Commission Junction Network

Commission Junction

Commission Junction is an online advertising company owned by ValueClick and operating in the affiliate marketing industry. The company is the largest affiliate network in North America and operates worldwide. Among the top 500 retailers using 3rd party affiliate marketing software, 62% are powered by Commission Junction. Along with being the world's largest Affiliate Network, Commission Junction also provides "performance marketing solutions". Their corporate headquarters is located in Santa Barbara, California, with other offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Westborough. Commission Junction has also offices in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden and Spain. The company has over 1,500 customers including Dell; Overstock.com; Home Depot; Zappos; Bed, Bath, and Beyond; and Yahoo!.

How to make money from Commission Junction

Step 1: Get a website
If you do not have a website or blog, it's not hard to get one. There are several blog sites that you can sign up to for free, such as wordpress or blogger. If you want to create a website you can purchase a domain and a web host for your site. Godaddy and Hostgator are a couple that have reasonable prices. So, the first step is to get a blog or website up and running, if you do not have one already.
Step 2
The next step would be to sign up to commission junction.
Step 3
Once signed up you can browse through the different advertisers, they have over 1,000 to choose from. Click on get links from the homepage. there will be categories of advertisers to choose from. Click on a category to look at the advertiser list in the category you chose. To find out more details about their program you can click on the advertiser that you are interested in.
Step 4
Try to pick an advertiser that sells a product or service that is associated with your blog or website, so you have more of a chance of earning some money. Once you find one you are interested in you will have to click on the "join program" button. You will have to agree to their terms and conditions so read them carefully. Some programs will approve you automatically and some will approve you manually.
Once you are approved for a program it will be added to your link relation ship list, which is a list of all the advertisers that approved you. to post their links on your website or blog.
Step 5
To get the link for the advertiser that approved you, click on the get links tab from the homepage of commission junction. Then click on the by relationship tab, you will see a list of all the advertiser programs that have approved you. Then you will click on the view links under the advertiser you want to get a link for (make sure you choose an advertiser that says you are active). If you choose to post a link from an advertiser that is not active (or has not approved you yet) to your website or blog, you will not collect a commission on the sales or leads.
Step 6
Next step will be choosing a link or banner. When you click on "view links" a list will pop up for all the links that you can post on your site or blog. Once you find a link you like click on it and from there you can copy HTML or JAVA for that links and paste it to you website or blog.
Step 7
Once you paste it to your blog or website, click publish and the link should appear there. That's it you're done, now your site is monetized by commission junction.