I would like to place some ad in the left sidebar, auctionads has earned me $0 over the last two months (previous months I was earning about $50 a month) but so far I haven't found anything appropriate for my niche (computer hardware - monitors): My site is currently getting about 900 uniques a day. http://www.monitorsrc.com I've tried the following: Shopping.com - inflexible banner sizes, very poor customization, poor search - banners are too big to place anywhere. Tried the API but limited feature set for low traffic earners and poor search results resulting in ads being blank most of the time. Datafeedfile.com - this looked pretty sweet but too many bugs, rotation banners introduce a slight pause and lately have crashed firefox, merchant banners not showing up, some affiliates pending for several months. All around very unpolished. Chitika - so far this is working pretty well on my posts, but it's a bit too big to fit in my sidebar and I doubt anyone's going to click on offers there, plus I want chitika ads everywhere as they look pretty ugly. I can't seem to find anything else appropriate for my niche. There are a few others like shopzilla but I don't have anywhere near the required traffic to become an affiliate. Anyone know of any other good ad programs?
Sorry, lunarpages suspended my account yesterday for using too many resources (cpu usage / mysql usage / mem usage all way above the 1% limit). This is bloody crazy. I've got two wordpress blogs that barely amount to 3000 uniques a day. What a rip-off. Gotta switch to another hosting. Regarding AuctionAds, it's working fine for me on another website with another niche, just here in this niche it's not making me a cent.
Actually it's up now but it takes a very long time to load. Having support checking at the moment. *curse! x 5*
This could be why your clicks are so low - if a site doesn't come up right away I'm not staying around waiting for it to load or click on any of it's ads. If you manage to get the load time fixed why not change the title above the auction ads to something like "Monitor Specials" or something catchy. Also put auction ads within the articles, but instead of just generic auctionads, use keywords related to your article be displayed. Work on different placements and types of blending - if you have the traffic then AA should work great for you. I've only been running AA for a month and a half and already making $XXX.xx. If none of that works for you then I'd start looking for other affiliates or programs.
Thanks for your advice Woodie, I'll consider your advice. Placing them inside posts sounds good. Btw, the site taking long to load is because of a technical problem that I'm trying to fix, it's not normally like this.