Ebay Auction Ads

[nielsencl]

I've been using Auction Ads for about three months now and have added them to most of my sites. I even built a site around them to help people find things at Ebay. You can see the site at www.EbayAuctionAds.com.

They are small text ads that also have images of the auction items. If you have every placed images near text ads you know how effective that can be! They also give you more control over what ads are shown on your site by letting YOU pick the keywords. You can do some testing on my site, the AA site, or even on ebay to see what comes up that matches your site well, and then use those keywords in the ads. They just added a bid range filter option so you can avoid showing ads for expensive cars if you have a toy site, and not show toys if you have a used car site.

The filter also helps to "refine" the keyword results. I was trying to show ads for computer servers, but when I used the word "servers" I got some other things like "cake servers". I put in that the minimum price was $500 and that let me just show what I wanted.

If you want to try them for yourself there are links on the site that will let you do that. If you have any questions, please ask.

[daniel]

Thanks for sharing. I have never tried autionads, how do you find the CTR vs adsense?

[nielsencl]

I have it running on a lot of different sites, and the CTR is about 1%, but the sites also have AdSense running. I just tried to see if I could get a report of all the clicks and revenue for a single day, but they don't show you that, only daily totals.

The thing to remember about Auction Ads is that it's not a PPC, but an extension of the ebay affiliate program. This means you can get some lump sums for new ebay sign-ups, as well as sending someone that buys something on ebay. Daily income this month has ranged from $0 to $52, and it's not uncommon to see past days suddenly get an increased amount. I think this is due to people not buying things right away or the payment/commission process taking some time.

When I started it was about mid-month and I earned $40. Last month was $81 and I'm at $77 so far this month. I'm showing about 11k ads per day.

[daniel]

Thanks for the details. People often forget about the ebay affiliate program, myself included.. I recently added it to a few RSS feeds
via Commission Junction. I will test it out for a bit on a few niche sites
we run.

Best Regards -
Dan

[charley]

I will test it out for a bit on a few niche sites

I have added a few adult sites.