Commission Junction SID Plug-in

Track CJ Conversions from Joomla!

Take control of tracking your conversions on Commission Junction with the CJ SID Plugin for Joomla! 1.5! Tracking conversions has always been a challenge for publishers in affiliate programs. Fortunately, CJ offers a way to collect a little more information through the SID value. What's the SID value? In 2005, CJ introduced the Shopper ID a part of the "Smart Rewards" Program. The initial intent was to allow publishers to record which registered user made a purchase, then reward that shopper accordingly. CJ's Smart Reward FAQ for publishers has this to say:

This is also a fantastic opportunity for publishers to track the effectiveness of our links. For example, which specific links are performing the best? Where are the best candidates for improvement or optimization? If you're running ads on four pages on your site, and you're only getting conversions from one of them, why not tune up the other three or change the ad entirely? Using the SID, we can include the source of the conversion, like the specific page title, and adjust accordingly. That's where this CJ SID Plugin for Joomla! 1.5 comes in!

Features

As always, we appreciate feedback from you. If you see a way to improve this plugin to make it more useful, let us know and we'll add it to an upcoming release. The current version includes the following features:

• Automatically and consistently append a sid value to all CJ links throughout your Joomla! 1.5 site.
• Simple setup and configuration, install, add your CJ PID, select the SID value, enable and it's done.
• Requires no modification to your article or modules.
• Customizable SID value, choose from Joomla Username, Real Name, User ID, or Page Title
• Works with all CJ links (except encrypted links) including text, image and advanced links
• Joomla 1.5! Native
• Ignores links which already have SIDs, so you can customize on a per-link basis

Live Demo

If you'd like to see this Plugin in action, browse over to our Online Scrabble site. Scroll down to the bottom. There's a centered CJ banner ad. We've displayed this ad using Joomla's included Banner component, and set up the plugin to send the page title as the sid value. Use your browser's status bar or view the page source to see the sid value in the string. This banner is displayed on most pages on the site, and you'll be able to see the sid value change to match the page title on various pages.