Just over a week ago I signed myself up for 2 more programs that have the potential to make me good money. This is the first article of 2 I will be writing on these programs.
Commission Junction
Commission Junction was the first of the 2 programs I signed up to, this an Affiliate Marketing program, where you get paid per sale or lead rather than per click.
How it works
Once you've signed up and your blog or website has been accepted, you can search for advertisers you want to display on your site. You can search for advertisers in a number of ways, by category, by keyword search and by advertiser name. Each advertiser offers a different value for a sale/lead, some offer a percentage of the sale value and some a fixed value per sale/lead. Once you've found an advertiser whose product you want to advertise, you have to apply to the program, some will accept you staight away while others will manually verify your sites suitability and either accept or deny you. When you've been accepted by a program you can then choose the the ads you wish to display, each advertiser has a wide selection of creative that you can choose, from text only links to button banners to full banners. When you've chosen the ads you can then get the code to add to your template, you are also able to create smartzones that you can add differnet ads to so that you can have a rotation of ads.
Advantages
- Professional site
- Plenty of reports for tracking how well each of your advertisers ads are doing
- Potential for making large earning if you get good sales
- A large selection of advertisers and products to advertise
Disadvantages
- A sale must be made before make any money, 100 people can click on an ad but unless someone actually makes a purchase you won't get any money
- You need a lot of traffic to make money from this
Conclusion
I'm really excited about this program, I really do think it has good potential, no sales have been made as yet so I haven't made any money so far. I think though that if I can increase my traffic enough I will start to see a return, we shall see.
Look out for part 2 tomorrow.
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Tags: affiliate marketing, commision junction, advertising, adverts
8 comments:
Thanks for visiting my blog. Hey, we blog about the same thing.. almost.. kinda.. not so much I guess? :)
BTW, I posted a reply to your comment on This post
No problem you have an interesting blog, and ours are kind of similar, sort of.
I think I will put a link to your blog on my favourites list.
Martin
Martin,
I just came across your site via your comment on the AvivaDirectory article. I like what i've read so far. Your site is a good blend of actually good content with some behind the scenes view. Keep it up, it looks like you are on the right track to success.
Rich
BizNicheMedia.com
I have linked to you as well :)
Thanks goddess.
Hi Rich, I appreciate your comments.
Thanks
Martin
Great blog btw ! You will find that you make much more money with Adsense than Commision Junction. I did not like the manual additon of ads to the website. Let me know how it works out for you. Adsense has done fabulous for me.
Keep up the great unique blog !
Thanks Medini, you are probably right, I'm just experimenting at he moment, we will see what happens. Thanks for your encouragment.
Martin
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