Commission Junction question regarding URLs to use!

[Mike34]

1. I noticed that Commission Junction offers only banners & text links for their promos which has unique URLs inside in order to track each individual banner/text link performance for stat reasons.

What I need is just plain URL with my Commission Junction ID. inside which I can use for my own text links to make or place behind images I create myself. Other networks for example give you also plain URL with affiliate ID. inside which you can use for whatever purpose!

- Anyone who has experience with Commision Junction offers can tell me where I can find this plain URL as explained within my account?

The reason why I am asking is because the offer I want to promote through Commission Junction shows only 'flash' banners & I prefer not to place those 'flash' banners on my site offered by Commission Junction. Personnaly, I like banners without 'flash'!

2. Other question I have is that I can use 'confirmed' offers by Commission Junction advertisers like banners also for my other websites then the one I used when requesting to use that particular offer OR I have to submit again request to promote that particular offer for my other site as well!

Many thanks in advance!

[FourDegreez]

If you can't find the kind of link you want, the first thing you should do is mail the advertiser inquiring about it. Sometimes there will be a convoluted way to do what you're trying to do. I wanted to link directly to products for one advertiser. They told me to use a link that returned search results to those products--not exactly what I wanted, but that was the best they could do I guess.

[ConfusedWriter]

I simply use a text link that the merchant provides, for example:

"Free 2 week trial for signing up today..."

I then modify the text and insert my own graphics. So the final outcome is a hyperlink wrapped around an image.

As long as your merchant provides text links like this, they usually don't have a problem with you modifying the text within that link (in this case, I modified it to use an image instead).

Does this make sense?