Just Made a Cool $110 from CJ

[jackburton2006]

Shockers. I created a simple "affiliate page" a few weeks ago on web hosting and tossed it up on one of my established sites -- nothing major, just another page on a domain name already full of pages.

Lo and behold, I log into my CJ account yesterday and bam -- a cool $110 affiliate earning from that page! Very, very interesting. I had never earn anything form CJ before (well, I did get someone to sign up to screensaver.com, which got me .60-cents), but I was about to launch an expensive Adwords campaign to target some high paying CJ merchants.

This has convinced me to make more affiliate pages and toss them up on my site. Since this site is already high in the SERPs, the affiliate pages are getting surprisingly good SERP placements. I had never bothered to check, I guess I was doing this as an experiment.

Not bad for a site I created in 5 minutes or so and tossed up there and didn't give a second thought, huh? I'm definitely going to create more affiliate pages targeting more merchants from CJ...

[Micromag]

-- a cool $110 affiliate earning from that page! Very, very interesting. but I was about to launch an expensive Adwords campaign to target some high paying CJ merchants.


This is good & congratulations! - but keep in mind before spending bucks on AdWords that the money will really be yours after its status is "locked" - wait until day 10 to see what happens.

"new" or "extended" means that the commissions are subject to be reversed.

What kind of adverser is this that paid you this $110,00?

[jackburton2006]

This is good & congratulations! - but keep in mind before spending bucks on AdWords that the money will really be yours after its status is "locked" - wait until day 10 to see what happens.

"new" or "extended" means that the commissions are subject to be reversed.

What kind of adverser is this that paid you this $110,00?

A web host. iPower, actually.

[Micromag]

A web host. iPower, actually.


1 Domain sale + 1 Web Hosting = $110,00

I promote iPower too: they will do their reversals Monday or Tuesday.

Unfortunately there is a big chance of reversals: A lot of people uses invalid credit card to put their sites for a small period only and iPower has also the 30-day-money-back policy too.

So, just be prepared - is part of the game.

[vlad7]

I've seen hosting companies on CJ with an EPC above $200!!

[Micromag]

I've seen hosting companies on CJ with an EPC above $200!!

All Hosting companies has this Reversal problem.

Companies like IXwebhosting, PowWeb and Hostgator extend 100% of his commissions. So you will get a wrong corrupted EPC statistic: 60 days you get reversed 60% of the commissions.

[www.AmCy.org]

I am very happy with my relationship with cj.com--no doubt--but I've never made even one penny from the various web hosting programs I've tried over the years. IMHO, CPA and web hosting don't mix. Much better off with CPC when it comes to web hosting.

As always, IMO.

AmCy

[jackburton2006]

Hmm, well, thanks for the reality check, guys. LOL. I guess I was just curious that I made that, because I didn't even promote the page. Oh well. It was a good learning experience even if it gets reversed. :D

[Gmason]

ipower hosting.. i got to sign up for cj

[Mystique]

This is good & congratulations! - but keep in mind before spending bucks on AdWords that the money will really be yours after its status is "locked" - wait until day 10 to see what happens.


this is a must. CJ loves to reverse commisions very often.

However I do not believe that iPower become a "deactivated" advertiser in the next few days preventing the payment.

Congrats ;)

[BlueDevilMedia]

I've had some success with eBay's Affiliate Program through CJ. The largest single commission I've had with them was $175. (Someone bought a $4000 ring around Christmas.) I average $400-$500 a month through CJ.

[jackburton2006]

Really, Ebay has that kind of program? I thought they only did leads -- they pay you for everyone who signs up and actually places a bid and wins a bid. So they pay per-bid commission too?

[Micromag]

However I do not believe that iPower become a "deactivated" advertiser in the next few days preventing the payment.


They reverse commissions for returned sales and invalid credit cards.

Web Hosting normally reverse 50%~60% of the commissions due of the 30-day money back policy and high number of fraudulent activations.

ipower has not yet reversed 1 cent from the $2000,00 that I did for this period but they will do it certainly until Wednesday as they do every month.

[funlounge]

Congratulations !

I've only made 1.60 $ with CJ (1 monster resume, and 1 screensaver !!)

[sebastya]

Didn't most of you use CJ for hosting? I've made $90 through my own affiliate link :)

[BlueDevilMedia]

Really, Ebay has that kind of program? I thought they only did leads -- they pay you for everyone who signs up and actually places a bid and wins a bid. So they pay per-bid commission too?

It's a revenue share...paid on winning bids and buy it now fees.

[cprntr]

I have some hostgator commissions extended through cj.com.
What's up with this, the TOS say that a program can extend for up to 30 days for each sale.
Is this so they can find reasons to disqualify the sale?
or so they can float their money an extra month?

[Micromag]

Is this so they can find reasons to disqualify the sale?
or so they can float their money and extra month?

disqualify: No sale = No commission

extra month I think is just a decision about relationship with the publisher - we don't like: IXWEBHosting, PowWeb and Hostingator Extend 100% of the sales so I decided to stop promoting them.

[dcristo]

So they pay per-bid commission too?

Yes, very minimal though, like 15c per bid. Real money is with new registrations.

[tyrithe]

Yes, very minimal though, like 15c per bid. Real money is with new registrations.

I don't think you get anything just for bids. You do get a percentage (40-70) if you refer a winning bid though. And you get money for active referrals. (in the $12-20) range.

[iBold]

I have to disagree with a lot of the general feelings on this thread...

I promote mainly hosting affiliates (95% of my CJ commissions). I have only recently (the last few months) been focusing on HostGator.
Yes, they do extend all their comissions - but only because they have to to ensure that the customer doesn't cancel within their 30 day period.
I have always been paid the month after the commissions are extended by HostGator, and have yet to see a single reversal (at about 40 sales per month since December). Then again, I don't use adwords to promote them, not sure if that has something to do with it.

I would guess, of my entire CJ experience with Hosting affiliates, I've had maybe 3 reversals on my commissions out of a few hundred sales. And all three were with the same company, EasyCGI. StartLogic, HostGator, iPowerWeb, iPower, LunarPages, and Yahoo have all made good on their commissions.

this is a must. CJ loves to reverse commisions very often.
This couldn't be further from the truth. If you don't get paid, neither does CJ. And I'm pretty sure they like to be paid as much as you like to be..

[jackburton2006]

Heh heh, so you're saying there's a chance I'll get to see that $110 after all? :D

[Forcefield]

Heh heh, so you're saying there's a chance I'll get to see that $110 after all? :D

Congrats! Yeah, I would say you probably have a pretty good chance.

After all, there's always a possibility that the customer will decide to keep the hosting plan he/she purchased. ;)