Good news and bad news.
The affiliation system we’ve been relying on for the last year or so is about to die. That’s the bad news.
It’s being replaced by CJ.com. That might also be the bad news. But, maybe not.
Personally, I’ve never been too thrilled with CJ.com. Though, to be fair, I hadn’t even thought of them for ten years until this announcement hit me. Which in fact meant that, when I went over there to see whether they’ve ever improved, my account had died after being ignored for a decade. I set up a new one, for better or worse.
Functionally, this won’t change much of anything around here. In about a week, the system we’ve been using with CP all this time will simply end; then anyone with a CJ.com account will be able to send people to our CP stuff using their linkstructure; I’m not sure yet what the margin will be on that, but I’d assume it’ll still be 20%.
Also, mall.wastedinc.com should keep working, though I’ll have to give it my CJ.com number in the next few days.
I suppose that, if there is good news in all this, it’s that CJ.com already have a large network of places, handing out percentages for everything from HotTopic.com to Zappos.com. So, for affiliates who are in it for the money [there are probably other reasons, but I won't try to guess], this ultimately just expands their options quite a bit.
The less good news is that, at the moment, I’m not sure what the specific linkstructure is going to be. Though there should be a fairly simple wizard somewhere in CJ.com’s backend allowing you to set them up in a hurry.
If there’s more information in a week when this officially switches over, I’ll explain it here. For now, just be prepared to have the system which has worked perfectly since sometime in 2005 evaporate for some reason which is currently being called progress.
More later….
–Gremlin