Auction Ads

Auction Ads - Increase the Bid on Your Site's Income

Auction Ads is an eBay ads network affiliated with Text Link Ads network that shows CPA ads on your site. When a visitor clicks an ad on your site, and buys the product or registers for an eBay account, you get a commission. You don't need a high traffic site to join.

Pros

Applying is fast and automated. Only takes minutes to get your ads up. You can select what ads to show by selecting keywords. Auction Ads can be run on a site with AdSense ads, or other contextual ads.

Their tracking system is adequate, and your can see your traffic and revenue data as a graph. You can customize how the ads look like, but as they feature images of eBay products, they will look like ads no matter what you do.

The revenue you get is the same as what eBay offers: 50-75% of eBay revenue on sales, and $25-35 on new eBay users, who register and buy a product within 30 days. They also have an affiliate program, where you earn 2% of referral revenue for 6 months. The link next to the ads works as a referral link.

Cons

At first the ads may show completely irrelevant products. If you have a low traffic site, this may continue so that visitors will only see relevant ads, if they make multiple clicks on you site.

Despite being able to customize colors, it is very difficult to blend the ads to your site layout. Therefore, they should only be used on sites with product images.

Overall

My Rating: 2/5

I recommend Auction Ads only if your site is about some products that are on sale, eg. digital cameras, or computer hardware. Then the ads are likely to show relevant content, and may generate sales.

If your site has low traffic, and won't benefit much from other ad programs, you can use Auction Ads, and hope you get lucky: that someone buys a car from eBay after following your link. High traffic sites may be able to generate steady income from Auction Ads, but middle sized websites are unlikely to benefit much.

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BidVertiser

BidVertiser - Site targeted marketplace

BidVertiser is a CPC ad network. They show text ads, and optionally eBay ads, targeted on your site. Their advertisers bid against each other to give you best income and they have no minimum impression rate for your site.

Pros

Applying to BidVertiser is easy, as sites are first auto accepted into the program, and only removed if they break the rules. Sign up only takes minutes; you can have the ads on your site in less than 20 minutes. Customizing the ads to your website is easy with their ad editor. You can choose from various sizes, and select either text only ads, or allow eBay ads too.

They give you targeted ads - apparently through website categorization - and offer a filtering service to block unwanted ads from appearing on your site. All ads must also be pre-approved by their editorial team.

With your account you can also refer other publishers or advertisers, and gain revenue from ads that they buy of sell. According to their site, "When a user signs as an advertiser and first spends $10, we'll credit your account with $5. When that same advertiser spends $50, you will be credited with an additional $20." and "When a user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, we'll credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40."

They have a tracking system with which you can view statistics for each of your ads, and see impressions and clicks separately. The impression and click statistics update a few hours late, so don't be surprised if they don't seem to work at first.

You can view the highest bids for ads from your account, and the rates are usually quite high compared to for example AdSense. The system automatically displays the best paying ads on your site. You'll see ads with CPC of $1-$2.5 even.

Cons

If you wish to advertise yous site with them you have to create another account, as 'Advertiser' and 'Publisher' accounts exist separately. They also have some rules that you have to know; read them from the How to avoid account termination link on the publisher section. The single most important rule is: never click your own ads!

A large share of the advertising money is earned by the referrer: $40 of the first $90. This means that to really profit you need to also run the referral program. Fortunately the BidVertiser account also works as a referrer account, and the link above your ads is a referral link (unlike in AdSense).

Overall

My Rating: 4/5

I highly recommend BidVertiser. Their rates are good, and it is very easy to set up. The ads can be customized to look like your site content. BidVertiser is also good for sites with little visitors, since their minimum withdrawal is $10 through PayPal. They also offer a free $20 for new advertisers, which you can claim below.

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