How To Make Money With AuctionAds - An Idea

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I debated starting this myself but have too many other sites to maintain to devote the time this idea requires but after I did a tiny bit of research this could be a great way to make money using AuctionAds.

Let me be the first to tell you, when I first signed up for AuctionAds I thought it was shit. You have to send a ton of traffic for not very much money. Then a certain new product came out that everyone is going nuts over (think June 29th :xomunch: ) and I started promoting a site I had with that product and adsense. Adsense cpc was 10 cents and below, so I decided to try auctionads before completely writing them off. I sent 50k visitors and sat back to see what would happen... to my surprise, Auctionads started bringing in a lot of money, so I stayed with them and they've been a great consistent money maker. Remember the key though is to have a HIGH PRICED product.

So here's the idea: target one of the highest paying ebay items - cars. eBay charges $40 to list and $50 transaction fee (I think), so you'll be taking a % of $90 with the auctionads 100% payout.

Not bad at all for some of you guys with high traffic car enthusiast sites. I actually think a regular car site would do better with auctionads than a high performance car site b/c most cars on ebay are aimed at the everyday person. The difficulty will be how to target cities, but it's really not that hard to think outside the box and come up with a great marketing strategy for geo targeting.

If you don't currently have a car site, just get a domain, set up WP, write some good content (or have Cam do it) and then market the shit out of it. It'll probably make you more money than any other method to monetize a car site. Anyways, it's just an idea.
 


True. The niche makes the difference. The sites where I'm using it typically have products that sell on eBay for between about $300 to $2000, sometimes more, rarely less. My only problem has been it returning useless and unrelated items rather than my keyword ones, even when an eBay search shows well over 1000 of my target items.
 
Wouldn't someone have to actually buy a car on ebay though for the transaction to pay you?
 
I haven't used AuctionAds myself but let me just try and clear something up. So for listings in ebay in the cars category for example, anything anyone lists costs $40 to list and $50 for transaction? Is this for lower priced items like car parts as well? or just for actual cars being sold?

The reason I ask is that in order for you to get paid out, wouldn't someone need to actually buy a car through ebay? I'm sure plenty get sold there, but I would imagine it's not really a spur of the moment type thing which you would probably need for this to really pay off in the long run.

Seriously though, is there a link somewhere of all the ebay categories and what it costs to list in them and what the percentage fee they receive is?

Would be interesting to know...
 
We use the Ebay API for laptops, and it's amazing how fast the fees add up. It's been one of the most consistent revenue streams of anything we do.

I haven't tried AuctionAds, but after talking to Jeremy at ASE, I know he has some seriously cool stuff in the works that will probably make it pretty darn irresistible. ;)
 
I'm running an AuctionAds site targeted to nothing but higher priced items. At the moment I'm not sending any ppc traffic to it however, as I am spending ppc $$ elsewhere and want to build up enough natural traffic to it with link building for each niche.
 
bgmacaw said:
My only problem has been it returning useless and unrelated items rather than my keyword ones, even when an eBay search shows well over 1000 of my target items.
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That happens to me sometimes too and I'm not sure why. After refreshing the page, the ads are on target again, but I wish they were on-target from the start.
 
Maybe I'm just too hungover to be on WF right now, but the working example doesn't add up to me. This mystery product you speak of was not short-shipped to the retailers like the Wii was. Newspapers and other media outlets have been running stories about how everyone who bought multiple....products... (can we just say iPhone already?) in the hopes of selling them at a premium on eBay is shit out of luck. I'm not an auctionads user, but don't people have to make a purchase for you to get paid? Who the hell is gonna pay $100-200+ over the retail price when every local retailer has ample stock?

If I'm missing something here (like a fuckin chromosome perhaps), please enlighten me.
 
dogfighter said:
Maybe I'm just too hungover to be on WF right now, but the working example doesn't add up to me. This mystery product you speak of was not short-shipped to the retailers like the Wii was. Newspapers and other media outlets have been running stories about how everyone who bought multiple....products... (can we just say iPhone already?) in the hopes of selling them at a premium on eBay is shit out of luck. I'm not an auctionads user, but don't people have to make a purchase for you to get paid? Who the hell is gonna pay $100-200+ over the retail price when every local retailer has ample stock?

If I'm missing something here (like a fuckin chromosome perhaps), please enlighten me.
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Cell phones are still a major commodity on ebay, and tons of people buy phones from there every single day. AuctionAds also places a cookie on their computer, giving you a set amount of time. If they make a purchase within that period of time you get paid - easy as pie, and can be quite lucrative.

I have followed maximus' suggestion for a site and it's already made me $91 (for today) for an hours worth of work. Tell me that's not good ROI.
 
dogfighter said:
I'm not an auctionads user, but don't people have to make a purchase for you to get paid? Who the hell is gonna pay $100-200+ over the retail price when every local retailer has ample stock?
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You are correct, the clicker has to 'win' the auction or do a buy-it-now (if available) for you to get paid. It won't beat a good affliate offer targeted site but if your results match you page content in the right niches it will greatly outperform AdCents.

I think the niches to look for with Auction Ads are ones that consistantly stay at the top of the eBay HotList and are high priced or categories that regularly feature high priced, hard to find, collectable or discontinued items. The latter area is where I concentrating right now.

As for people buying items on eBay that they can buy for less locally, amazingly this happens all the time. People get caught up in the thrill of the auction and pay too much. Sometimes they can't be bothered to look around at stores. They think since they're buying it on eBay they're getting a great deal. Essentially, one of the easiest ways to extract profits from selling on eBay is to play on the buyer's greed, competitiveness and laziness.
 
yoink*gasp* said:
Cell phones are still a major commodity on ebay, and tons of people buy phones from there every single day. AuctionAds also places a cookie on their computer, giving you a set amount of time. If they make a purchase within that period of time you get paid - easy as pie, and can be quite lucrative.

I have followed maximus' suggestion for a site and it's already made me $91 (for today) for an hours worth of work. Tell me that's not good ROI.
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Oh, and Yoink is right... the key is that auctionads places the 30 day cookie. I've seen money come in days after high traffic.
 
Maybe the key is to setup a site in for a type of product, say cellphones like someone mentioned, but really go after ebay users to try and get them to click your ad. If it sets the 30 day cookie, and you could target people with an affinity to purchase via ebay, you'd really have a winning idea.

This is something I just thought of, but I wonder if you could setup ebay auctions yourself, selling something cheap, with links to your affiliate account with auction ads on it? I would imagine that anyone who clicks the link is very likely to make an ebay purchase within 30 days...
 
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