Yeah I bet, I'm already making decent money from AA - could only guess how much more if this mod worked. Looking over at vb.org it seems it's working for some and not for others. In the meantime I'll continue to place them in high traffic areas.
Its Working fine for me on 5 of my forums, and all of my vBFAQ moderators' forums as well. Most of the time when it doesnt work its because someone is trying to use it other then intended or not setting it up correctly.
Other then one day where I'll swear that the ; and , separators were swapped I'll back that statement up 110% as I got 100 impressions last week (yes, all week) and all of my ads, were, for the better part on topic every time I happened across them. Now, that's not counting when the actual system has gone bonkers, which it did for like a week or so by most accounts. Though many times when I saw someone complain I checked and found my ads to be on key and functioning properly. (Unlike my AdSence which is taking the context from my URL rather my content ~ contextual ads my ass)
Anybody else notice an increase in CTR the last few days? Mine is close to what it was before things got all jacked up starting in mid-July. If they have it fixed then that's a good thing. Taking almost two months to fix it, well... If it's really fixed I might roll it out again across my network, although I've been doing pretty good with ebay/CJ. I might do some split testing and see which performs better. Anybody else done that and have good apples-to-apples comparison data?
I'm the opposite, the last two months things were normal, now they're wrong again After 8 days, the same quantity of traffic and no clicks! Which i know it's impossible! I'll give them one more week, if this don't get fixed, i'll turn everything to CJ/EBAY, i cannot afford loosing money.
Keep in mind - this past weekend was a holiday weekend here in the US. My numbers are off as well, but I expected it.
Good news - got my first revenue logged for over a month. Bad news - it looks like a bug - I earned $0.922 and it doesn't show up in the reports at all.
I don't know what's going on. I keep having the .01% CTR but revenue still shows up. Working stats would be great.
MW is spending time doing the wrong things. I joined at the start so I know how AA worked until mid-July. AA reporting is still busted and needs to be fixed ASAP. My deadline is the end of this month. I am tired of clicks and no revenue - or, revenue and no clicks. Not to mention, outages and webkinz ads. The high season is coming and I need a network that works.
Is there anything better than AA right now? I only use the option to direct link to a specific auction on ebay.
Yeah. The payout minimum is now $50. What sleazebags, blowing smoke up our butts with all this feel good news while slipping in that little gem without a mention. The ethical and legal thing to do is inform publishers of any changes in terms when they come into effect.
Throughout most of this mess I've been saying "well, I have nearly no impressions but my ads have been right on". Well, today I'm taking that back, as I've recently been the first person to visit a few of my pages. It takes several moments to update the cache, so you are getting off-topic impressions for the first view and for several moments after that. That can be the difference between a sale and no sale, and for the tiny publisher that means a lot.
I was thinking for a moment about flipping the switch and running AA across my network again. But after this little gem plus that attempted slight of hand with the $25 bump the other thread is discussing I'll leave them off. I have one affiliate signed up under me. I assume the stats labelled <none> are his since I don't have any AA installed without campaign names. So as long as he keeps running AA I can look forward to viewing his stats - he's currently getting a 0.18% CTR...LOL
i know this is slighty off topic but does anyone know how to make AA full page? i'm sure i saw them as the main content on someone's site the other day but i don't have that option in their ad sizes.
Yeah, I think that's a bit OT There is no limit to the number of ads allowed on a page. So simply stack them...
Did you not see this blog post? http://www.auctionads.com/blog/free-2500-auctionads-bonus-for-new-publishers/
That's the issue. They're raising the payout threshold, and they announce it on the public blog, not by email notification to their publishers. I realize people love blogs and read them all day, but one can not honestly expect blog posts to be the primary means of communication for a business between it's clients/suppliers. Then they complain that we post in public forums discussing the program. When if people didn't post, many wouldn't even know because they do not read the blog daily.