Can't login to the auctionads website, and my sites are seriously slowing down with the current cock up - come on auctionads get it together ffs edit: i've just looked on this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=423650&highlight=mediawhiz maybe they are changing the website?
That's not negative speculation... how dare you even suggest that they could possibly be improving on something Though, honestly, I too am hoping for the best. I like the concept of AA and am hoping they get it together. Most of my pages are static so I've been manually adding the code to them...I dread the notion of going back in and removing all the ads so my fingers are crossed that things will be swell soon enough.
I think it's all my fault. I kept my eye on them and when they seamed to be operating more or less normal (not the stats though) I restored the AA ads on my site to their former glory. And today, they're down again! Hours already. Well actually more like AA worked really well for me so I really want it back (CJ not being an option as I'm not a US citizen)
I added them to several of my pages yesterday as well. Was going to add more of them today, but now I'm not so sure... I think I'll utilize my time today looking into alternatives instead.
At the moment it looks like they are down again. The pages where I haven't yet removed AA are hanging waiting for AA ads to load. I'm removing the rest of them now.
yeah I had lots of my sites 'lock up' with them today, I have removed the ads from my sites and it's solved the problem.
AA does seem to be back on line now... So, your sites should be running smoothly again. Though, heh, I'm not really saying put the ads back. I'm still pondering if it was the right thing in adding more ads yesterday. Not that my 100 impressions amount to all that much...
Pulled AA off of my last few sites that had it. I will need to see people making a lot of money, with no downtime for several weeks before I even consider trying again. The shame is that I just finished a mini-net geared towards an AA niche.
well, for me in the last month and the beginning of this, AA has changed completly. I'm seeing money from AA in my sites. It's the proof that all depends on the niche of the site/blog where you have AuctionAds, and of course you need allways to tweak the ads for the best place. The worst problem with AA is the downtimes, that is really killing AA.
That and targeting problems, I just saw wrong ads again, and this after several refreshes, just in case, to see that it wasn't just a cache problem but no, they sticked to "Star Wars" all the way. Guess what, my visitors don't care about Star Wars. The day before these new troubles one of my adblocks had a CTR of 4%! Followed the advise in one of there new blog posts. But now it's ruined again. Not to mention the stats which just keep showing zero's all the way where my earnings should be and I learned from the previous month that although there are mostly zero's, I did make money. So I guess I'm making money right now, but no stats so no sure way to know until the end of the month. Grrrrrrrr. PS. I don't want exciting new features, for now I want stable current features thank you very much. After that, new features are welcome but not just right now.
I agree and that wouldn't even be the worst of it if they had some representatives that had some manners. Slap Shoe's name on it and it's assumed everyone is going to follow along blindly and gang up on anyone who says otherwise. It's bad business.
I emailed the tech team about ad caching, it is sooo slow to load ads. I did a test with a page entirely driven with auctionads and one with amazon ads, and the auctionads site had more immediate bounces because of load times