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Join the Commission Junction Network as an Advertiser today! Reasons to Join CJ!

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is any form of online advertising or marketing where the advertiser pays for results rather than paying to reach a specific audience.
Publishers (affiliates) promote advertiser (merchant) products or services on their Web site in exchange for a commission on leads or sales that result from the Web site visitor acting on these offers.
Commission Junction, an application service provider (ASP), is a third party network of advertisers and publishers that tracks, reports and measures all of these transactions, collects and distributes payments from each advertiser, and pays the publisher their monthly earnings in one aggregated payment.

Why use CJ?

Keeping track of sales, affiliates, finding new affiliates is time consuming. CJ has expertise and knowledge, as well as a tried and trusted tracking system using CJ's cookie system.

How does CJ track sales and transactions?

CJ use cookies. Over 99% of all users have cookies enabled, cookie-based technology is widely recognised as the best way of tracking sales. The cookies uses are customer ID, impression and click cookie. For more information on Cookies see Cookie FAQ

Do I have to work in real time?

Commission Junction does have the ability for the advertiser to create a Batch file and upload sale information to CJ. Once this sale data is received, Commission Junction will credit your publishers based on the information submitted. Please consult a Technical Integration Specialist for further details.

Compatible shopping carts include:

AccessPoint.com, Americart, Authorize.net, Cart32, CommercePay, Cybercash, Ibill, Inex, Intershop3&4, IPOSS, Mal'sE-commerceSolutions, MerchantecSoftCart, MivaCorporation, PDGShoppingCart, Shopcart.com, OpenMarketShopSitev.4.1.1Pro, ShopInBox, USWebsites.com, VirtualCart.com.

What does CJ do about fraud?

• publishers are screened for content

• Fraud Team reviews most commission checks before they are sent to publishers

• Commission Junction monitors all publishers and advertisers for fraudulent activity

• CJ encourage you to contact the CJ Fraud Team when you suspect fraudulent activity. The Alert Fraud button is on the Publisher Detail page, or you can send a message to fraud@cj.com. A concise reason for the suspicion of fraud will save time for the CJ Fraud Team.

• CJ no longer support "Pay per click" programs. This type of program was open to abuse.

So, CJ will help you track sales, prevent fraud, fit in with your cart system, and give you access to thousands of Affiliates who will help you boost your sales. Using CJ means that your affiliates get paid with much less fuss and effort than ever before, freeing you to spend more time working on other aspects of your business.

Join the Commission Junction Network as an Advertiser today!

Boost search engine ranking

Having many affiliates will boost your search engine rankings. Each time an affiliate links to your site using a text link (using relevant keywords) the search engines will take these into account. The more relevant, high quality links in to your site the better your search engine rankings will be. CJ will make it easy for you to add and review affiliates to your scheme, all the time building up for sales force.

Join CJ by clicking on the link above. Join as an affiliate first for free. You can upgrade your account to merchant after you have joined.