Google may have plans to take on advertising programs like AuctionAds, Chitika or WidgetBucks that have become quite popular alternatives to AdSense ads.That’s evident from an AdWords campaign current up on Google that is also contextual and displays live products prices fetched directly from eBay auctions. Here are some screenshots of these new and dynamic AdSense ads (click to enlarge):To see
January 8th AuctionAds and ShoppingAds products have merged into one product that will be located at ShoppingAds is a hybrid product that serves both CPA (cost per action) ads provided by eBay and CPC (cost per click) ads provided by our shopping comparison engine partners. For existing AuctionAds users the only change you will see is the “Ads By AuctionAds” displayed on your ads will change to “Ads By ShoppingAds”. The other significant change is the ability for you to become a Premium Publisher. By becoming a premium publisher you will have the opportunity to be paid on a CPC (cost per click) basis for all your US and Canadian traffic while you can monetize your international traffic on a CPA (cost per action) basis. Standard publisher’s traffic will be monetized 100% on a CP
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Hello Fellow Reader,
I just got a message from AuctionAds Owner:
Pedro, as a previous user of AuctionAds I wanted to send you a private invite to our new ShoppingAds product! ShoppingAds is a cost per click ad product powered by the major shopping comparison sites.
Now you are probably wanting to email me right back and ask, “Why should I try ShoppingAds when I had such hit and miss success with AuctionAds?” The answer is because ShoppingAds is a cost per click product with predictable earnings. So you send the traffic and get paid for every click! AuctionAds is a CPA (cost per action) product so earnings were very unpredictable for many publishers. Also, ShoppingAds is built on a very stable platform and the ads are serving lightning fast!
Our current users are seeing CPC’s in the $.25 range on average and we think we can deliver a great return for your site. We are ready for you to start running the ads and we offer full international traffic support.
Why do people use AuctionAds and WidgetBucks on their sites? I personally do not use any services which display auction products, why? because they don’t work. How do I know this? Well, I would not buy a product advertised on someone else’s site, even if it had ‘best price’ all over it. The top three reasons why I would not and people would not want to buy products.
It involves me having to go through a checkout process, some are long and complicated.
My credit may or may not be maxed out already.
I just cant’t be bothered.
I am not specifically looking for products at the site I am on.
I have to this date not bought an actual material product online.
The probability of someone clicking on an AuctionAd or WidgetBuck ad and going to buy the product is much less than the probability of someone clicking on a PayPerClick ad or another affiliate program ad. The fact of the matter is that people are reluctant to spend money.
Look at the bigger picture…h
Free $25.00 AuctionAds Bonus For New Publishers!Filed under: News, New Feature, AuctionAds — admin @ 9:50 amAuctionAds Publishers,AuctionAds Publishers, we have a great way for you to promote AuctionAds and earn 5% affiliate referrals. Spread the word (using your affiliate link) that we are offering an instant $25.00 balance to all new publishers who sign up for AuctionAds! New publishers just need to sign up and they will receive a balance of $25.00 automatically.Please note if you signed up with us previously and have never earned a payout we will bump your current balance to $25 too! Our minimum payout is also being raised to $50 but everyone who hasn’t earned a payout to date will be halfway there already! By publicizing this promotion on your blog using your affiliate link you can take advantage of receiving 5% of all revenue generated by new AA publishers you refer for a full six months. Thanks again and look for more AA news soon.The AuctionAds blog is the official news sour
Hello Fellow Reader,
Auction Ads is now paying $25 Sign Up bonus for new publishers and also raised the affiliate referral commission to 5%…
The reason they are doing this is that they want the members to spread the word about their site!
Since, Shoemoney sold AuctionAds to the new owner, the service is working better and improvements are being made, so join now and test it, get your Free $25, blog and review AuctionAds so that your friends can also get the $25…
To join AuctionAds just Click Here!
