January 31, 2010
Qualifications Needed to Participate in Commission Junction
Many web site owners consider increasing targeted traffic to their web site by participating in an affiliate program. An affiliate program is a web based strategy where organizations reward each other for visitors generated by the affiliate’s efforts.
Affiliate programs take multiple forms; some are informal agreements between two parties while others are more formal engagements with third parties such as Commission Junction and Google.
While researching our clients’ participation with Commission Junction, we determined that their standards are too high for many small web site owners.
The standards below were obtained directly from the Commission Junction web site. After reading you will know immediately if you quality for participation.
- Selling online for at least 1 year
- Generate a minimum of $50,000 per month in online sales
- Already active in other forms of online advertising such as SEO, PPC or CPM
- Email program to remarket to your existing customers
- Site contains a secure shopping cart, a published return policy and guarantee, email communication confirming purchase and delivery of goods or services, and access to customer support
- Site contains no pop-ups on landing pages
- No template or blog sites
- Not an adult oriented or gaming site
- Not a regional site that is only targeting a small market
Always remember, if you need professional assistance with your web strategy, you can always contact WebConnection.
