My stats so far: 9 days running, 33,600 impressions, 420 clicks (1.25%), $2.06 in earnings. My snowball is still very small. For me I don't see it taking much away from my other earnings - no significant changes in stats for my other stuff. So for me it is ok to let it run for a while. I really like the ads. I just hope visitors start to win some auctions.
It is very attractive to click on the ads, unlike any other. I think one needs to give it 3 month before making any conclusion, at least this is my stance toward it.
wow thats a heck of a conversation rate Gotta tell the ads look good though, but it seems "ugly sells" better
On my site it's replacing an affiliation with a poster website which got lots of CTR's and resulted in ..... $0.00 over months!!!! So, AA isn't taking up space in a way that's costing me money. It can stay a while. It has just launched we have to give it a change.
I can't afford to loose three months worth of revenue on ANY of my sites just to test out a new system, that just doesn't seem wise to me at all.
I would try to find somewhere to put it where it won't cost you lost revenue but still get some clicks and then let it incubate for a while.
You all must remember one important thing. AuctionAds is CPA (PPA) Cost Per Action. Google is experimenting CPA in Adwords, and the future tell us that PPC (Pay Per Click) that we use at adsense, will finish soon or later. AuctionAds is a good experience to see what will happen to most of the sites. For me if PPC dies, many small sites, will loose almost 80% of their revenue online. I know many small good sites, very good sites, that are doing ok with cpc (well $100 for them is ok). Some of them tried cpa, and the results are horrible. People continue to click, but then they don’t convert. CPA only works in certain niches. One thing is a site about a niche for instance fishing, other thing is a site about buy fishing add-ons (where CPA could result). A site could be awesome, but if the niche is not the right one for actions (and remember that most of the actions is buy a product), cpa will totally fail. cpc, even in the most strange niche allways give some bucks. Only the big traffic sites, and i mean BIG really BIG, will survive and will win much more money.
Can you give a URL where this is occuring? As well as the country you're located in if non-US. eBay statistics show conclusively that search listings convert significantly better than individual item listings. I thought everyone wanted to make the most money possible...
I just tested it and it's working again. I'm in Belgium. I guess I should hold my trap closed. Of course you guys did tons of research so I'm in no position to comment on the converting. It's just, as a user, I would expect to go to the object I clicked on instead of a list with 1718 objects in which I have to go find that object again. The cheer numbers will scare away most potential buyers.
Its funny. I have heard that comment many, many times. And yet the evidence shows that users almost never buy what they came to eBay on. I can show you examples of the crazy things people buy that are completely unrelated to the keywords or item they came in on. This is on eBay in general, not AA specifically.
I'm sure your right, it's like with the example of the Mercedes earlier in this post. Anyway, I'm keeping AA online, I'm very interested to see if it will convert for me or not and being a small website I would very stupid to dismiss it after a few days. The results are in the numbers...
Think I'm going to remove these. After 2 weeks there is no snowball effect and I only seem to have made some money on people buying other products that the ones I am targetting, i.e. $1-$2 most days for Xbox 360 games and then I made $37 one day for something else. Way too inconsistent
The fact that impressions/clicks STILL aren't tracking correctly is really starting to bother me. How do I know I'm actually getting credit when I am supposed to?
i made by first $.16 via auctionads today. 28 clicks outta 1248 views. 2.2% rate, just running on side of our page. interesting....
Pamon - Thats great to see someones offers converting! 2,2% conversion rate, awesome. I'm sending a little bit of traffic.. sent hundreds, still hoping on those first few cents