Ouch. Knowing something and then actually seeing it in action has an impact often times. Those links can't be integrated into her RSS feed and most likely forum either.
Kevin Delaney
· 3 years ago
It seems to me that a banner with redirect code gives the merchant sufficient control over an ad. They can change any thing said in the image of the banner and the destination of an ad. The only thing they really can't change is the ALT Tag (in CJ parlance the "Null" tag).
Many merchants such as Overstock are successfully using promotion code banners that they control.
There are benefits that can be had with Javascript. The SmartZone code is a better example of what you can do with JS. The affiliate can use a smartzone to rotate banners, or can use the CJ interface to swap out banners.
There are probably some extremely cool things that could be done that let merchants and affiliates program pages with JS ... however such efforts would start by publishing an interface for controlling JS scripts and not an LMI mandate.
Liz Welsh-Tompkins
· 3 years ago
This is my website.
This is my website now going thru Javascript (JS) Detox.
We just returned from a biz trip in NYC and I can't tell you how many complaints we received from our subscribers that anytime they tried to access a page of ours which had one of these nasty links embedeed, how mad they were when the page was blanked and/or completely whited out.
In retail, the customer is ALWAYS #1. And that was enough for me to decide to remove each and every JS based link from our site. Our traffic suffered dramatically during this experimentation too. Oh...and a customer told me they ordered from those Circuit City JS links and guess what...I haven't seen one darn sale from any of the experiment links we were using either. A definite no-win, no-win.
If CJ's reading: If it isn't broke...don't fix it. What's been working for over 6 years should remain. Let's work on growth. There are way better directions Internet shopping is moving and I'm so proud of you for being the first to start opening the global affiliate gateway. Let's work on that together. Can the JS links. They're not useful!
If merchants are reading: If you decide, even after the holidays, to run your affiliate program based purely on JS links, we'll unfortunately have no other choice than to discontinue our partnership with you. And that would make us very sad.
Thanks so much for the powerful visual Scott! A picture's worth a 1000 words. Waving from 25 miles away :)
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Many merchants such as Overstock are successfully using promotion code banners that they control.
There are benefits that can be had with Javascript. The SmartZone code is a better example of what you can do with JS. The affiliate can use a smartzone to rotate banners, or can use the CJ interface to swap out banners.
There are probably some extremely cool things that could be done that let merchants and affiliates program pages with JS ... however such efforts would start by publishing an interface for controlling JS scripts and not an LMI mandate.
This is my website now going thru Javascript (JS) Detox.
We just returned from a biz trip in NYC and I can't tell you how many complaints we received from our subscribers that anytime they tried to access a page of ours which had one of these nasty links embedeed, how mad they were when the page was blanked and/or completely whited out.
In retail, the customer is ALWAYS #1. And that was enough for me to decide to remove each and every JS based link from our site. Our traffic suffered dramatically during this experimentation too. Oh...and a customer told me they ordered from those Circuit City JS links and guess what...I haven't seen one darn sale from any of the experiment links we were using either. A definite no-win, no-win.
If CJ's reading: If it isn't broke...don't fix it. What's been working for over 6 years should remain. Let's work on growth. There are way better directions Internet shopping is moving and I'm so proud of you for being the first to start opening the global affiliate gateway. Let's work on that together. Can the JS links. They're not useful!
If merchants are reading: If you decide, even after the holidays, to run your affiliate program based purely on JS links, we'll unfortunately have no other choice than to discontinue our partnership with you. And that would make us very sad.
Thanks so much for the powerful visual Scott! A picture's worth a 1000 words. Waving from 25 miles away :)
Liz