With Success
Pedro Sardinha
AuctionAds announced 6 days ago that they are offering an instant $25 balance to all new publisher who sign up with them. All you have to do is to sign up with them now and the $25 balance will automatically credit to your account. However in addition to that, the minimum amount for the payout is also being raised to $50 which means the publisher need to work on another $25 in order to received the full minimum $50 payout. Surely you need to at least have a blog in order to be a publisher, but trust me it's not hard to be a blogger, you'll eventually improved yourself in knowledge and writing skills that's for sure. So when you're ready to be a publisher make sure to sign up with AuctionAds.AuctionAds: Increase the bid on your site's income!
Sebuah tawaran mendulang dolar dari pemasangan iklan di blog kembali muncul. Kali ini tak sekedar memasang iklan namun ditambah iming-iming kredit $25.00 secara langsung apabila kita mendaftar di bulan ini.
Insentif ini sengaja dibagikan untuk membagi kebahagiaan dari pihak AuctionAds selaku penyandang layanan lelang secara online atas keberhasilnya menjadi bagian keluarga besar Text Link Ads
AuctionAds recently announced here that they are offering instant $25.00 balance to all new publisher sign ups for AuctionAds. New publishers just need to sign up and they will receive a balance of $25.00 automatically.
Few days back, it was $5.00 and it’s just 5 fold increase in their joining bonus. Also for the existing publishers who have not received any payout from AuctionAds before, will also have their current balance bumped up to $25.00
The sad part is their minimum payout is also being raised to $50 but then it’s give and take. At least you have covered the half journey.
On a negative part, I don’t understand how it helps to increase their earnings to $25.00, motivation? If they could not get a payout of $10 when it was free $5.00, would they make $25 more to take away total of $50.00??
Again, I would prefer AuctionAds to first fix the problem in “Reporting clicks and impressions” than pulling more publishers in the system. On a positive note, the
Auction Ads has just announced a $25 USD Bonus for all new Publishers. New publishers just need to sign up and they will receive a balance of $25.00 automatically. So start your money making journey straight away with 25 $ in your account.
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All publishers who haven’t received any payout till date will also get $25 bumped into their accounts!
Cheers!
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Auction Ads second income stream is getting a share from the revenues generated by your referred publishers. Auction Ads has announced today that they have a raise in their affiliate payouts. You will receive 5% of all revenue produced from publishers you refer with your affiliate link to AuctionAds for the first 6 months of the new publisher’s earnings!
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Since August 27, 2007 AuctionAds has made some changes, check their message:
“We are excited to announce some big improvements to our service today! We are working hard to make AuctionAds the best ad system with the best publisher service available.”
They have a new look and a new Web 2.0 ad creative, check:
Before:
Now:
You can still see what works better for you and use both ways…
But with the new and improved code they offer better images and better ad network performance…
Well, I still like the previous way, but new look gives big improvements…
With Success
Pedro Sardinha
AuctionAds announced some improvements and new features about their services. First of all Ads are much bigger now and pictures are really very smooth and bright as you see on left side. (more…)
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AuctionAds has been given a makeover. The AuctionAds blog post by Peter Galvin mentions the following:
New “Web 2.0? Ad Creative’s: Login to your account and go to the “Get Code” page. You will notice a sleek new ad design with multiple color schemes to choose from that we think will increase click-through rates to your ads (which will result in you earning more money).
Optimized Ad Images: Our ad code is now optimized so that the auction images are no longer stretched or distorted. This makes for a cleaner ad appearance and should also improve clicks.
Better Ad Network Performance: We have doubled the size of our hardware infrastructure and optimized it to ensure near 100% uptime of ad serving (and to make sure your ads are served lighting fast).
AuctionAds.com has a Brand New Look!
The site design has been given a slight uplift even though its basically the same. The part that interested me was the new Ad layouts and the improved server infrastructure.
Lets hope t
It’s all over the net already, AuctionAds are going Down down down… as time goes on it seems that ShoeMoney ran away just in time,
I hear so many webmasters complaining about AuctionAds it’s getting too shady in my opinion, I wonder if the company who bought it knew what they were doing.
It seems that on top of the usual problems (Slow load, untargeted ads and lots of downtime) they STILL haven’t fixed the tracking stats problems;
we’re reaching the 2nd week with NO STATS, shame on them.
