AuctionAds have being housed on this blog for the past few days but they no longer grace the pages here. Why? Because it’s a pretty useless revenue system. I can’t honestly see anybody making a purchase on any of the items being sold on this blog. What are the chances of a user reading one of my blogposts, then seeing an auction item which he/she is interested in, then clicking on that auctioned item and finally making either a bid or a winning bid on that item? Very little to be honest.
As well as that it is geared more towards American users and the adverts look ugly. The javascript they used wasn’t as cosher as what it should be either. When I attempted to mix and match my ad formats to include two different types of auction, such as square and a skyscraper, whichever piece of javascript I placed first the other ad would inherit its settings. So if for example I placed a button in my header and a skyscraper within a blog post then both auctions would appear as buttons. That’s not exactly what I intended now is it?
I hoped that I might make a few conversions when I first placed them on my blog but the figures speak for themselves..
Bye bye!
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12 responses so far ↓
1 Gavin // Mar 24, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Funny that you posted this today as its exactly what Rooney and myself have been discussing this afternoon.
Dave pointed out that the ads looked rather cheap on my blog which I agreed on but I did like the fact that a lot of bum of breasts were appearing.
Like you I’ll be removing mine. From the looks of it you have been getting a better click amount.
2 cormacmoylan // Mar 24, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Have you made any money whatsoever from it? Cheap looking images and a piss poor delivery from their javascript is what turned me off. Plus of course the fact that it doesn’t work.
3 Gavin // Mar 24, 2007 at 10:17 pm
I have made nothing from the ads but I expect that after only 2 weeks.
They are piss poor looking which is my reason for removing them.
4 cormacmoylan // Mar 24, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Adsense is the only PPC crowd you can properly rely on. I have adbrite on my blog but some of the links they’re throwing up are a bit dodgy, especailly the image based ones which appear below the comment form.
5 Gavin // Mar 24, 2007 at 11:13 pm
It really is hard to beat Adsense when it comes to PPC.
I have noticed your Adbrite ads and some of them make me laugh but I will admit they are eye catching, although they are somewhat hidden below your comments box.
Are you making anything from Adbrite? I was an advertiser but it was a crap service so I didnt consider being a publisher.
6 Cormac // Mar 25, 2007 at 10:18 am
I might move my adbrite adverts around a bit, especially since I have a key spot located between my header and main post area. I will probably just install phpadsnew and rotate between adverts. That’s probably the most sensible thing to do, it will go some way to preventing banner blindness if the PPC programs are slightly different.
As for the revenue from Adbrite. Fairly poor so far but I haven’t optimized it properly.
7 Gavin // Apr 9, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Dam I should have known to link back to this previous post, sorry.
I haven’t removed my ads just yet but as soon as I get a spare 10 minutes they are coming off.
8 Cormac Moylan // Apr 9, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Ah, you’re grand. I was expecting anything whatsoever anyway.
Azooogle Ads looks like a decent alternative. It’s a complicated enough process to get an account setup though. You need to print out a order, fill it in and post it to them via a thing called the postal system. You need to use enevelopes or something?
9 Gavin // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Azoogle Ads is a great program, lots of people are doing really well in their campaigns.
I joined Azzogle last year, signed up via their website. Have the changed that process? Isn’t the form for taxes?
I do know they can take their time approving your account. If you apply on-line follow up with a phone call.
10 Gavin // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Grrr typo
11 Cormac Moylan // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I’ll take a look at the form and emails they sent me again. I rushed through it a bit as I was slacking of work at the time of applying
12 David // May 3, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I’m sorry AuctionAds didn’t work out for you.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that any issue with the javascript had to do with mangled code. We’ve seen it before where something strips the newlines out of the code, and then the first ad unit stripped the others. You can see at:
http://www.auctionads.com/test.php
That there is no problem putting different ad units on the page.
As far as conversions go.. you’re probably right that it won’t work that way. The advantage to the eBay program is that if that user returns to eBay several days later and buys something, you still get credit. I’d venture to say thats where 80% of the revenue comes from.
In the end, its not for everyone. Thanks for trying it.
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