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AuctionAds Question

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by nevetS, Aug 10, 2007.

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    When you go into your reports... The "Revenue" column - is that how much you earned, or the total cost of what you sold?
     
    nevetS, Aug 10, 2007 IP
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    racketboy Peon

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    #2
    How much you've earned.
     
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    It could even take a couple of days before revenue could show up. For ex: if a user clicks your link on Aug 1 but does make a purchase, but then a week later he makes a purchase or wins the auction, i think you get revenue on the day click was received.
     
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    nevetS Evolving Dragon

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    Yeah - that's exactly what happened. I'm just surprised at the revenue. Either someone bought something big, or several people won auctions and it added up quickly.
     
    nevetS, Aug 10, 2007 IP
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    C'mon! Tell us how much you earned that day!

    Don't be shy... We love success stories.
     
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    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    if a visitor that's eaten your AA cookie signs up for an eBay account you get something like $25.. maybe you got lucky (a few times?) ..
     
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    nevetS Evolving Dragon

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    That's what I thought, but no new user is indicated. We'll see how things go moving forward, but from what I gather my community is pretty active on e-bay anyways, so it could just be good timing. I've been running the ads for 5 days so far. Only one day has posted revenue (the third day), but the revenue is close to $30 on 18 clicks.

    The CTR is abysmal, but at the same time, page views are up and that could be because people were refreshing pages to see new ads. If it continues, I'll work on maximizing the revenue.

    I received a lot of feedback surrounding what keywords the visitors are interested in - it's good to get buy in from the existing community - especially on an area of the site that didn't have ads previously.
     
    nevetS, Aug 11, 2007 IP
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    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    Where are you looking to see that new users are indicated? i dont think the AA stats show this.. :confused:
     
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    the stats delay is why i don't bother checking stats everyday. just do it end of the week for me and gather up the info then.

    i've had issues with multiple auctionads running on a page where it just slooooows it down. cutting it down to 1 makes it faste.r
     
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    nevetS Evolving Dragon

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    I'm I-Framing the ads, which gets the page to display first and the ads flash on afterwards. I just started rotating commission junction ads along with it - seems to work out pretty well. Strangely, the effect doesn't work in IE, so I'm considering pulling AA out for IE people or caching the ads locally somehow.
     
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    is ctr dropped by huge in the past week?
     
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    Qryztufre Prominent Member

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    I check last weeks stats several times through monday & tuesday. Twice now I've earned money "last week" that I'd not have noticed otherwise.
     
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    Definitely. I guess I'm not the only one.
     
    racketboy, Aug 12, 2007 IP