I am very frustrated now with AA.... when I started using AA in June my stats were great and my impressions and clicks were very consistent across the entire month.... in July and even still now in August the impressions and clicks are a fraction of what they should be.... the traffic on my sites has even increased in the last 4 weeks.
I'm starting to believe that the clicks reported on May and June were incorrect and now we are getting the real amount of clicks. I placed my AuctionAds ads on places where I should have had low CTR, and on those months, the CTR was greater than in my premium placed Adsense. Now I'm getting lower CTR on those ads, but this CTR is more real in my opinion. I hope I'm wrong and they are having some tracking problems. Anybody noticed the same?
Still no earnings from my sites or 2nd tier since July 9th. I cut back on ads somewhat but still have enough running to get this from July 10th to Aug. 5th: Total: 12,767 imp. 285 clicks 2.23 CTR $0.00 earnings Before July 10th, I was averaging about 10 cents/click in earnings if you want to look at it that way. Something is still wrong, IMHO.
My earnings haven't shown for the past two weeks. All zeros. The earnings seem to update about every fortnight though so I'm not too worried.
YUp, their stats are screwed up since the new owners. going form making about 50-60 a week to 2.00 something is seriously wrong with them. They will not even answer emails for m anyway. I wonder how many of the 20k publishers are left?
Same here. CTR is down but still getting plenty of clicks for being in lesser performing positions. Revenue has been showing up fairly consistently again.
The entire program is shady. Supposedly sending along 100% of the earnings, where do they make their money? Also, the tiers that they sell you on, I never saw. Supposedly I'm owed some more, if we are meeting the tiers they claim, but I've never seen a cent. It's freaking amazing how a program such as this has the inability to track individual leads. Anyone that has used the program through CJ knows that it's possible and reported by ebay.
i have been seeing a huge difference in the "weekly earning" at the "home" page than those shows in the stat report for the same days.
my auctionads performance is really poor. I got lots of impressions and low clicks and I have made very little money.
I remember when Shoemoney launched Auction Ads, he said that they could pay 100% for six months. In another post, there is an explanation that 100% means not only what you earned at your tier, but also he was passing the bonus he (Shoemoney) earned as a CJ superaffiliate. How he distributed these bonus, I don't know. Remember that all Auction Ads subscribers are, in some way, Shoemoney subaffiliates. So while we make sales into the lower tiers, all the members combined sales make Shoemoney reach higher tiers. I guess it was a move to sell the company. Or perhaps that wasn't the intention, who knows. The fact is that he didn't keep any money and captured a lot of members in less than half a year. Now he sold the company and I suppose he made some nice money with this sale. Of course, I don't expect to keep on receiving a 100% including bonus from the new company. Or could they? As long as this program keeps working for me, I will stay with it. And when time to move on comes, I will move on.
There is certainly a lack of transparency and some unanswered questions. And the lack of detailed stats like those through CJ is a shortcoming. Have any big earners instrumented their website to track AA stats better? When I replace AA with ebay/CJ I get more clicks and earnings. Same ad placement and keywords. The uglier Editor Kit ads would make me expect the opposite, that is, lower earnings than AA. But that's not the case. It's hard to know if that is the result of AA downtime, cacheing issues, tracking issues, or ? I'm not a big earner so I don't think my numbers are significant enough to draw solid conclusions. But for me it's pretty simple - same product (ebay) and better results through CJ. Maybe if MW makes some improvements that will change. Like downtime, obviously. But that cacheing issue - I get good results with long tail keywords with CJ but with AA those auctions aren't cached and I get all that Webkinz garbage.