I’m testing Chitika on another site of mine… one that’s so content-oriented it confuses AdSense and every other ad network/affiliate I’ve thrown at it. I will probably test it on some other sites sooner or later. (Edited to add: it’s now on this one, up there at the top of the sidebar.)
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Well, I did actually get paid by CJ this month, in full. So it looks to me like there’s a 90-day delay on your first payout, and after that is when the reliable payments I’ve heard about kick in.

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Wow. I just put up ShareaSale links above all my CJ links over the past few days on those sites where ShareASale had relevant product links. Already got a commission.
In the case of this particular merchant, they are so cool I originally wanted to build the whole site around them months ago before [...]

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In light of CJ’s turn to the darkside, I’ve been burying my CJ links with ShareaSale links at my aff sites. This way, CJ’s still in play, but I’m giving ShareASale a real chance to compete on sales. ShareASale is the superior network in every other way, such as having rules in place [...]

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I’m going to continue using CJ despite the insane new PSA they’ve put into place that strips all our rights while creating loopholes to be exploited by them or by the merchants. Here’s what I’m doing to protect myself.
I’ve made a PDF of the whole thread of Todd’s responses at ABW. When a [...]

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I’m urging everyone to read the PSA at CJ very carefully. It allows for transaction reversals at any point in time (even though CJ promises they would never abuse it) and demands a privacy policy on OUR sites that would legally make us responsible for any cookie abuse CJ or its advertiers commit (even [...]

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If you’re looking for really cheap hosting to get started, but you want something reliable with decent support, I have a story to tell you. I’ve been building new affiliate marketing sites lately, and moving a couple of my other sites around to new hosts. I’m not one of those people who insists [...]

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So I’m building product links for all the new affiliate sites I’m trying to have cranked out in plenty of time for Christmas (they were supposed to be done last August, but you know how certain sites were being really difficult to log in to, so I’m a bit behind) and I notice one of [...]

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For anyone still following the great “Why have all my commissions been sitting in ‘locked’ or ‘new’ mode for three months, thus delaying my first CJ check?” epic saga, the answer turned out to be: it’s something they do to newbies to check for fraud. What kind of fraud? Don’t ask me. [...]

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If you don’t know why it’s important to establish your site links either with or without the “www”, using a 301 redirect to make sure the “wrong” version gets rerouted to the write one, read my article on 301 htaccess www redirects and come back to this for the rest.
Now, that’s all really simple and [...]

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