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4/22/2008 9:12 AM
 

I would like to get ideas from anyone who has successfully set up and managed banners and affiliate marketing programs from Commission Junction in their DNN site. 

I'm struggling with the setup using the Vendors and Banners modules.

Any ideas, suggestions, direction, etc. would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance.

 
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4/22/2008 9:36 AM
 

If you could be more specific in the exact areas that would help.

In general, you could place the given script into your vendors advertising module, name the banner to what ever you wanted say CJ, then populate your site with a banner module, select the group name given ie CJ and your away.

There are other ways this can be done for example you could use third party affiliate cloaking aide to redirect the url, this stops the ugly link in your footer containing all of your affiliate links showing, and to do this you would copy the picuture , use the third party cloak and link to that.

also depending on the affiliate master used ie cj, you can take part of the code and place it in any text link and or picture link, but each one is different to use.

As above if you have specifics please yell out and we can try and sort it from there.

 

 
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4/22/2008 3:01 PM
 

Specifically, I'm confused by the banner set up form.

Commission Junctions uses a <a href=""><img src=""></a> structure with specialized properties in the anchor and img tags.

The form has three fields: "Image/Link", "Text/Script" and "URL"

I'm not sure where the link script for the banner goes - it does make sense to split the CJ link up.

??

 
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4/22/2008 4:04 PM
 

OK, what you should be able to do is copy the entire code, go to vendors and paste this complete code into your text / script section of vendors, from there up the top dial up banner type as script, then name the banner group to anything you want say AFFILIATE.

save the banner then re open it and if all is well you will see your affiliate link including image and or text depending on what you have chosen.

Now go to the page you wish to display the affiliate ad on and select banner from your modules, place the banner module on the page where you want then in edit mode type in AFFILIATE in the group name section and alter any other setting to suit and save.

this will display your banner. To keep in mind the banner rotator is probably only needed if you plan to run more than one ad in the same place, ie you load more examples in vendors and name them AFFILIATE as well.

For some thing like a single ad placement that you do not wish to rotate, just use a txt/html module on your page, create a table and then in edit mode for that table place the copied script into the table. this will display in the same way as the bannner.

With the code you mentioned, if you want to break it down the section after href is the part you need to copy, and use this as a link to a picture and or text you may create, but please test your hit counter is working when doing this as all are slightly different.

 
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4/22/2008 5:08 PM
 

I had this same issue – I am brand new at DNN (and all web work, actually), and really doing everything by trial and error or forum scanning, so while this may not be the absolute “correct” way, it worked for me. I always go right back in and test it – making sure the click is counted, and that the link tracks to my affiliate program.

 

This is what you get from Commission Junction:

 

<a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2498814-10461073" target="_top">

<img src="http://www.awltovhc.com/image-2498814-10461073" width="120" height="60" alt="Try Angie's List!" border="0"/></a>

 

To get it to work in DNN, you have to break it up into two places in the Banner module:

 

Image/Link (Select URL)

Use just the address after img src - http://www.awltovhc.com/image-2498814-10461073

 

Then for URL

Use the address portion -  http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2498814-10461073" target="_top”

 

Hope this works for you. If you join any other affiliate programs, it’s the same thing – just break apart the code into the two separate DNN banner module areas. If you want a text link, you would highlight just the text and copy/paste into the Image/Link.

 
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