Commission Junction question

SnowSultan

Is there a place where we can look at what sort of banners and/or links we would be asked to post on our websites if we sign up for Commission Junction through DAZ? I'd like to know first if visitors would be subjected to non-art-related ads, their size, and how to end the agreement before filling out the form.

CypherFOX

Greetings,

So...you typically pick the ad you're putting on your site.  Until recently I used deep links to individual products; they made a change just a week or so ago which broke those, so I have to go back and figure out if there's a new way to do it, or if it's just not possible anymore.

Anyway, there were a bunch of ad copies and sizes you can pick from.  Commission Junction is really straightforward; you select the companies, connect with them, you'll get a list of ads that you can run, and if you decide you're done, you just stop running ads from them.  You can also sever your relationship with the companies with a click.  I used CJ for eBay a long time ago, but right now I only use it for DAZ.

If you sign up for CJ, you'll have a bunch of stuff to fill out, but your main 'agreement' is with CJ, not DAZ directly.  I've never interacted with any DAZ folks w/r/t their affiliate program.  (When I signed up the first time, there was verbiage in the contract about a DAZ forum for affiliates, but that never materialized.)

Again, the ads you run are your choice.  It's not an ad aggregator or network, although I imagine they have some capability to do that, it's NOT how I use it at all.  In general affiliate ads work MUCH better if you have a focused userbase, which is why I'd use them in preference to an ad network.

--  Morgan

 

SnowSultan

Thank you very much for that information. I use a WebBuilder site so I'm not even sure I can place HTML where I want it, but that's all good to know.

nDelphi

CypherFOX, They added back the old ads. So those links should be working again. I had started to change the old ad IDs to one of the new ones and will be using just one, just in case it happens again all I have to do is search and replace that one ad ID with any new ones and I will be back in business in no time. I just think it was something they didn't expect to break the links.

CypherFOX

Greetings,

@nDelphi - So they did!  Yay!  I do like it when procrastination pays off by the underlying problem going away. :)

Anyway, these days affiliate revenue just defrays my dedicated hosting fees (which are higher than most because I host 5 sites, of which 3dwishlist is the second most popular).  Personally I enjoy building web sites and tools, so having something that covers my costs means I can spin up new apps more easily.  In the early days, it paid for my 3D purchases, which was awesome. :)  But I always knew traffic would die down, and it mostly has.

That said, their new model gives a nice bonus for bringing in new members who buy something in their first 20 days, so sites like mine (targeted at existing users) are slightly less valuable than a site which brings new folks into the fold!

--  Morgan

 

nDelphi

CypherFOX said:

Anyway, these days affiliate revenue just defrays my dedicated hosting fees (which are higher than most because I host 5 sites, of which 3dwishlist is the second most popular).  Personally I enjoy building web sites and tools, so having something that covers my costs means I can spin up new apps more easily.  In the early days, it paid for my 3D purchases, which was awesome. :)  But I always knew traffic would die down, and it mostly has.

--  Morgan

I used to get a lot of traffic from Google, but not anymore. I have a hard time finding stuff on Google lately myself. They downgraded their service to that of Bing. I am working on a new site, but I have to rebuild my computer and repair Windows 10 to continue on that.