Shoemoney Sells AuctionAds
written by John Chow
TechCrunch reports, and Shoemoney confirms, that AuctionAds has been sold to the owners ReviewMe and Text Link Ads, Media Whiz International.
AuctionAds could go down in history as the fastest growing ad network ever started - it went from zero to 25,000 publishers in just four months. The only problem was the shoe didn’t have the manpower or the experience it takes to handle customer service or the payment systems for a network of that size.
We basically came to the realization that we had to make a choice: AucitonAds/ShoeMoney Media Group INC could bring in a staff of people, train them and all that (which we had ZERO experience in doing) OR we could sell the company to someone who already has tons of experience in that area and can take AuctionAds to the next level.
Neither Shoemoney or Media Whiz would disclose the price paid for the ad network. AuctionAds isn’t making any money yet because it’s still pays out 100% of its eBay money to its publishers, according to TechCrunch.
Are You Making Money With AuctionAds?
I have to wonder how many publishers are making money with AuctionAds. The reason I ask this is because I’ve signed up 300 affiliates to the ad network and I get 2% of whatever they make for the next six month. So far, I’ve $61.67 in affiliate revenue. That means my entire network of 300 referrals earned a grand total of $3,083.50, or $10.28 per publisher. This isn’t per month either. This is since AuctionAds started.
If you’re running AuctionAds, I would love to hear how it’s doing for you. I would test it out but I don’t have any ad space for it at this time.
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From porn site to parenting site. Auctionads are everywhere these days
they take in anyone who signs up. that’s one of the reasons how they can grow so fast
And that’s why I love them!
Shomoney seems to be a very intelligent guy. When will I be able to sell such a successful company? Perhaps never.
But I’m blogging now and if it becomes more popular, perhaps I will sell it. :o)
If you want to see my daily progression:
BlogaDollar.com
Greetings from France John.
I’m giving AuctionAds a try on my personal blog but without much success. Little earnings and I also noticed they had quite a lot of downtime this month.
i think i will give auction ads a try, even though my friends told me that it’s a waste of time
Not only waste time also waste my space
Depends on your site. I wouldn’t expect them to perform too well on a “Make Money Online” site.
yeah, i also haven’t tried AuctionAds, and actually it seems not a nice money maker.
I repeat, is for big sites, or do u think than a blog with 1000 visits will have visitors than want use money for buy products?
Huh? Is that Harry Pothead?
Same here on the downtime. That and their stats tracking has been terribly off this month. My numbers are dismal vs. last month’s earnings.
Nope not so far, also started it a few weeks ago.
The Only thing I made is 5 bucks, but this is because Reviewme declinde my application and sent me to auction ads with a bonus of 5$.
But they only payout from 10$, so still 5$ to go
Help!!!!!
I also have $5 Bucks inside but not real money……..
I think is better for big sites like engadget
good targeted content
I can’t say that I’m surprised. I bet he got a good chunk of change from that deal though.
We have made $295 since starting just around when AAs started up.
that’s a impressive figure
john has only made sub70 after all
Matt,How u make this?Can give us some tips?
I applied the little keyword code for the ads so that it pulled in the category of the post to be the keyword for the ad. This makes things very specialized to the current audience.
You have to watch that those as multiple category keywords can create a combo that returns nothing from AAs and so they plug it with some irrelevant.
Our best month so far was May with a little over $150, then $50 in June, and sadly in July our sales completely flatlined for the second half of the month, leaving us at $25 so far.
One thing to watch is that you don’t want to give up too early. We’ve had dry spells and then suddenly a $17 day here and a $25 day there. Best tip though is to use the keyword specific code that looks at your WP category.
Auction ads is good in theory, but in practice, you have to get people to convert — not an easy task.
it’s so true.
that’s why we don’t make much money out of it
For every month I’ve made the minimum $10.00, they’ve paid me immediately on the 1st directly into my paypal account. I have nothing to complain about that, exceptionally prompt. Text Link Ads is great for that as well, they always pay right away…
I wonder how much he sold it for? It had to be a multi million dollar deal.
same here, i also would like to know the new plan for auctionads.
