clicks that they report.

• Your ads can display on a network of search and content partner sites, literally numbering in the thousands. So while the ads originate from Google, your tracking may not reflect this.

• Time discrepancies between different tracking programs can throw off comparisons of clicks. All AdWords reports are on US Pacific Time.

• Stats reported in your account typically run about three hours behind in the Campaign Summary page, and possibly more in individual campaign and Ad Group pages. So this delay must also be considered.

• Third party tracking may filter out visits from your own IP address, while AdWords does not.

• Google registers clicks differently than Commission Junction does. Google uses a redirect and if the browser ever stops, on Google, it registers as a click with Google but it never reaches us.
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Now while some of that may apply and I know for a fact that some of it isn't a factor, I'm still convinced there was something wrong this weekend. I made a purchase through one of my own links on Saturday and it never showed up.

I'm not sure I completely understand that last point but I don't like the way it sounds either.
 
abhorrent said:
I made a purchase through one of my own links on Saturday and it never showed up.
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That would be an issue with the advertiser and their implementation of the pixel - happens on any network. You should be following up with the advertiser, not CJ support, about why that order didn't track. This weekend was one of the better weekends I've had recently with my CJ programs.
 
I had some tracking issues that were on the CJ side a week or two ago so I went there first. Plus, the purchase I made was from a different merchant then what I was running on my ppc campaign. For the couple dollars in commission it's frankly not worth my time to chase it down. I'll just change my links and keep an eye on it for now.
 
Ryan said:
It's ok, but I've had a lot of sales show up and disappear days later with no explanation, and no feedback from support...their support is terrible.
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Sales don't just disappear. If you run a transaction report, any reversed or removed commissions will show in the "corrected" column. From someone who's worked on both the merchant and affiliate end in CJ for a number of years, believe me when I say that sales can't just disappear - They will always show up somewhere in the transaction reports.
 
johu said:
That would be an issue with the advertiser and their implementation of the pixel - happens on any network. You should be following up with the advertiser, not CJ support, about why that order didn't track. This weekend was one of the better weekends I've had recently with my CJ programs.
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Sales from Saturday, including mine, are starting to show up just now.
Odd if nothing was wrong with their tracking like they said.
 
I hate non real-time tracking. I'm an F5 whore lol, and CJ doesn't give thrills unless there's a big figure at the top of the page going up by loads every F5.
 
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