AuctionAds - A bit like eBay version of AdSense, great for monetising sites
In March of this year, well know Blogger and Internet Marketeer, Jeremy ”Shoemoney” Schoemaker launched AuctionAds. Its gone down very well in the USA and has 17,000 affiliates already and is reportedly paying out more than $500,000 a month in affiliate commissions. So with that in mind I thought I’d investigate it a bit and see if it was any use for us affiliates in the UK.
OK, so first of all ,what is AuctionAds?
Well the best way to describe it is like a kind of “eBay AdSense”. In that you simply cut and paste a bit of code into your website/blog and it will generate some ads relevant to the content of your site. The difference is that the ads will be of live auctions happening on eBay. OK, quite cool but not the most fantastic thing in the world.
Or am I dismissing it too quickly? I spent quite a lot of time over the weekend researching AuctionAds, and here is what I found:
1. Its is EASY to use. I actually timed (hey it was a quiet Sunday afternoon) and from signing up to getting an ad live took about 1 minute 20 seconds. Yes, I had an account and an ad live in less than a minute than a half. People may say this isn’t a big deal but one of the biggest reasons why I don’t sign up to every affiliate program I see is because of lengthy sign up and approval processes.
2. It is very customisable. Like AdSense you can choose the size of your ad and text colour etc. However, unlike AdSense you input the keyword that is most relevant to your site. A really simple idea that gives you 100% control of your ads.
3. 100% Commission. Yes you heard me, AuctionAds gives you, the affiliate 100% of the commission earned from eBay. They don’t take an over-rider. Awesome. Another great reason to promote eBay via AuctionAds is because they offer commission on 3 types of actions, a Winning Bid, a Buy-it-Now or a confirmed user registration. For full details of the commission structure see here.
4. Payment. No messing here, you are paid via PayPal the first of every month for commissions earned the previous month. It really is that easy, no more waiting 60 and 90 days with these guys.
5. Geotargetting. AuctionAds has relationships with all 15 eBay countries so your visitors will be sent to the relevant eBay country when they click on the ads.
6. Massive inventory. The sheer volume and depth of items for sale on eBay mean that even the most tiniest of niches will be catered for. So yes your cuckoo clock blog (see below) will show relevant ads!
7. Referral program. If a visitor clicks on one of your AuctionAds and then decides to sign up to the program then you earn 2% of that revenue generated by the user for 6 months. Again, cool.
8. Run it with Adsense or other ads. There are no silly Terms of Services to agree to saying that you can only display AuctionAds on your site and nobody else’s ads. Run it next to Adsense, its all good!
So, there are my top 8 reason why I think AuctionAds is really cool and will work on almost any site or blog in the UK. Here’s an example of it being put to really good use on a blog about USB gadgets. And here is a testimonial from the blog author.
There is also an official AuctionAds Blog and here is the Signup page. Please note that I was not paid, coerced, blackmailed or bribed to write this post. I just think its a really cool product for affiliates and that it deserves some exposure in the UK. That being said, all of my AuctionAds links are my affiliate links, if you would rather use a direct link then just type AuctionAds.com into your browser.
If anybody already runs AuctionAds on their site then please leave a comment below, I’d be really keen to hear your experiences.
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Original post by Kieron
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