I have been planning on reviewing my first 2 months at Commission Junction for a while so I guess now is as good of a time as any. Commission Junction is the big boy on the block when it comes to affiliate marketing. They have a very large selection of advertisers and an excellent interface. The interface is head and shoulders better than everyone else and the reporting is also top notch.

Commission Junction also offers “SmartZones” which are very handy if you aren’t a pure programmer. A SmartZone allows you to pick an ad size and create a group of ads that will randomly rotate on your page. The SmartZone creates a small script that you place on your website where you want your ad to display. Once you place that script on your site, you don’t have to change the website code to change the ads. All you have to do is add or remove the ads in your Commission Junction SmartZone settings. This makes changing your adds a breeze.

There is a great variety of ads as well. You have all the standard ad sizes plus text ads, keyword ads, content ads, and product catalogs.  My biggest success yet has been a CJ content ad I put up on a domain and started sending PPC traffic to it.  It has a CTR of over 27% and the EPC is over $40.

If I had to find something bad to say about Commission Junction I guess it would be you are a small fish in the pond there.  If I have an account manager there I don’t know it and I have yet to have any emails I sent to advertisers answered.

I really have to give Commission Junction a good grade as an Affiliate marketer. They provide good products, good tools, and good payouts.  If you are going to run a legitimate affiliate marketing  business, you have to have CJ in your arsenal of tools.