10 Reasons Why You Must Sign-up and Display AuctionAds
I’m a huge fan of AuctionsAds.com and not because Shoemoney (founder of AuctionAds) is a friend of mine.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with AuctionAds, it allows you to monetize your website traffic by displaying LIVE EBAY auctions via the Auction Ads widget.
With AuctionAds, you have the ability to serve ads based on the content of your website via a keyword search technology.
For instance, if you own an “iPod Review” website you simply tell the widget to search EBAY in real-time for related “iPod” products. The Auctions Ads technology delivers the ads on your website via placement of a simple JavaScript code.
When a user clicks on your ad unit and performs an action (i.e., bids on a product, purchases something via “Buy it Now,” registers, or simply wins an auction, you make money.
If you haven’t sign-up yet for AuctionAds you can do so HERE.
Here are 10 Reasons why you must sign-up and display AuctionAds on your website:
1) AuctionAds was created to let users easily leverage the very lucrative eBay affiliate system but in a way that is easy for publishers to use. New users can be running ads and making money with AuctionAds in as little as 5 minutes after signing up with AuctionAds.
2) Geo-targeting – We have relationships with every eBay country programs and automatically geo-target your international traffic for you. If you’re not geo-targeting, you’re giving up valuable revenue.
3) Huge inventory – The depth of items on eBay gives site owners in even the smallest niches the opportunity to show their visitors items they will be interested in.
4) Editorial control – With many advertising programs you give them the power to determine what your page is about and match you to the best advertiser. Many times this can result in ads that are either not related or worst-case could be advertisements you want to avoid.
5) Publisher referral program – Each time your ad is displayed it also includes an automatic link to AuctionAds with your referral id. Many people see the ads and want to run them on their own sites and if someone signs up from your ad you will earn a 2% bonus. Interested in signing-up for the AA Referral program, CLICK HERE.
6) Net-0 payments – Stop waiting 15 to 45 days to get paid. AuctionAds pays the 1st of every month for the previous month.
7) Option to open in a new window – One of the biggest gripes of publishers is that in order to get paid from other advertising programs a user must leave their site. With AuctionAds publishers have the option to open the eBay auction in a new window. This way when they are done shopping on eBay they can resume where they left off at your website.
8 ) Leveraging the highest tiers of the eBay affiliate program – The eBay program has many levels of payouts based on volume. The users of AuctionAds pool together volume to give everyone the highest payouts possible from the eBay program.
9) Additional revenue stream – Due to the pictures in ads and unique nature of AuctionAds you can feel free to run it in conjunction with other popular programs like Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network. If one of these other programs are already working for you, AuctionAds can be a nice additional income stream for you.
10) Great Looking Ads related to your content – AuctionAds can really spice up the look of your website with relevant content. Between the international targeting and the huge inventory of the eBay system its pretty safe to say that AuctionAds is the most flexible advertising program ever.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
after 30 days of testing parallel in 50% adSense 50% AuctionAds random displaying ad both 500 to 600 ad impressions per day, total ~16k ad impressions and ctr ~4% both auctionAds generated $0.00 and adSense couple of hundreds of bucks.
Targeting was sharp with keywords and I cannot believe that after ~600 clicks did not have eBay leads nor sales
Maybe it’s because eBay is not best place to buy “travel” but I gave up.
Second reason is AA support answers mails with one word like “Sure”, “No way”, “No we don’t” that is sharp but little bit of redundancy would not harm… it makes me feel like that I talk with pimp in Harlem.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
The referral ID being included in the Ads is really cool, I already got 4 referrals
May 15th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
viralmarketing – my guess is that your vertical (travel) is not a great match for AuctionAds, especially since EBAY is not known as a travel website. In contrast, Google’s technology is able to deliver highly relevant, high paying travel ads from expedia, cheaptickets, hotwire and others.
95% of the people I have spoken with that use or have used Google Adsense and AuctionAds at the same time have seen more revenue from AuctionAds. In fact, in some cases the two weren’t even comparable.
Thanks for sharing your experiences!
May 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I tried it for a short bit, giving it tens of thousands of impressions, and make virtually no money at all on my technology oriented website. Google Adsense ran circles around it. This is on a site that receives over 100,000 unique IP address visitors a day.