Is Auction Ads even alive, at all? So after I put the code on a few hundred pages (after I said I wouldn’t), I noticed a bunch of “features” on the AuctionAd site site don’t work. Their Blog is down, and a bunch of links just 404…. Damn, I think I did it all for nothing…

Anybody? Is this a scam? Has ANYBODY been paid? Even one person?

1). Easy to ad the code to the page
2). Opens in a new window so users don’t lose my page
3). Doesn’t send users to my competitors (Adsense)
4). Not having to worry about getting Google Bombed
5). $25 per ebay sign-up, purchase within 30 days. You kiddin’ me?

I’m a hopin’ this works… Looks like a great alternative to Adbrite and Adsense

I’ll report in a few weeks – The Jury’s Out (but feelin’ good)

1). Relevent content auction items
2). Loads quick
3). Meets W3C
4). Enhances my page to the user
5). Adds to page views, due to changing items on refresh

Now, let’s see if it can make any money before I start writing the script into a hundred pages….

Imagine my surprise when I decided to take a look at my stats and actually found that I was eligible to get a payment this month!

Now I will check my stats more often!

I am due a payment this month and I even emailed them to make sure. So I’m looking for my payment now.

I also see that you mention that the minimum to get a payment is $10. I thought it was $50?

http://www.crawlingthenet.com

I think making your advertrange small will benefit you here, i currently use 6 words related to my dance music website “dj, headphones, speakers, walkman,ipod,dj decks”.

The only downer is that the click does not lead to the product shown but what keywords your using in your advertising in an ebay search. I hope this can be changed in the near future!

It’s a nice extra for me and surely for technology related sites this is a way to make lots of extra income as the items sold in that category often are way higher priced than in the entertainment sector.

Without this article though, I can say that I probably wouldn’t even be giving it a try.

The AuctionAd format was very intuitive, quick and simple, even simpler than AdSense. I would have liked to have a few more choices of format because the ones they offer have a big size gap and even the big ones don’t seem to pack very many items in the ad box. Here’s an example: (http://toyinstructions.wikispaces.com/g . You can clearly see the ads could be better served; they have to be in that main content pane in order to be page-specific (a wiki constraint) but I could certainly use more options when setting it up. Could be a dealbreaker as having a professional-looking site is important to me.

Not for any of my blogs, but I can see the niche where it may work.

Looks like it could be a good alternative though – surely the visual aspect must have an advantage over ordinary textual ads. The downside is that product links are maybe too specific, i.e. if the customer is not interested in the specific item, you may not get an action. On the other hand, as we all know, people often browse after clicking and end up buying other stuff.

In terms of the front-end appearance to the visitor, I don’t see much of a difference between this and the old Amazon product links etc… Remains to be seen how effective this will be…