I’ve heard too many people complaining Tech Support will not answer
or gives out Automatic answer saying they are “Working” to fix the problem,
but if you ask me, it won’t take long before the whole thing crush to the ground…
they are already losing a lot of heavy publishers.
For me, Auction ads generated a rough estimate of 40 USD per month,
and now dropped back to 3 – 4 USD, this is NOT the usual summer slowdown!
And you know what drives me
I’ve been using AuctionAds for some time now,
with their help I’ve been able to break my Income record last month
and pass the $150/month milestone, but something happened with them.
I’m not sure how it all happened and what does it all mean,
but it seems that ShoeMoney knew the right time to cashout and run away.
It started with Downtimes, server breakups, PHP errors, apache crushes and the latest
one, stats not being updated (for almost a whole week).
When I’ve tried to contact their Tech support I’ve got the following respond:
“Currently, Commission Junction, the affiliate company for eBay, is experiencing reporting delay problems.
They have not yet provided a time frame when it will be corrected, but you will see your reports up to date when it has been fixed. Tracking is still happening, it’s just not reporting back correctly yet.
Sorry for the inconvenience.”
“… They have not yet provided a time frame when it will be corr
Shoemaker, famoso scrittore del blog Shoemoney.com, ha venduto AuctionAds alla societa’ che oggi possied Text Link Ads, la Media Whiz International.
AuctionAds passera’ alla storia come il network pubblicitario con la crescita piu alta di tutti i tempi. In quattro mesi e’ passato da zero a 25,000 affiliati.
Shoemaker, confessa di aver venduto solo perche’ non aveva [...]
Shoemaker, famoso scrittore del blog Shoemoney.com, ha venduto AuctionAds alla societa’ che oggi possied text link Ads, la Media Whiz International.
AuctionAds passera’ alla storia come il network pubblicitario con la crescita piu alta di tutti i tempi. In quattro mesi e’ passato da zero a 25,000 affiliati.
Shoemaker, confessa di aver venduto solo perche’ non aveva [...]
Now this really surprised me. Media Wiz reached an agreement with Shoemoney and his business partner Dillsmack to sell the recently launched AuctionAds platform.
Full Story: Media Whiz Aquires AuctionAds
I’m not really surprised by the sale itself but by the fact that the product hadn’t reached it’s adolescence let alone maturity.
One of the things I really like about Jeremy is that he is a Man that is not afraid of publicly stating his weaknesses. It’s not a very common trait to find these days, and only people who are truly confident on their abilities are able to do this without a twitch.
I never saw Shoe as a “Project maintenance” kind of guy, so when first talked about the Auction Ads project I always wondered how he would do in the support side of things. Just as I thought, not only was it something that he hated doing, but it was also something that he wasn’t particularly happy to do either.
All in all I think it was a good deal for
Hello Fellow Reader,
ShoeMoney is no longer the owner of AuctionAds…
As you can read on his blog, AuctionAds has been sold to Media Whiz, from Dave, also owner of ReviewMe and Text-Link-Ads…
That is a big improvement for us publishers, cause on these last month has been very clear that ShoeMoney needed help to take AuctionAds to the next level…
Media Whiz has the know how to run sites with large number of publishers…
But, what is AuctionAds?
AuctionAds uses ebay affiliate program and provide a income opportunity to webmasters…
Learn more:
1. can be used with adsense, since its not contextually based
2. they pay paypal on the first of every month (minimum $10)
3. you can use the same account to multiple sites
4. no minimum of ads per page…
Check here the 468*60 Auction Ads banner for blog keyword:
Join AuctionAds and test it on your blog/site for at least one month, try to think as the visitors of your site to choose the best keywords…
ShoeMoneyMedia Group Inc. (del famoso blogger Shoemaker) and MediaWhiz Holdings il 6 Marzo 2007 hanno annunciate il lancio di AuctionAds. AuctionAds da’ ai siti web un nuovo modo di guadagnare e monetizzare il loro traffico unsando il programma di affiliazione di eBay.
