Auction Ads = 100% ctr

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One thing I do which you guys might want to try is pulling the RSS feed from eBay, parsing the URLs and putting the AuctionAds URL (with your ID and channel ID, etc) in front. You retain the descriptions and images from the feed but users who click on them go via AA. This gives me a lot more flexibility on what I show (you can target based on eBay category) and would, I suspect, get around the caching problem you have highlighted above with the generic AA ads.
 
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am1r said:
One thing I do which you guys might want to try is pulling the RSS feed from eBay, parsing the URLs and putting the AuctionAds URL (with your ID and channel ID, etc) in front. You retain the descriptions and images from the feed but users who click on them go via AA. This gives me a lot more flexibility on what I show (you can target based on eBay category) and would, I suspect, get around the caching problem you have highlighted above with the generic AA ads.
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hi guys.new here...
am1r's rss idea is great...
is there another way to face that "irrelevant ads" problem?
Although it seems it has to do with caching...
auctionads wants to provide with you with ads within a certain amount of time,even if it hasn't completed ebay's server query..
 
Do you think 7search would work for a site like this? I feel like you could probably get a lot of ctr with 7search but I dont know how many will actually convert? I guess like everything else "you just have to test it"
 
lawman said:
hi guys.new here...
am1r's rss idea is great...
is there another way to face that "irrelevant ads" problem?
Although it seems it has to do with caching...
auctionads wants to provide with you with ads within a certain amount of time,even if it hasn't completed ebay's server query..
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I tweaked usabn's suggestion to make it work with dynamic keywords and it worked with about 15-20 random topics off the top of my head (ie: runescape, cows, etc). Sorry if this is blatantly obvious to some people, I'm fairly new to PHP.

Code: 
<?php
$keyword = $_GET['var'];
echo($var);
if ($_GET['r'] == '') {
header('Location: /?var='.$keyword.'&r=yes');
}
?>
<html>

<?php
$var = $_GET['var'];
echo($var);
?>
<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
auctionads_ad_client = "your client id";
auctionads_ad_campaign = "";
auctionads_ad_width = "250";
auctionads_ad_height = "250";
<?php echo("auctionads_ad_kw = \"".$var."\";\n"); ?>
auctionads_color_border =  "CFF8A3";
auctionads_color_bg =  "FFFFFF";
auctionads_color_heading =  "00A0E2";
auctionads_color_text =  "000000";
auctionads_color_link =  "008000";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ads.auctionads.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
 
Regarding PPC traffic to your auctionads sites...from what I am reading you guys are adding in an unnecessary step, and losing out on commissions. Basically you guys are doing:

1) User click your PPC ad for red widgets and land on your site with auctionads, which shows red widget auctions
2) User clicks on an auctionad for a red widget
3) User either signs up and becomes "active" or makes a bid or BIN
4) You get commission from auctionads

When you SHOULD be doing:

1) User clicks your PPC ad for red widget, and lands ON EBAY'S site showing red widgets
2) User either signs up and becomes "active" or makes a bid or BIN
3) You get commission from COMMISSION JUNCTION, because that is where ebay is an affilate with

AuctionAds appears to simply be a middleman. eBay uses commission junction (Commission Junction - A global leader in the online advertising channels of affiliate marketing and managed search.) for their affiliate program. You should be signed up at commission junction and be an affiliate with ebay, not get paid through auctionads.
 
lschmidt said:
Regarding PPC traffic to your auctionads sites...from what I am reading you guys are adding in an unnecessary step, and losing out on commissions. Basically you guys are doing:

1) User click your PPC ad for red widgets and land on your site with auctionads, which shows red widget auctions
2) User clicks on an auctionad for a red widget
3) User either signs up and becomes "active" or makes a bid or BIN
4) You get commission from auctionads

When you SHOULD be doing:

1) User clicks your PPC ad for red widget, and lands ON EBAY'S site showing red widgets
2) User either signs up and becomes "active" or makes a bid or BIN
3) You get commission from COMMISSION JUNCTION, because that is where ebay is an affilate with

AuctionAds appears to simply be a middleman. eBay uses commission junction (Commission Junction - A global leader in the online advertising channels of affiliate marketing and managed search.) for their affiliate program. You should be signed up at commission junction and be an affiliate with ebay, not get paid through auctionads.
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Its against the eBay TOS now to send PPC traffic directly to them. As for commissions from CJ, good luck getting in the top tier.
 
