Hi I have a question that i need help with, i have been a cj publisher for 7 months and didnt make a dime till last month when i decided to post "Lead" ads, or Cost Per Action. the action was a submittal of customer information like name,phone,email, etc.. the pay out is 75 cents per submittal. obviously the setup is that an end user finds my website and clicks on "advertisers" ad and fills out a short form on their website. the form is for a touristy hotel company that takes the information and calls the customer back to try and sell rooms. my website targets touristy people that are looking to travel so i decided to create my own form on my website with the same information like the hotel advertisers form (name, email, phone etc..). after recieving the information from my form i turn around and enter it into the advertisers form on their website (of course using my affiliate code to get payed out). i get a much better performance, it seems as though %75 more people will fill out the form on my site rather then leave my site to fill it out at advertisers site- i do warn them that by filling out the form they are asking for "X" Company to contact them for hotel rooms. before i go asking the advertiser company about this does anyone have any experiences like this? im worried that the advertiser will be getting all these forms submitted (on a daily basis) from the same ip address (my computer) and i dont know if its against their policy.
Since all forms will be submitted by same IP, probably there system will flag them as bogus. Instead of submitting form yourself, you collect the information in your website, when user click the submit button, you transfer all data to merchant site and submit it.
thanks for that info ahref, that would be an ideal setup but what kind of programming will that involve? will i need to work with the advertisers webmaster to enable form traffic from my site to be submitted to his site? in my 7 years as a webdesigner i have never heard of a technique like this although i totally understand its concept.
Create a duplicate version of the merchants form but on your site. In the "action" field type "http://www.theirsite.com/theirform.htm" and it will work. Make sure you email them to explain what you have done and get their approval. The last thing you want is your payments to be turned down in a months time.
When you define your website with CJ there is also a "special options" field (I can't remember the name). They actually talk about this. Some advertisers don't mind if you do this action on behalf of the customer while others do. If you can copy the form and have the submit button on your site... that might be ideal.