ShoeMoneyMedia Group Inc. (del famoso blogger Shoemaker) and MediaWhiz Holdings il 6 Marzo 2007 hanno annunciate il lancio di AuctionAds. AuctionAds da’ ai siti web un nuovo modo di guadagnare e monetizzare il loro traffico unsando il programma di affiliazione di eBay.
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Hello Fellow Reader,
PedroSardinha.com will now start to work with ShoeMoney site AuctionAds…
Well, post #1 was “Their Favorite Song? Why John Cow?“
AuctionAds seems a opportunity of getting fast income from the blog, high targeted keywords, fast payments, paypal payments and for what I have read, having huge success on other sites already…
How Does AuctionAds Work? Well, today is “Harry Potter” day, so you can add the “Harry Potter” tag to your the AuctionAds code and get and advert like this one:
As you can see, its similar to google adsense, but since its not contextual advertising it can be used with adsense…
If you are using AuctionAds please let us know and give a review by addin a comment to this post
I hope AuctionAds can bring us good reults, I will try to reviews this as soon as possible!
With Success
Pedro Sardinha
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Since putting AuctionAds on my blog about a month ago, i've been very pleased with its performance. Today I received a payment of $62, which isnt too bad.
By contrast, Chitika hasn't earned me a cent yet, so I'll be replacing the Chitika advert below with and AuctionAd one.
Son muchas las formas de rentabilizar nuestros blogs,ya sea por medio de banners de pago privado,o con el famoso ADSENSE,yo llevo poco con mi blog y he probado con diferentes formas y una de ellas es AUCTIONADS,a mi en lo particular me gusto mucho su apariencia y la estructura de los banners,son con imagenes,y estan en nuestro idioma tambien,son remates en linea,de eso se trata basicamente las promociones,aconsejo que las paginas que tengan poco trafico no lo pongan en su sitio,es una perdida de tiempo,es muy aconsejable para las webs de informatica,su diseño y sus imagenes le acompañan para las paginas de esa tematica.http://www.auctionads.com adictos Los pagos son con cheques y via paypal,recuerden que son remates y lo mejor es qyue puedes elegir tu la tematica de los anuncios,una excelente herramienta para ganar unos pesos,euros,dolares,en fin sucio dineroHASTA LUEGO!WEBMASTERS ADICTOS 2007 SANTIAGO DE CHILE
Auction ads is another place where we can earn money.When a user clicks a auction ad takes appropriate action whether he registers or bids on an item then we are paid for such type of actions.And now auction ads are giving $5 bonus for the members who have account with text link ads or reviewme.The minimum payout is $10 so the remaining amount the members can make easily to make their first pay out. We are paid monthly through paypal. The auction ads will work out for the members those who have massive amount of traffic.My blog have chance of earning but it will be every less.I should implement it and see whether it works or not.Most of the bloggers are making much money from auction ads.So i want to give it a try.And see how it increases bid on my site's income.At first i thought to decline the invitation offer from text link ads later i signed up.Already i declined text link ads post level ads.Now i can't decline this instead i would take up the offer.Auction ads can be displayed a
I’ve been trying out AuctionAds on some of my entertainment sites and I have noticed two things:
1. The Click Throught Rate is great, I’m seeing way more clicks than I did with Adsense. Also, when I had both of them on the same site having AuctionAds didn’t decrease the amount of clicks I was [...]
Auction Ads allows you to monetize your website by displaying live eBay auctions next to your related Article or anywhere you want your ads to be.
All payments to you are made through Paypal and if you have no account yet with paypal, do signup with one!
