Technology Reports

The latest and greatest Advertising affiliae program to come out is AuctionAds. It allows you to put targetted Auctions on your website, and if a site visitor clicks thru and wins an acution, you get a percentage of the Auction fees.

What is great about this program is that it is really easy to get started - signup takes less than 30 seconds and you can have targetted ads on your site within a few minutes. You can change most aspects of an ad - such as text colour, link colour border colour and also choose from several sizes.

As the ads are not contextual in mnature, you can use them on the same pages as other ad programs. You choose the keywords for the ads you wish to display.

Every Ad unit also has a link on the bottom back to Auction Ads - and this link could be quite valuable to the publisher - as it is an affiliate link

When the program came out, I thought why not give it a go. So after signing up, I put up a couple of ad units on a few high traffic web pages that I hoped would be reasonably targetted. It has been a little over a week, and I have had around 150K impressions, around 700 Clicks which has resulted in a few $$. While not a lot of $$, there is still a lot of peotential for me to earn from these clicks. Each time someone clicks thru, the affiliate cookie is set to 30 days - if they are the winning bidder anytime within 30 days you will earn.

I have only picked just 1 keyword for ads that I thought would be appropriate to my site visitors but anyone with a lot of visitors and targetted traffic has the potential to do pretty good with AA.

I guess only time will tell how good it is and like any program it will take a bit of fine-tuning to ensure that the right sort of auctions are displayed, but like everything, I guess it will work better on certain types of sites.