Tried Auction Ads Yet?

[Gavin]

I just received an invite from Text Link Ads to join Auction ads which has been launched with Shoemoney onboard.

I have to admit I am impressed on how the ads look. Anyone else try them out yet? Would be great for those who target eBay users.

You can read more from Auction Ads Launches - ShoeMoney™

 

[mneylon]

New Monetisation Program

Auction Ads - Increase the Bid on Your Site's Income!

Looks like it could be a nice way of making a bit of cash, though it may not work too well for Irish traffic ...

I'll have to play with it first !

 

[Gavin]

I just made a new thread about it. Looks like a really good program with attractive ads.

 

[mneylon]

I just made a new thread about it. Looks like a really good program with attractive ads.

"Does AuctionAds support international affiliates?

AuctionAds currently supports traffic from all countries in which eBay has a presence. Ad units currently only display ads in English, but all click traffic is geotargeted to the visitors country.

To clarify: at this time no ads are displayed from other countries' eBay sites. When a non-US visitor clicks an ad, they are taken to a search page of items from the same keywords. As ad impression volume builds, we will consider adding local ad display.
"

 

[Gavin]

Interesting but not much of concern for me as most of my sites are U.S. targeted.

what's your take on sending people to the Search page rather than the item? I'm thinking it is actually a good thing as it gives the visitor more options in regards to prices.

An eBay user would probably search other auctions for pricing difference on the item.

 

[mneylon]

I'll put it on a couple of sites and see how it goes before I pass judgement

 

[Gavin]

Problem is for me is thinking of what sites to test them on. I don't have any that relates to e-commerce and don't want to loose visitors that have no intention of buying from e-Bay.

 

[Gavin]

I ended putting them on my SEO blog. Some of the images can be of really bad quality which is a bit off putting.

 

[mneylon]

Do you think anyone will click?

 

[Gavin]

Do you think anyone will click?

I think they will.

Some of those ads would be of high interest to the webmasters who buy domains etc from eBay. I have seen a couple of good deals pop up.

 

[mneylon]

Is it contextual or do you have to set keywords?

 

[Gavin]

You can use keywords which is good. You can also change the colours as like Adsense.

 

[mneylon]

You can use keywords which is good. You can also change the colours as like Adsense.

But is it contextual (without the keywords) ?

 

[Gavin]

No you get prompted for the keywords. I am just thinking, after reading comments on Cormacs blog, 2% is a very low payout considering eBay can payout 40% for a direct affiliate.

Probably would be better to come up a script that does the same job and use your own link. I might know someone who could probably create a script for this and make it the same...interesting.

 

[mneylon]

I haven't really looked at eBay's affiliate setup, so I can't make a sane comment, but I've seen people doing some very interesting things with some of the other ones, such as Amazon's

However I've never made a cent from Amazon on any of my blogs.

 

[Gavin]

Dido with Amazon even though I have sent them some clicks.

I have been just looking at the eBay affiliate program with their API's and tools. eBay Affiliate Program - Create campaigns with powerful affiliate tools

 

[mneylon]

I suppose the biggest problem is matching the affiliate programs to the sites

Amazon's policy change on electronics is really annoying, as I am definitely losing sales

 

[mneylon]

I've seen a couple of interesting implementations where they grab the search query and shove it into the code... It's a lot more contextual

 

[Redfly]

Gavin has a great writeup here:
Ireland SEO Marketing » AuctionAds Shows Too Many Bare Arses

This is why I will never implement the AA code or the MyBlogLog code on any site I own or admin.

 

[mneylon]

Fair enough