Seems that every mainstream webmaster I speak to lately has nothing good to say about CJ... and as well I have noticed that alot of advertisers and affiliate programs have jumped the boat and left for greener pastures...

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Agree on that, my account got suspended for no good reason.

Not that i am that good at affiliate marketing..but to be honest i have used cj for 3 years and never made a penny - the same site made me 130 dollars a month in adsense earnings from google.
Till now, the only affiliate program that has ever paid me was adsense, and once, tattoodles.com, after which never again.
For this reason i stick with google adsense and fill in extra spaces with amazon ads which dont do so well but bring in the odd sale once in a while.
I am now trying Clickbank as many people say it is good..i am still waiting for results.
Google pays per impression too not just per click and sale/lead....
The other problem with CJ is that advertizers get bounced in and out and change their policies like hellfire..often getting kicked out..
well, if you have pasted a thousand links from these sites into hundreds of pages all over the www how the hell are you going to find them all and remove them?
no no..plus the cookie thing..they say payment if customer returns within 90 days before cookie expires you get6 paid..well shoot me! what if everybody has their browser set to delet all temp files and cookies on closing the browser as i do???
then they make a sale and you get nothing! which is what i suspect to have happened to have caused me to recieve no payment in three years on a site that gets 100 thousand visitors a month.
CJ, all that... waste of time.