If auction ads have any new plan…..Johnchow will inform us.Rite?
Maybe auction ads will inform you?
A lot of people I know say that they haven’t been paid through AA.
maybe it’s because they’ve not made the minimum payout
I think half of the publisher of AA haven’t been paid cuz not made the min of payout!!!
The min payout is only $10
I haven’t seen a dime… I’ve sent them 1000s of clicks and my reports never went above $0… so naturally I took them off and never looked back…
Auctionads hasn’t gotten me anywhere on a few of my other blogs. I think it’d do much better on something that was more product-oriented though.
I tried auction ads for about 2 weeks, and got $0 from it. Maybe I didn’t put enough effort into it.
FT
Zero
Ditto, I’ve earned a grand total of $0 so far. Hopefully Patrick and the crew can step it up.
This was the goal all along I’m sure, and good for them! The buyers, I’m certain, will know exactly how to turn a profit on this long term and that can benefit all of us. I just started testing AuctionAds on one of my sites and I can’t say I am too impressed yet but I do think there is long term potential. The only surprising thing to me about this is the fact that Ebay didn’t buy them first.
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It comes in massive spurts. I’ll have several days with big fat goose eggs and then all of a sudden, I’ll have one day for $15 or something.
I’ve been using AuctionAds since they started, and I think my total revenue on the one site I’m using it on is about $250. It’s not too bad, and people really like the ads and click them a ton.
The biggest problem is that they are basically CPA ads, so people need to actually purchase ebay items for you to get paid.
The good thing is that when they click, it does set a 30 day cookie, so sometimes you get people who make ebay purchases later in the month and you get a cut.
I bet these ads would kill if you could somehow target a very “pro” ebay community, like people who constantly make ebay purchases. Even if they didn’t buy what your ads were showing, they would probably buy something within 30 days which would pay off for you…
With 8000 impressions and 18 clicks, I made $0
I will give it a chance in case they can better target my sites. Those are 3 very different niche(tech, movies and 1 naughty blog(funny adult toons)
). Maybe the change of ownership will make it a better system. If not, off they go.
If it happen to Adsense maybe you could earn more then 10-50 USD
Yup i will giving a try to Auction Ads after the change of ownership for A month if still no earnings……I will say “Bye Bye”
Here are our data points:
1091393 impressions, 12514 clicks, 1.15% CTR, $295.72 earned.
It’s going to take a lot more than just 18 clicks. Try getting more targeted with your keywords.
Do you put the code in each post thus more relevant keywords or is it in your template like me?
I will play again with my keywords.
I run AuctionAds in my other two websites(not in English), and the ads were displayed more than 3000 times per day with some clicks, but I got no money from it. Maybe AuctionAds only work for those sites in English.
It was only a matter of time. I wrote up on AuctionAds quite often and how it performed. I am hoping with the entrance of MediaWhiz, the network only gets better. My earnings for this month are nearly half of what they were for last month. They need better stats tracking and server management.
I use auction ads. I just started making sites in January so I am very new. In the last month and a half. I have made a little close to $400.00. I hope that this does not change. If it does I’ll just go and Use commission Junction. Is this a good plan? For some reason I make nothing from Google adsense but A lot (in my opinion anyway from AA).
It’s done something, nothing to retire off of and nothing like what Zach gets from it. I think AuctionsAds will be like any CPA type deal, it will heavily depend on your topic and your traffic.
So what’s the future for AA? Anyone got any gossip?
I just made a $5 for sign up only. Other $0
Although there are impressions and clicks with somebody interested on the bids. Anyway, doesn’t work for me.
Me too! $5 so far. Better than nothing… I guess.
I started it on March 14th and I’ve made $184.67 up ’til now. There are many days though were I make nothing. It has averaged about 40 bucks a month. My site is a Jimmy Buffett fan site, so AuctionAds is a good fit. I’d still like to see it making more though.
I made nothing from them either