This is copy pasted from my blog I'm Sergio. I don't get much traffic so I thought I'd post it here so people can still read it. AuctionAds is basically an eBay affiliate program, but it does a lot of the hard work for you. They’re my new favorite network, here’s why you should use it. 1. $10 payout. If you try it and don’t like it, at least you can wait till you hit $10 and get paid. 2. Snowball effect. When a user clicks an ad, there’s a cookie that expires in 30 days. If in 30 days the user wins a bid, you get commission. They can win any bid, it doesn’t have to be the one they clicked. 3. High CTR. Everyone knows the trick of putting relevant images next to ads which increases your CTR significantly. Well that’s not allowed, but AuctionAds technically does that automatically because the ads are displayed with a thumbnail of the product. 4. Relevancy. eBay is kind of like Google, it has everything. If your site is about doorknobs then the ads will be about doorknobs. *checks* Yes, there is doorknobs on eBay. 5. I lied, there’s only 4 reasons. Feel free to add your own. The following is copy pasted from another forum but it will help you understand how earnings are calculated, take note they are just estimates. 1000 impressions * 10% CTR = 100 possible bidders 100 possible bidders * 50% BTR = 50 bidders 50 bidders * 10% AWR = 5 wins with commission Now, how commission is figured is interesting. You get commissions on eBay’s revenue, which are the fees eBay earns on a winning auction. These are Insertion Fees and Final Value Fees. You can see how these add up here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html Your commission is a percentage of these fees, from 40 to 65% based on sales volume. AuctionAds is consolidated under one account, so I’d expect them to hit 57.5 to 60%. So here’s an example commission: Winning bid: $39.93 Insertion fee: $.40 (based on the start price of $1.00) Final Value Fee: $25.00 * 5.25% + $14.93 * 3.25% = $1.31 + $.49 = $1.80 Total fees: $.40 + $1.80 = $2.20 Commission: $2.20 * 60% = $1.32 So, with this auction & the numbers above, 100 clicks COULD earn you 5 * $1.32 = $6.60. You basically don’t need a lot of traffic to earn more money. Results may vary depending on your audience. If they’re too young then they probably won’t be shopping online as much as older teenagers or adults. It also depends on your keywords, tweak them until you are happy with the results. I’m not joking about the keywords thing, play with them or you won’t earn anything! One last thing, you might not see results immediately because obviously not all auctions end in one day. The above example uses a 10% CTR, seems impossible? I'd post screenshots of my stats but my screenshot button doesn't work. I hope that helped you understand AuctionAds a little better, and I hope even more that you start making some money.
I haven't tried them on many sites yet, but getting 5 winning bidders from 100 clicks is very optimistic IMO. Any success with car forums?
Well, maybe I'm the only one, but I'm disappointed.. 201 clicks, VERY highly targeted, $0,00. This was the week after they started. GOnna give them another go. Who knows..
A good reason would be some decent revenue ... I'm not seeing that anywhere Unless you have a product oriented website, I can't see how you can make money with auctionads. This might only work on sites like cell phone review sites
Same, my revenue has been laughable as seen here. I don't care how easy it is to use, how pretty it looks, how fast they pay, how they pay, how relevant they are, or if they cured the Pope's cancer. If they aren't materially affecting my bottom line better than other services, they'll see the boot. I hope things change and FAST when it comes to earnings because I DO like the system. But every day I am using it as of right now, I'm losing a lot of money because I'm not running much better paying ads.
Thats great. We hope all web site owners will give it a try and see if it works for their site. If not, no sense in running it. For a lot of site owners, they were losing money by NOT having this avenue of monetization.
Well, near 1,000 clicks now, and the GRAND AMOUNT OF $0,00!!!! As was said, I love the system too, but it just doesn't convert.. I tried them before, nearing 700 clicks (took a few days to reach that - but then took them down). This was a few weeks ago. Got nothing. Took them down until 4 days ago, when I put them back up since google cancelled my account. I got my adsense account reinstated, so I'll be removing them again, but since then I had another 300 clicks. Lets see: @ the 5 reasons: #1: $10 payout is low, but to even REACH that payout, I will have lost more than $10 in potential ads from google. #2: Its been over a month.. nothing here. Maybe 700 clicks (thats with adsense generally over $100 worth) isn't enough traffic? #3: YES! I have a 3% CTR! But what of it if it doesnt convert? Am I just loosing my visitors to an ebay auction? #4: Again very true! I couldn't have dreamt of ever showing such targeted ads. I'm not joking either - Its a wow based site, and its showing ads for the game as well as buying wow gold. #5: I agree fully. I've given Auctionads enough time to prove me wrong. I'm pulling the plug.
I have had great success except for today some reason it isn't showing relevant ads and i haven't changed my keyword trigger.
It is a breeze to implement AuctionAds which I did this morning at car-alarms.onlinereadingcenter.com which is a sub-domain of a 1500-pages OnlineReadingCenter.com