Auction Ads = 100% ctr

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Aequitas said:
haha good job,

This is the exact type of site I put up for AuctionAds when they first came out. You CTR is high and you can make some money but you'll never be able to rank for anything so your left with PPC or other ways to drive traffic.
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Did you have success with PPC?
 


Given the Auction Ads cookie is for 30 days, I think PPC would work quite well (given a low CPC) because even though the person might not buy the product you have advertised, if they make any transaction with ebay within that 30 day window, you will get paid.
 
Yes, I tried the same thing before, the only thing was that you have to get a decent amount of traffic, like a visitor every 5 minutes if you want the ads to stay relevent to your chosen keywords, otherwise you will get a bunch of ipod ads and your visitors will be like WTF
 
What do you mean?

Auction Ads will show ads based on the keywords that are passed to it in the Javascript so I don't know what difference it would make what keywords you use for your PPC campaigns.
 
daled1 said:
Yes, I tried the same thing before, the only thing was that you have to get a decent amount of traffic, like a visitor every 5 minutes if you want the ads to stay relevent to your chosen keywords, otherwise you will get a bunch of ipod ads and your visitors will be like WTF
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Yeah, I figured...so some of my pages target ipods...yet when you target ipods most of your ads are crap.
 
Thanks for the idea.

Does AA pay for new bidder acquisitions? That's where the $$ are.
 
swede said:
Thanks for the idea.

Does AA pay for new bidder acquisitions? That's where the $$ are.
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I'm pretty sure they pay for that as well.

All my ppc traffic has at least clicked an ad so far :) Of course I'm not throwing much traffic at them, yet.
 
am1r said:
What do you mean?

Auction Ads will show ads based on the keywords that are passed to it in the Javascript so I don't know what difference it would make what keywords you use for your PPC campaigns.
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They only show ads based on the keywords if you have a visitor within every 5 minutes because of how their cache system works.

I switched over to using the ebay editor kit to show ads, but the ad images are real low res.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the cookie only 30days if it's someone new the registers and only 7days for current ebay memebers?

Also, auctions with hot women in their pics net the highest CTR if you target males on you PPC campaigns. It also works awesome for digg.
 
ive been doing this, lemme give you a hot tip, dont do the 24hr rule to see if its successful, AuctionAds takes along time to show if your earning money cause cunts have to bid and win and shit.

give it a week at least. or run the PPC for 48hrs and check AA stats for the next week - if your a cheap cunt and starting out
 
pax said:
ive been doing this, lemme give you a hot tip, dont do the 24hr rule to see if its successful, AuctionAds takes along time to show if your earning money cause cunts have to bid and win and shit.

give it a week at least. or run the PPC for 48hrs and check AA stats for the next week - if your a cheap cunt and starting out
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dur...

Good info for AA noobs I suppose
 
Shame about the caching, it'd be quite nice to dynamically insert ppc keywords into the auctionads.

Think I might try this for domain parking - gotta be better than Sedo.
 
chatmasta said:
Did you have success with PPC?
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Yeah I've had success with PPC and AuctionAds, its just like doing Arbitrage but much much much easier to get a conversion.

am1r said:
I don't know what difference it would make what keywords you use for your PPC campaigns.
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WRONG,

You need more creativity, you can dynamically generate your AuctionAds keywords based upon a variable, you set the variable to whatever your using inside of your Adwords Campaign, Track where each click came from (The keyword that is) and insert it into your auction ads keywords.

So it doesn't matter if the searcher/buyer typed in big cars and clicked on your adwords ad then your auction ads ad would automatically be set to show big car ads, so on and so forth with each and every keyword.
 
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Aequitas said:
Yeah I've had success with PPC and AuctionAds, its just like doing Arbitrage but much much much easier to get a conversion.



WRONG,

You need more creativity, you can dynamically generate your AuctionAds keywords based upon a variable, you set the variable to whatever your using inside of your Adwords Campaign, Track where each click came from (The keyword that is) and insert it into your auction ads keywords.

So it doesn't matter if the searcher/buyer typed in big cars and clicked on your adwords ad then your auction ads ad would automatically be set to show big car ads, so on and so forth with each and every keyword.
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When you do this, does it get around the problem of the cache not showing relevant ads?

It seems like if your user typed in "big red cars" in google, and clicked on your ad where it was dynamically inserted in your auctionads, and if no one made a similiar search recently, you would get an irrelevant ad.
 
chatmasta said:
Did you have success with PPC?
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daled1 said:
When you do this, does it get around the problem of the cache not showing relevant ads?

It seems like if your user typed in "big red cars" in google, and clicked on your ad where it was dynamically inserted in your auctionads, and if no one made a similiar search recently, you would get an irrelevant ad.
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No if you pull the keyword they came from and insert it into the auction ads keyword script before the page loads then your ads will be fully relevant based upon what the user typed in to Googles search but there are always times where the auction ads won't have anything to display based upon the type of keyword that was used.

Oh yeah and here is an example of one of those close to 100% CTR sites I'm using......took a whole 5 minutes to set up, this site is not dynamically generating the keywords if your wondering.
 
I've had trouble with this, when I opened a new session in my browser (both IE and Firefox), it wouldn't show the relavant ads. So, I put the following code right before the <html> tag:

<?php
if ($_GET['r'] == '') {
header('Location: /?r=yes');
}
?>


This seems to solve the problem.
 
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Just and update to this, I currently have a 93% CTR on my main PPC site but no profit yet. The volume for my niche on 7search simply isn't there.
 
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