Commission Junction account warning for inflating traffic

[ecolatur]

Hello everybody,

I am a adsense publisher with many websites and am earning for past six months now on adsense and some other aff programs too.

I joined CJ this month. And after 20 days I get this message:

> In accordance with the Commission Junction Publisher Service Agreement,(
> http://www.cj.com/pub_agreement.asp ), you are being warned for inflating
> traffic to one or more of your affiliated advertisers. You may not
> generate clicks or transactions for the advertisers you are affiliated
> with unless you have documented authorization from the advertiser. As a
> result, your account is under payout review. If you are found to remain
> non compliant during the next payout review cycle (approx 30 days), your
> account will be deactivated.


Why am I posting it here? B'cos this is the biggest joke I can share atleast for this month..

Really, anybody else has this kind of stuff, :D

I am not worried for a possibility to be kicked out, bcos i know I will not be, bcos I have done nothing wrong and I get impressions and clicks from all parts of the globe...

Still, I just want all of you to know... how funny the sytems are..

Abhilash.

[Ausdaddy]

I had never seen this problem before, but from reading the actual text I wonder if you are displaying ads for a program you have not formally been accepted into yet.
My guess is an automated message and you shouldn't worry too much if you're not trying to work the system in some way, but it may be worth checking that you have been accepted for all the programs you are showing ads for.

[ecolatur]

I had never seen this problem before, but from reading the actual text I wonder if you are displaying ads for a program you have not formally been accepted into yet.

Usually I take links from the Relationships area in the CJ, so no way I am displaying ads of a program which I have not been accepted.

However, I rechecked and found that everything was ok with my advertisers.

Abhilash.

[Ausdaddy]

Well, then I have no idea! I can only suggest you send them an email quoting the message and asking what it actually means!

Good luck.

[ecolatur]

Hello everbody,

I would like to clarify here what went wrong!

Nothing was wrong with CJ, but something was wrong with me..

What happened is....

You people might remember Amit - ( http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=28567 )

Actually this is what happened, Amit asked me to open his brothers CJ account and see the balance, which i did out of curiosity and fun.. ( He chats with me in a while in Yahoo msg )

all of you who have read that thread know about him...

Today he told me over yahoo msg, that his account ,brothers, and his mothers account all of them were terminated by CJ for inflated traffic.

And then, i knew why i recd that warning.

There is a saying in India "Never put rotten mangoes in between good ones or ......"

I would like to ask the moderator to delete this thread as it is not relevent any further...

Abhilash.