So you are saying that a site sending 100 hits per day isn't worth the resources to serve ads related to the keywords? That's an important piece of information. You should put that in the FAQ so people can pass on this program instead wasting their time and advertising space. Edit: Backspace on "hits". If hits means impressions, well, yeah, that's practically zero traffic so resources spent on that are wasted. But if "hits" means clicks, then that's another story.
I'm not sure why you feel like you need to troll on AA all the time. I said hits, I meant hits. I'm not saying we don't "waste" resources on small sites, but resources are not infinite and we're not going to cache ads for sites with infinitesimal amounts of traffic and sacrifice memory space for great performing high-traffic sites. Come on, thats common sense.
AA's stats have no term called "hits". They have impressions and clicks. So if you still mean "hits" then you still haven't related it to any stats that AA reports. As far as trolls go, AA really needs someone more professional as its representative in the forums.
I just discovered the negative keywords can be used as well. For example, if you want to display Diesel, but not purses, try this: auctionads_ad_kw = "diesel -bag -purse -wallet"; I have one general keyword and a long list of negative keywords. The relevant listings get cached after the first search. Works pretty well so far.
Interesting. I'm trying that right now. I getting a bunch of purses and stuffed toy ads on a site sending 10k imps and 150 clicks per day (too small?). Tried it but no effect. No commas between negative words?
No commas. This is exactly correct: auctionads_ad_kw = "diesel -bag -purse -wallet"; The proper way to specify 2 "brands" would be: auctionads_ad_kw = "diesel -bag -purse -wallet;lucky -bag -purse -wallet"; If you're still not getting ads after waiting 2 minutes after the first page load, please send the URL to AA support and reference this thread.
Ok, the stuffed toy ads stopped. Now it is something else. I think I'm just chasing this around. For my own understanding is this how it works?: AA caches auctions that match keywords of publishers, and then serves ads for those auctions. This makes the ad serving fast - it would be far too slow to fetch from ebay and then serve the ads each time. Keywords that aren't common and aren't getting lots of requests will likely not have auctions cached by AA so some alternative ads are served. So individual pages that are low traffic with uncommon keywords will probably not get relevant ads, especially during high traffic periods with cache resources are being used by high traffic keywords. Knowing that should lead publishers to avoid uncommon keywords even if they are more relevant to a webpage or a blog post, unless they know they will have high traffic on that particular page.
Anyone help me out with the following? I have just sent this request to auction ads tech support --------------- "Hello Sir / Madam, I have recently started using auction ads, and i must say i am very impressed. I have one problem that i hope you could help me with, i currently have auction ads running on xxx sites targeting xxx with negative keywords. When i open any of my sites through an american server your auction ads work perfectly, excellent targetting (ebay.com) and you bounce straight to that product. When i open any of my sites through a uk server the targetting goes to (ebay.co.uk) - great, but my negative keywords appear as positive in ebay and i then get a (0 results shown page) ;-{ If you could help me with this matter that would be great. Kind regards"
Yup, yup! I wrote to them about this problem weeks ago and never received a reply. You can read my AuctionAds Keyword Tips. It's all there. (I did read somewhere that they claim the ads still convert in spite of the problem. Dunno. I don't have any data either way.)
AuctionAds is run by 2 people at most currently. Do you really expect an answer? There are a lot of problems with their tracking at the moment. For me nothing works except single keyword searches. I'm just going to wait it out.
Here a quote from the AA admin panel: I am seeing problems with single keyword ads also. So I am pulling AuctionAds from several sites until they fix the servers. *I have removed the email address.
Just a quick update, auctionads have responded to my support request and are looking into the positive / negative issue as described a couple of posts ago.
i started off great with AA making $18.10 the first 10 days but since then i have made just under $10 and im not impressed. the clicks have also decreased aswell. the downtime is a paint in the ass aswell.
in the past couple days i ahve been getting over 50 clciks on my AA and hopefully i can make some serious money or i will be dropping the program infavour of my own version of AA.
If you have your own version of AuctionAds and you are still using AuctionAds, that says a lot about your version doesn't it... especially with all the recent issues we have been having. So I hope that wasn't some type of sales pitch trying to get people to click into your sig. I know that any publicity is good publicity, but lol...
my sig has nothing to do with AA and by the way i would have a different way or using it and it would have nothing to do with AA as it would run on a different platform.
I get about 8000 hits a day. Click-thru rate with AuctionAds is really good, and hasn't affected my AdSense. Over 18 days I made, I think, 2 actions. One day I made $2 and another over $50! I was going to pull the ads until I saw the $50. I target ads to each category on my RSS Feed Directory 18 day stats: Total 166631 627 0.38 $53.23 07/17 <aggregate> 15762 46 0.29% $50.47 (After I pulled most of the ads) 07/21 <aggregate> 807 1 0.12% $2.76 Now I'm putting the ads back to see what's really possible!