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Jika anda punya website, blog, atau apapun bentuknya dan anda bisa meletakkan link di web anda tersebut, anda bisa menghasilkan uang dengan meletakkan link tersebut di web ada. Ini juga termasuk informasi lowongan kerja. Hitung-hitung kerjaan sementara waktu.. Tapi banyak juga lho yang menjadikan pekerjaan utama... Salah satu programnya adalah AuctionAds Daftar saja sekarang.. Gratis Kok.. Masalah nanti bagaimana caranya bisa kita pelajari bersama-sama... atau suring saja di google.. Sudah banyak orang Indo yang ikutan program ini.. isi program ini adalah program yang kita akan mendapatkan bayaran jika orang yang mengklik.. link lelang tersebut melakukan sesuatu. Misalnya belanja, jadi anggota e-bay dan lainnya. (masih belajar juga sich) Sekian Info-lowongan hari ini... Look.. AuctionAds
My AuctionAds earnings was definitely a surprise package last month. I still can’t believe how drawn people are towards auctions but they sure proved me wrong there. I guess it’s about finding great bargains and if it was referred by our blog, then we can look forward to a small percentage of the transaction.
What I [...]
Great news! Have you ever heard of ReviewMe? ReviewMe is a site like Pay Per Post, Smorty, Blogitive, etc but it's super hard to get accepted into. Paid Opportunities is a PR 3 blog with a mailing list containing over 100 subscribers and I have been denied twice by ReviewMe so I simply gave up, BUT if you are looking to make some pretty FAST cash then you should check this out -
One of the
Como muchos habran notado desde hace dos semanas aproximadamente,en mixelandia incorporamos algo mas de publicidad, esto con miras a obtener algo de remuneración, y aunque no se puede decir que las personas de habl hispana compren mucho por internet, o mque se pueda ganr millonadas, pero si logramos sacarle algo de provecho a esto que mejor no, hay que recordar que el hosting no es gratis.Si estubieran interesados en poner algo de publicidad en sus páginas y obterner algo de remuneración, no duden en inscribirse a este programa de AuctionAds siguiendo este linkMixelandia
If you are a Text-Link-Ads member and have not signed up with AuctionAds, then this is the perfect time to do so. They are now offering a cool USD 5 to any TLA publishers who sign up this week so that means you only have to generate another USD5 to achieve the low minimum payout.
You [...]
AuctionAds.com is offering $5.00 bonus sign up for Text-Link-Ads users. Note that the minimum payout for AuctionAds.com is $10.00.
What is AuctionAds?
It’s just simple as what it tells by the name Auction the Ads. Get yourself sign up and you will get something like below
Many other Ad format likes:leaderboard, banner, large & medium rectangle, skyscraper, etc.
How [...]
A while ago I posted about some new ads on this blog, saying that if AuctionAds didn't start to show some earnings, they'd have to go. Now, I know that earnings don't come instantly; you have to wait to see some progress, but 11 days, 1534 impressions and 33 clicks later, my earnings are still at $0.00.On the other hand, the Kontera ContentLink ads are doing alright. They're the double-underlined links seen dotted around the site, and have been through 5 clicks and raised $0.96, which is about $0.19 a click. Although the CTR isn't as high as AuctionAds, I seem to be earning more.The banners seen around the posts are netting in a referral every now and then to the program advertised, so they'll stay as well. However, the AuctionAds will be replaced. With what? You decide. Comment with an advertisers program, and I'll give it a look.
I have avoided putting examples of ads on my blog so far as there are plenty of sites that talk about monetizing your blog. Being a real fan of eBay (I love any chance of a bargain) I am making an exception.AuctionAds provide a way of tapping into the eBay affiliate program - by displaying eBay ads on your web site. You earn commission when links clicked from your site result in a Winning Bid, a Buy-it-Now purchase or a confirmed user registration. Ads are customized to your site content and are country specific - e.g. ads on my site will be from eBay Australia.AuctionAds Reached 5,000 Publishers within the first week of launching. You can read more about it on the AuctionAds Blog.To get an AuctionAds account? - Sign Up Here!Filed in: Monetize, Blog Ads,sueblimely
This program was launched earlier this month but I was too busy to review it and thus I shall today since they released a new feature. Anyways, this exciting program was the brainchild of Shoemoney and MediaWhiz who are the people behind TextLinkAds and ReviewMe so you know they mean business.
What AuctionAds does is basically [...]
