Earn Money With Shopping Ads (Auction Ads)

By Raj | Sep 13, 2007

MediaWhiz, the owner of ReviewMe and Text Link Ads, took over AuctionAds from Shoemoney and publishers could see changes taking effect after the takeover. AuctionAds, the big eBay affiliate, has released a new, pleasing, more colorful, Web 2.0 ad format, like the ones that are running at the bottom of the posts on this blog.

AuctionAds is an ad program that lets you run ads of eBay auction listings. AuctionAds removes the guesswork of contextual advertising by allowing a blogger to specify the exact keywords when finding advertisements for his site while contextual advertising scans a web page for specific keywords and tries to match the results to relevant, prepaid advertisements. If a close match is not found, it will end up with ads not related to the content of your site/page. Contextual advertising does not always return the results a blogger would expect.

With AuctionAds, you decide the keywords to run the types of AuctionAds that you want, generate and insert the code at the location that you want the ads to appear on your site. When your site’s visitors click on an Auction Ad listing and take an action on eBay, you earn cash. Actions are defined as a winning bid, a buy-it-now or a confirmed user registration. AuctionAds is committed to paying out a minimum of 100% of eBay commission revenue. AuctionAds have even introduced the URL converter where you can turn any eBay link to an affiliate link. So, if you’re talking about anything on eBay (a search term, something you wish to buy etc.), you can turn them into affiliate links. AuctionAds is compatible with all other ad systems and you can run AuctionAds with contextual ads like Google AdSense.

The payment threshold is US $50, payable via PayPal every first of the month. The payment is for all revenue generated the previous month. There is no limit on how many ad units that can be run on a page. They have an affiliate program too. Here’s it in their own words: “There is no need to sign up for AuctionAds affiliate program because our affiliate program is built right into the ads you display! If a user clicks on the “Ads by AuctionAds” that is displayed and signs up for our service you earn a bonus 5% of all revenue generated by that user for the 6 months.”

Regarding support for international affiliates, this is what they say: “AuctionAds currently supports traffic from all countries in which eBay has a presence. Ad units currently only display ads in English, but all click traffic is geotargeted to the visitors’ country.

To clarify: At this time no ads are displayed from other countries’ eBay sites. When a non-US visitor clicks an ad, they are taken to a search page of items from the same keywords. As ad impression volume builds from specific countries, we will consider adding local ad display. Our statistics and testing shows that this converts extremely well for international users.”

What more? You can use the same Auction Ads account on as many sites as you want. You can use the flexibility of the campaign feature to keep track of statistics for different sites, or different areas of different sites. You can get started irrelevant of traffic statistics or Alexa ranking or PageRank or any such thing related to traffic pertaining to your blog.

AuctionAds, stablemate of Text Link Ads, is a sure shot way to earn money online.

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