FYI to everyone. When I used to do something similar with a video game niche it took about two weeks for profits to start coming in. I don't know why AA has such a prolonged "snowball" effect. I didn't even make most of my money until the 3-4 week mark. Really sucks for testing, but it was nice in the end. Before AA I did the same with simple ebay aff tools and the results were immediate, but less profit in the end.

Other downsides. I hate not knowing where my money is coming from in AuctionAds. In CJ you can see how many leads you're generating. How many leads are active vs pending (i.e. they haven't bid on anything yet so you don't get your $12). Some niches are great for leads and not so great for "profit sharing". And vice versa. If you're listening out there Shoemoney (google vanity filter cough cough) ad these stats for some much needed reassurance.

Also since I don't know nuttin about php, I was having some "ad relevancy" issues and anal ass AdCenter pulled all my campaigns. They have called me every few days for almost a month now to see why I stopped giving them money.
 
I think it's to do with cookies and also because you earn when your customer is the winning bidder. Now some auctions last 10 days I think so that makes things delayed there.
 
Sorry if it sounds stupid, but... how do you pull an RSS feed from ebay?

Ebay has a lot of tools for their affiliates, but I was not accepted to their program because I'm a foreign webmaster, so Auction ads are a great way to access ebay affiliate program.

Sadly, I couldn't find any RSS link at ebay.

Anybody can help me?

Thanks!
 
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spoonitnow said:
I tweaked usabn's suggestion to make it work with dynamic keywords and it worked with about 15-20 random topics off the top of my head (ie: runescape, cows, etc). Sorry if this is blatantly obvious to some people, I'm fairly new to PHP.

Code: 
<?php
$keyword = htmlentites($_GET['var']);
echo($var);
if ($_GET['r'] == '') {
header('Location: /?var='.$keyword.'&r=yes');
}
?>
<html>

<?php
$var = htmlentites($_GET['var']);
echo($var);
?>
<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
auctionads_ad_client = "your client id";
auctionads_ad_campaign = "";
auctionads_ad_width = "250";
auctionads_ad_height = "250";
<?php echo("auctionads_ad_kw = \"".$var."\";\n"); ?>
auctionads_color_border =  "CFF8A3";
auctionads_color_bg =  "FFFFFF";
auctionads_color_heading =  "00A0E2";
auctionads_color_text =  "000000";
auctionads_color_link =  "008000";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ads.auctionads.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
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$var_goes_on_page = htmlentites($input)
$var_goes_in_db = mysql_real_escape_string($input)
$var_goes_in_url = urlencode($input)

don't forget also to use these when storing all your $_SERVER vars too, many a coder forgets those $_SERVER bits can be pretty darn evil.
 
I've been sorely disappointed with AuctionAds so far. I've tried it on several sites and in a month I'm not going to break any banks with my piddly .60 cents.

Sure hope others are doing better than I am
 
Kinda related, and maybe useful to someone...

In wordpress you can just use

Code: 
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

eg:

Code: 
auctionads_ad_width = "160";
auctionads_ad_height = "600";
auctionads_ad_kw =  "<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>";
auctionads_color_border =  "beceff";
auctionads_color_bg =  "beceff";
auctionads_color_heading =  "2b489b";

That will just use your blog title as the AuctionAds keywords. I'm sure you lose SEO benefits doing this (as your title has to be fairly short), but it makes it very quick to setup and duplicate. Works well with mu.
 
mudger said:
so has anyone made a dime doing this?
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I tried to monetize a solar energy blog. So the ads were in the sidebar, not an fpa like you guys were showing.

I had over 600 impressions, and about 7 clicks, and I made .08 ... so no, I haven't made a dime. :sleep:

I still think it should work, but it's not. Maybe my surfers are just looking for info and not buying.

Back to Adsense.
 
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