I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on something I talked about a few days ago regarding AuctionAds, as I stated in my previous article with AuctionAds you can earn money by displaying eBay auctions on your website or blog, you'll get the most results from the program if you target the particular subject your writing about, as you know I don't display these ads on this blog because there is not a lot of eBay auctions surrounding Agloco.
The only real auctions you'll find are the ones getting people to sign up, so its not the best place to display them. However if you've got another website or blog about something else, lets say "Cars" then you can easily target cars and have live eBay auctions displaying cars, this will get you the most amount of clicks and make you the most amount of money.
Anyway back on topic here, what I would like to update you on is a few more technicals I found out, I was talking to ShoeMoney on a particular forum we both use and with AuctionAds
I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on something I talked about a few days ago regarding AuctionAds, as I stated in my previous article with AuctionAds you can earn money by displaying eBay auctions on your website or blog, you'll get the most results from the program if you target the particular subject your writing about, as you know I don't display these ads on this blog because there is not a lot of eBay auctions surrounding Agloco.
The only real auctions you'll find are the ones getting people to sign up, so its not the best place to display them. However if you've got another website or blog about something else, lets say "Cars" then you can easily target cars and have live eBay auctions displaying cars, this will get you the most amount of clicks and make you the most amount of money.
Anyway back on topic here, what I would like to update you on is a few more technicals I found out, I was talking to ShoeMoney on a particular forum we both use and with AuctionAds
As one of the first people to post about the Auctionads.com launch I am lucky enough to be found in the number one Google position for Auctionads.com !
So its been live for a few days and already people are reporting good things about the service with some people reporting massive earnings compared to both AdSense and YPN.
As you can see from above the Ads look a lot like the current AdSense program but as they are non contextual you can run them alongside your Adsense campaigns. Shoemoney has also announced that in the first 24 hours of Auctionads.com going live there were over 1000 subscribers to the service!
Good luck Shoemoney with the project!
Here is a good news for bloggers, particularly those who have a blog which is product related. ShoeMoney and MediaWhiz ( the owner of Text Link Ads ) have launched a new affiliate program on March 6th - AuctionAds . AuctionAds displays live eBay auctions to visitors based on the website owner’s keyword preference and pays out on a CPA (cost per action) basis. Auction Ads pay publishers if the reader DO something on the ads - click on the ads, bid for the item bidded, register for ebay or buy items from ebay through AuctionsAds.I have to say that AuctionAds is one of the easiest affiliate program offered on the internet. One of the best things about AuctionAds is that there are no minimum requirements to join their program. Anyone is welcome to join it and make sure you do have a blog or a homepage. Since AuctionAds is a new affiliate program, their goal is to amass as many publishers (and traffic) as they can so everybody can make more money. Now, it is your best chance to join Auc
AuctionAds.com (http://www.auctionads.com/refer_f4702cd8d0a95cce6949) is pretty similar to Blogkits and Chikita eMiniMall (is this how you spell it?). Though the details are...
ShoeMoney and MediaWhiz, the owners of Text Link Ads, have finally launched Auction Ads
Features:
Google AdSense and Auction Ads can run alongside
Auction Ads promises 100% revenue to the publisher of the ad currently
Auction Ads can be chosen with keywords selected by publisher
Auction Ads are well-suited for niche sites
Auction Ads got more than a 1000 subscriptions on the day of launch
Auction Ads would increase bidding on ebay
Auction Ads pay on the 1st of every month, no waiting for 15-30 days
Auction Ads may not work well if your content does not match the ebay ads
Auction Ads may pay you only at the end of an auction
The buzz is big, let’s see if it lives up to the hype. If you’ve used eBay affliliates programs before, do share your views here.
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A few weeks ago Shoemoney ended his Shoemoney Ads project which allowed people to show Google AdSense style adverts containing Ebay listings. The program was invitation only and even tho I was invited I did very little testing due to time constraints working on other projects.
Over the last couple of weeks the official Shoemoney blog has begun showing “AuctionAds.com” adverts which look exactly like the previous Shoemoney Ad product but with a more professional layout. The main Auctionads.com website is currently not open to the public and has a password protected screen which means a public launch sounds imminent.