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CJ provides more features than many other affiliate marketing companies. One of its most unique features is a web-based email system that allows affiliates and companies to correspond with each other. This makes it easy for both parties to have a means of communication without a middleman relaying the messages. Although CJ does not classify advertisers as “Premium Advertisers” they do represent large and well known businesses in which are able to create more traffic through the advertisement, raising commissions.

CJ notifies its affiliates when a link and/or advertisement has expired so they can keep their website up-to-date. For affiliates who are administrators over several websites, CJ has created a simple way for we to manage your advertisings and track stats for each site individually.

Certain advertisers will offer promotions or incentives, and CJ helps you access those advertisers easily by post them on their Get Links page. The incentives are created by the advertisers to motivate better affiliate performance. CJ provides payment solutions through check or direct deposit. Banking frequency is monthly and the threshold is $50 for direct deposit and $100 for check.

CJ has the capability to let you know how your site is doing at any point in time by offering up-to-date reporting with real time stats. Reports available offer week over week, month over month and year over year reporting, which models it possible for users to pull up any two weeks, weeks or years and view the changes in their stats. This is a popular and useful form of reporting for affiliates and peculiarly the large businesses who keep a careful watch on their stats.

The website offers Performance and Buys Reports. It is easy to pull up a report and find the subject you are looking for because each option provides a drop-down menu. Through performance reporting, users have the option to view their monthly performance trend by commissions, sale amounts, sales, leads, clicks, conversion rate (CR) and earnings per 100 clicks (EPC). They can also run a performance report based on a specific website covering an exact period or date range. CJ will run reports based on your top ten advertisers by week or by month so that you can see who brings in the most commission earnings. We also found that you can protect reports for archive purposes and offline study.

Transaction report types include: commission summary, commission detail, exchange summary and transaction detail. These reports can be sorted by advertiser or event date and through type of advertisement, sale, advanced sale, lead, advanced lead, click, per thousand impressions, bonus and performance incentives). These reports can furthermore mask an exact period or date range and provide balance details such as possible commissions and current balance.

With the large level of reporting features CJ provides, the process of running a report is still very simple and easy.

It is free and easy to sign up as a publisher with Commission Junction. The registration is fast and immediately after registering, users will acquire an e-mail that allows them to sign into their account and begin utilizing the services the company offers. To register, all you need to enter is your contact understanding, the web destination for the website you will use to present ads and the way you would like to be paid. After submitting your information and agree to the legal portion, an email will be sent to your account. After clicking on the link to establish your email and identity, everything CJ offers is now at any fingertips.

Commission Junction’s homepage (cj.com) provides information for each user fund and the stats of their websites. Quick Stats located on the homepage includes: web site, period, commission earned, sales, leads, clicks and impressions, click-through rate (CTR), earnings per 1000 Impressions (EPM) and earnings per click (EPC). It also shows Program Performance and earnings over seven days, three months and altogether.

The website is designed with a user-friendly interface. Any page you are on will easily navigate you to another page or area of the website. The Account tab will take end-users to the Administrative settings where they are able to change account, payment and tax data as well as user settings.

Hand in hand with the ease of the blog are the search options CJ provides. Affiliates are able to sift through their advertisements and utilize a variety of searches to meet their needs. Advertisements can be pulled up according to blessing status: offered, pending, accepted or declined by advertiser. You can also search through your campaigns and links by earnings per click, type, size, relationship, and status.

CJ has leared what affiliates are looking for and made it possible for them to easily perform searches to find the answers and information they are looking for. We found the blog very user friendly when using the search engine on-site, and were able to collect our data within a minute.

CJ has helpful and friendly customer support staff. Each time we called CJ with the toll-free number listed on their site, we were able to quickly connect to a representative who was able to answer our questions. The longest amount of time we were on hold while trying to reach a representative was 3.5 minutes.

The website also offers Frequently Asked requests that include topics such as: What is a publisher? What is an advertiser? What is an affiliate marketing program? How does CJ know which publisher to pay for a transaction? Are advertisers’ ads available in multiple languages? These questions plus many more beneficial questions and answers are available on their blog.

Once you are a member and have logged into your account you will be brought to the home page, the CJ Account Manager page. From this page you can click on the “Help” link and ask your own question and get a specific answer just simply for you and your account from the CJ client services team.

There are several ways for a publisher to get in contact with CJ and with their friendly customer service and quick timing; getting help and/or support for your account will quickly relieve any stress or worry you could have.

Commission Junction Summary:    10/10

We found Commission Junction to be the best affiliate marketing company we reviewed. They provide an easy interface and association when it comes to your account and keeping track of your ads. With the website features, reporting, search possibilities and customer support combined through their selection of advertisers, this company has what any affiliate marketer is wanting, all in one place.