Anyone making money with AuctionAds?

[swollenpickles]

Anyone making money with AuctionAds? I signed up about a week ago, and although have seen quite a few clicks (far more than adsense!) I haven't seen any of these convert yet. I'd be interested to hear from other people using Auction Ads to see 1. how you use the system, and 2. what sort of conversion rate you are getting. :bowdown:

 

[Gyppo]

I'm averaging about $150/week with it on 2 sites at the moment. Added it to test supplemental income but now it's outperforming Adsense on those sites buy about $150/month.

Clickthroughs seem to be in the 3-5% range however the niche isn't overly high paying so I'm not complaining

 

[smaxor]

I don't know much about it but it seems like it has it's place. Sounds like you could run a lot of spam traffic to it, where you'd get your account banned on adsense for the same thing.

 

[lerchmo]

ehh, I would think the ebay editor kit would convert better in most situations.. its more flexible and whatnot. but I guess auctionads is ok for a 2nd or 3rd income source on a site, though I really cant see it converting all that well on non targeted, non product type sites.

 

[ffblueocean]

I'm averaging about $150/week with it on 2 sites at the moment. Added it to test supplemental income but now it's outperforming Adsense on those sites buy about $150/month.

Clickthroughs seem to be in the 3-5% range however the niche isn't overly high paying so I'm not complaining

How long did it take to start converting? Adsense is same day; however I would venture a guess you need to wait 3 - 10 days for an auction to close?

 

[Gyppo]

Normally updates next day for me.

 

[Juicify]

I make small small amounts of people who I have refered, and small amounts from myself too (not getting much impressions or clicks). So sure it works.

 

[xboxundone]

CT for me is around 5% and due to fact you get 11.00 or 12.00 for every new ebay signup the payout can add up quickly. I have heard people had lots of clicks with little return. While others have good clicks and big return. I think irt really depends upon your niche and what items on ebay u are pushing. I reccomend atleast trying it.

 

[LazyHippy]

ehh, I would think the ebay editor kit would convert better in most situations.. its more flexible and whatnot. but I guess auctionads is ok for a 2nd or 3rd income source on a site, though I really cant see it converting all that well on non targeted, non product type sites.

I was thinking the same thing. Apart from the 65%/$22 commission level and Adsense-like formats are there any other benefits from AuctionAds?

The current lack of international support and the fact that over half the sites I see seem to be showing ipods & laptops - regardless of the nature of the site - puts me off using them. (I'm sure that is probably down to the marketers not the system though.)

Well done though to Shoemoney & co for creating AuctionAds - they must have a good system and a very close relationship with CJ to implement eBay's sub-publisher tracking requirements of having to have a unique PID per sub-affiliate. I guess eBay have also dropped their rule about not describing their marketplace as 'auctions'.

 

[webonline]

What what I gather auction ads isn't very good compared to traditional CPA programs and adsense or yahoo publisher. The problem is a creditcard or purchasing is ultimately required b4 you get paid. This results in smaller, inconsistent or nonexistent commissions for most people. I predict in a year auction ads will be deemed a failure. JMHO

 

[Gyppo]

The current lack of international support and the fact that over half the sites I see seem to be showing ipods & laptops - regardless of the nature of the site - puts me off using them. (I'm sure that is probably down to the marketers not the system though.)

Auctionads is geotargeted to send the user to the local version of ebay & also pulls results from there. You also get to "choose" which keywords you're targeting so those webmasters who are just targeting ipods are being lazy & not really focusing on what their users are after.