Can anyone guide me about what technical specifications are needed to setup both CJ and linkshare. I am a newbie in affiliate marketing and need help..
It can be quite a task to sign up for CJ and Linkshare...All I can tell you is to follow the directions gien on the sign up page to a "T"...Exactly as told and do not put anything extra or leave anything out. When you log in...copy and paste your username and password in or it might not work. Do that every time. If your password does not work, send for another one and copy and paste it in..You will get in then. It takes patience! Hope this helps.. sage
I am also interested to know about this, because I have a brand new website with no traffic. Will they accept my application or do I need an older website?
But what all do I need..like I knw that I need to develop landing pages, determine cookie length..what else? Also can anybody tell me any pros and cons for setting up an affiliate program?
akinak, FYI, I've just created an account on CJ. They accepted me automatically once I completed the registration form. I guess signing up is easy in CJ, because they leave it to the advertisers to accept the publishers or not. I don't know about Linkshare though. Good luck!
You have to go join the networks first. Then you can log in and Get Links..then start applying to as many programs as you can. Sometimes you can't apply to 100 at a time but you can to 50 (little secret) to make it go faster. After you have applied to every program in both networks you can see who approved you and who declines you. Different companies have different standards for approvals. I won't get into that right now. Prepare to get a lot of emails when you join the programs. Then you will get emails from the merchants with your HTML or javascript banner codes in there...you can grab it and paste it into your blog header or where ever or into your header, footer or sidebar of your site. I recommend launching a series of focused niche blogs and then start filling them with merchant and product reviews. Yes its time-consuming but once you put it up on the web it's there forever to pull in traffic and generate click-throughs and sales for your merchants. I suggest 1 article per day per site to keep the spiders coming back frequently and indexing your content. PopShops.com is an easy way to add products from datafeeds to your site. Make sure to add unique product reviews to your sites. You should do things like posting on forums and relevant blogs with your sites hyperlinked (you know). Always make it a good post or comment so it gets approved and you will build a nice amount of inbound links over time, which are valued greatly by the search engines. I'd love to talk more about this...let me know what you think.