AuctionAd Increases Affiliate Payout
written by John Chow
After unveiling the new Web 2.0 looking AuctionAds banners, the company has announced an increase in affiliate payout. The payout rate for signing up a new AuctionAds publisher increases from 2% to 5% effective immediately.
AuctionAds publishers, we are happy to announce a nice raise in our affiliate payouts. Effective immediately 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!
AuctionAds affiliate links are built directly into the “Ads By AuctionAds” link in the AuctionAds ads. You are credited with a sign up if someone applies and gets approved by AuctionAds via your link.
The increase in affiliate payout is good news indeed. However, I think AuctionAds needs to work on the performance of their ads more. I haven’t tried the new web 2.0 ads yet but the old ads are not performing very well. I’m going to try changing the keywords and see if that increases the click rate. If you’re running the new AuctionAds banners, I would love to hear how it’s doing for you compared to the old style.
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Auction Ads is another affiliate program that I am in
Hey, that’s fantastic! What other affiliate programs are you in?
I don’t understand auction ads do you only make money when people buy that item??
buy an item or sign up for an account
I did know they also paid if someone signs up for an account. I may try them again.
V
Yes that’s right
From what I hear on this site, no one is making much money from auctionads. Why would buyers/shoppers use the service when they can just use e-Bay instead? I think most people are suspicious of middlemen.
That’s not the point. People see something that interests them via banners on your website.
Its great that they increase Affiliate payout.
I am looking for product to advertise on my blogs.
Hope to make some money from AuctionAds.
Great or not, it sounds pretty much like the Google AdSense affiliate (referral) which gives you the chance to earn money only for the first 6 months…but after that what happens?
The 6% can be good in some cases, but really bad in others. I would still prefer a flat rate as TLA or any other affiliate program that pays a flat rate for referrals.
It’s nothing like google adsense, with google adsense you get paid when someone just clicks on the link not when someone makes a purchase through the link.
don’t know but it’s much much more easy to get clicks than leads/sales.
I think he’s talking about the Google Adsense Referral Program, not publishing adsense ads.
Why is the 6% bad?
V
Nice action to increase the payout.
May I should try it also to earn cash with auctionads.
You probably will, but like John, I haven’t seen a lot of money from there either. (at least not as much as there could be)
It would be nice if they fix the quality of their images in the banners, they look horrible. I have signed up with them but the ungly looking banners keep me from posting them on the web site.
John you get paid when someone buys the product right??
U’ve got some AuctionAds going on at the bottom of every post, would you mind sharing the progress they are making. Are you getting any sales?
It’s too early to tell. I’m am still testing. However, to answer your question, yes you get paid when someone buys the item in question.
Ok thanks John, well I’ll most probably be reading a post from you pretty soon about your progress with AuctionAd’s right?
Will be waiting for it.
Another Thing, would it be too much of a hassle to write a post about how (People like me) who cannot receive paypal payments can easily sell direct ads?
Are there any payment methods, Credit Card processing. Don’t know but I guess it would be interesting to know how you would have gone around such an issue.
You can check out this thread at DP for the payment processors question: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=464945
Also when someone new signs up to eBay and buys an item ($25 I believe).
$25 per signup!?
Are you sure?
V
I haven’t noticed the Auction Ads myself…so they aren’t effective at least to me.
Ive never liked auctionads, their performance is only good on a select few sites, and they don’t really look that good.
I agree with this.. their look has improved a bit though.
Well they ARE advertisements, its not like they are the easiest thing to make pretty.
This move is a lot better than the new web 2.0 banners imo. Larger affiliate payouts is always a good thing!
Yes, increasing payouts was a smart move.. this may keep them afloat!
Yep, I won’t recommend adding auctionads on new blogs, or blogs with low traffic
That’s what I thought so too, I also don’t see AuctionAds as being a big earner for this blog either, I see it’s more inclined towards shopping websites, but hey only time will tell.
AuctionAds works very well with small niche sites but not too wel with sites not advertising a specific product or category.
Ive referred a few people yet have made nothing from affiliates do to it being hard to make them perform well.
Same here. On another blog of mine.. I did quite well for referrals, but very little payout resulted in them.
What was the payout like? Do you still use them on your blog or did you replace the space with something else?
V
Auction Ads Are Terrible my click thru rate was at 16% (no joke) on a 2,000 visitor a day blog with 7,000 pageviews and not one order was placed and the ads were directly targeted to a brand that the blog is all about and there was plenty of listings for it. The users would click thru, but not purchase.
Maybe cause audience consist of young women and maybe they don’t use Ebay as much but I tried it across a network of sites with men as the target and it performed terrible as far as someone actually buying a product. I think it is the worse yet.
Great idea, but it is not optimized yet and needs something else like maybe the (Ebay) lister pays extra fee for impressions from Auction ads. So that then the publisher can get a small amount for CPC and CPA because most just don’t follow thru with the purchase.
Sorry, but I typed really fast
I believe it’s only useful for niche sites which are promoting/selling related consumer products - unless John can show otherwise that’d be great.
I agree with YC. In fact, I was about to post a comment asking about the types of web sites that have had success promoting autionads. I had the ads on one of my sites, but took them off a couple months ago.
This is true
5% is good enough!
Hmmm I got to know about this change before I was even notified from AuctionAds by e-mail.
John’s getting the news way before we are
Once my blog starts getting decent traffic i might look at adding Auction Ads
It was good at first, the payouts were higher than Adcents on the same sites/positions but now it’s not working as well. Yesterday I had about 2000 impressions and only 4 clicks. All of the other ads performed better, even ones lower on the sidebar.
I haven’t tried the new ‘2.0′ themed widgets yet because they clash with the sites where I’m using AuctionAds.
Yeah, auction ads is pretty useless if you don’t have traffic. At least they look better now.. I didn’t hear this payout increase news either! It must be “priveledged info”!
No it’s not now! AuctionAds e-mailed me a few hrs after John announced it here.
I tried auction ads for a while and they basically were worthless. Perhaps I’ll put the code back on my site and try again. I tried multiple combinations of keywords and never found any success. Good luck!
Just installed this on my site, but having trouble thinking of keywords. If anyone has ideas let me know i guess lol
What does your blog represent to your readers? Your readers are the ones who will click the ads.
V
I’m running AuctionAds on one of my sites and it hasn’t performed as well as I had hoped. At this time, I’m thinking about removing it but I possibly may keep it up longer as the new owners make some changes….
I haven’t had good results with it either. I’ve had very few click thrus. What are you thinking of replacing it with Susan?
V
I am using Auction Ads as my main source of income for my Arcade website check out my site to get an idea of how to use Auction Ads
MyOGGames.com
Are they making more than adsense would? What kind of traffic levels does your site get?
Good thing I am not an early adoptor, now I can try auctionads… :0)
Thanks John for beta testing everything beforehand!
(You r my guinipig??? haha….)
Many comments towards John Chow’s “AuctionAds Increases Affiliate Payout” articles show me that there are not easy for peoples to have their own trust on a first sight. Same goes to AuctionAds…This program is just started..It is not an issue if there was a limited products being advertise on AA banners since there was also a challenge to AA in order to gain attention from those publishers.
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