I was browsing a fellow DP'er website, because they were complaining about low click through rates and I was going to comment about ad positions. This is when I came across something weird. I thought maybe the person was rotating the advertisements with another advertiser, but upon further inspection the domain that is being used is one that is owned by google. (gmodule.com) I know about image ad's, swf ads, video ad's, and text ad's, *but* when I go to look up this type of ad blocks I didn't find anything on digitalpoint nor really the web about these ad blocks. I am thinking with the success of recent (AA) that they have decided to try it out? I wonder what the payout of it is then. Anyhow, you be the judge. Link to ad block directly Image of the ad block. It seems google is experimenting with ebay auction ad blocks. Is this old news or something new? I wonder what the payout of this is right now? If it is per click or if the person clicking win's the auction if we get a cut of the money earned or is it a commission on refferal's if the person joins ebay? Are they testing it out because of auctionads and the success they had with the whole ebay->ad's thing? Also, why is it coming from gmodule.com ? I did find one thread over the new ad blocks on ebay forums - Linkage Here I did some digging and came across a few more things that needs to be looked at. *Sidenote - http://www.idiom.com/~asah -> points to a google employee xml files. http://www.idiom.com/~asah/igp/160x600-ebay-v12.xml Found this in the xml file. <UserPref datatype="hidden" name="ebayUser" default_value="adsah"/> adsah ebay user name. http://myworld.ebay.com/adsah/ -> Is this the person that is getting the credit? I think this is the guy working upon it. All comments, questions, and everything else welcomed in this thread. .
what it could be is that adsensense publishers have an option to select whether to show public service ads or not when proper ads are not available. if someone doesn;t wanna show public service ad, then the person can chose to have other ads delivered on the site give adsense the location/url of the ad to be displayed. so when needed, adsense puls the alternative ad from the URL provided and displayed instead of public service ad. could be that. however, the pointing to google employee xml site is confusing. how did you figure that out that it points to google employee xml site?
Looks like a closed experiment from Google again.A good find indeed.Well I a few months before I read a news story on this
urbanread: That article you linked to is something over Google Talk and Skype with ebay acting as one. Nothing really about Auction Ads type of ad blocks is mentioned and if it is closed then why would it be live on that site?