Ok, so I gave it a shot. I put it on one of my niche antique pottery sites. After 4 days: $0.64 Impressions:9779 Clicks: 131 Referrals: 0 I can't say I am impressed... I make more than that per click with "other" affiliate/PPC programs.. I will have to give this some time.
Anyone else seeing ads that don't match the keywords? I'm getting ads for purses and nintendo crap for periods of time on some of my pages even though there are hundreds or thousands of auctions on ebay matching my motorcycle related keywords.
Nah, the key words seem to work just fine.. What are you using? If it's something really general or a series of words, that could be part of the problem.
Yeah, Im totally having that problem. Sometimes when i refresh the page it corrects itself. I've been trying to figure it out since I haven't heard from support yet and it seems to happen when the keyword isn't super popular, like less than 20,000 searches in the Get Code tool on the auctionads site. I also have put it on a new site, and there is something in the FAQ about low traffic sites not getting the right targeting but I don't understand why that would be,how that's defined or how we could overcome that. Anyone?
Whenever I go into my panel, and choose what keywords I want to display it's comming up 0 results, when "britney spears" has like thousands of results.... Anyone else having this issue?
Wondering how long does the cookie set up for. (Is it 30 days too as they have it on CJ?)Or do we lose credit if someone click on the AD, look at it, close the browser, come back later and did a search on eBay later? Seems like that's the case. It will be great if they set the cookie for 30 days or so I guess.
Well... the thing is, not only they have to click on the link, has the mind to buy something, and they have to win that auction in order for you to get your commission. If you are not desparated about the product, you might just been out bidded and don't event bother to replace a new bid. I can see thought, the longer you are in AA, the more likely you will make your money because someone might buy something "pricy" that is totally not related to your niche. All was because he/she was on your site couple days ago and got interested in something else.
That's whay I'm hoping. I had a health related post and an ad for a clinic showed up with an asking price of $500,000. I want that commission.
What happens when a few hours later that same user goes back to eBay via someone else auctionads? Does the cookie get replaced so that the latest affiliate gets the commission if the user does something. (that's what I think happens), just out of curiosity.
I believe so... I kinda lost with where does auctionad pull there info from. eBay or eBay's affiliate program from CJ
At the moment I'm getting all kinds of stuffed animals. Not quite what I was expecting. This morning it was OK though, so I guess it will correct itself.
Yes, exactly. Cookies are overwritten. When a bid is made with your cookie, it is set...if that is the winning bid. I'm not sure what happens if the bidder makes the first bid on your cookie then a follow-up bid on someone else's. Good luck, Ty
they go through CJ, you can tell this because there blog post recently announced a problem with CJ's tracking so stats wouldn't be updated