What's an average CJ pay off?

[andrew_m]

I've displayed 117,157 commission junction ads in November, that resulted in just 118 clicks and exactly 0 dollars.

Care to share your statistics?

I use CJ as a substitution for AdSense PSA's, so these are text only ads. But still, should not the numbers be at least a little higher? If it's going to be like that I will better display PSA's, at least they benefit somebody..

[freitasm]

I served 5 times this in a couple of months and made $0. I'm happy with Google AdSense, and TribalFusion.

[nativenewyorker]

Hi andrew_m,

Welcome to Webmaster World.

One of the most important aspects of affiliate marketing is presenting advertising relevant to the topic of your website. With a clikthrough ratio of 1/1000, it would appear that your ads have no relevance to your website topic. It is likely that with such a low clickthrough ratio that some of those may even be accidental clicks.

If you post the topic of your website (Do not post the URL as it is against the Webmaster World TOS), some of the other members here may give you some ideas for products to promote.

Generally speaking, you and freitasm can help improve clickthroughs by

• targeting relevant ads to your audience
  
• weave text links (which usually have higher success than) into your content
  
• place ads above the fold (area of the screen that a user sees without scrolling)
  
• designing a professional and user friendly site
  
• avoid the use of popups which annoy users and make them click the back button
  
• keep the pages lean and avoid overloading them with dozens of flashing neon banners
  

Good luck.

Ted

[andrew_m]

Thanx. These are text only, located on the right as a block of three text-ads per page (they get substituted for AdSense PSA's, for the same size google tower ad).

The content is relevant (i think) -- the site provides books information and links are about where to buy books mainly.

So it got to be something else. This is why I asked for an averages other people are seeing -- if it's a norm or a deviation.

[korkus2000]

I don't really think affiliate links are going to work well in the adsense senerio. You really should have them woven into your content. Like say ebay is your affiliate and you are talking about blue widgets, in the content you could link to ebays auctions for blue widgets. Since they are already looking at blue widgets you are giving them a way to price widgets and hopefully buy. Banners and links off to the side really don't do that well, atleast in my experience.