What is AuctionAds?

AuctionAds creates eBay auction ads, using keywords of your choosing, which you can then place in your forum. If any visitor buys from your site, you will be paid a commission. Auction ads appear similar to Google's Adsense ad banners, but the similarity ends there. Keep on reading, or you can discuss AuctionAds in our AuctionAds forum.

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How do I earn money with AuctionAds?

When your forum's visitors and members click on an AuctionAd listing and take an action on eBay, you earn cash. "Actions" are defined as a Winning Bid, a Buy-it-Now, or a confirmed user registration. For the time being, AuctionAds is focused on growth, and they are paying out 100% of the revenue to their publishers.

Simply put, when one of your members clicks on your AuctionAds ad, if they win the auction, you get a % of the eBay fees. In addition, there is a 30 day cookie placed on the members' computer, and you get credit for any auction they win for 30 days.

I have found my users actually LIKE the AuctionAds and see them as a convenience rather than an ad!

Some of the basic features of AuctionAds

• You specify the keywords - the program is not contextual
• Currently, there are 12 ad formats to choose from, with more coming.
• Enter color values for border, background, heading, description and links.
• Specify whether to open ad links in a new window.
• Payment - Payment is made by Paypal rather than check, with a $10 threshold
• International - Forum and website owners from the UK and other countries are able to join Auction Ads, as well
• Because it uses Ebay auctions, you automatically have credibility with your users

Even better for vBulletin forum owners:

If you download and install the Rewrite eBay To AuctionAds hack, you can make more money. What this hack does is simple. When a member of your forum posts an ebay link in your forum, it rewrites that link to include your AuctionAds id, so it's just like you placed the ad.

For example, one of your users posts his ebay auction for a car part for sale on your forum. With this hack, you earn money if someone on your site clicks the link and buys the part!

Even if you choose not to display ad units on your forum, I highly recommend you sign up for AuctionAds and install Rewrite eBay To AuctionAds hack.

We also now have another hack available: Forum Keywords for AuctionAds This hack allows you to choose different keywords for each forum you have giving you greater flexibility with your forum in choosing keywords which will give you higher converting ads and help you earn more revenue.

Payments - How and When You Get Paid:

AuctionAds disburses payments the first of every month, via PayPal. The payment is for all revenue generated during the previous month. There is only a $10 minimum for earnings payout. Unlike other advertising programs, you dont have to wait several weeks or months to be paid.

Does AuctionAds support international affiliates?

AuctionAds currently supports traffic from all countries in which eBay has a presence. Ad units currently only display in English, but all click traffic is geotargeted to the visitors' country.

To clarify: at this time no ads are displayed from other countries' eBay sites. When a non-US visitor clicks an ad, they are taken to a search page of items from the same keywords. As ad impression volume builds from specific countries, AuctionAds will consider adding local ad display. Statistics and testing has shown that this converts extremely well for international users.

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