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July 3rd, 2007

AuctionAds Earns BIG in June

Time again for the latest installment of AuctionAd’s monthly performance report. During May I was able to send over 3 MILLION impressions to AuctionAds $216.27 in commissions. Unfortunately the average earnings per click was below .01 per click. I said I would continue to run the offer through June to see if numbers improve, since the new eBay commissions were coming into play. I am happy to say I sent over 10 MILLION ad impressions to AuctionAds during June and was able to earn a sweet $1,691.42! The best part is I went from earning less than a penny per click in May to over .03 per click in June!

I look forward to seeing how July turns out. With the summer slowness, I might see a drop in overall traffic (ad impressions), but what will continually matter most is the earnings per click. AuctionAds has been a nice addition to my revenue stream, and I was able to implement the ads so I didn’t have to actually remove any other offers! How sweet is that!? Monetize, monetize, monetize!

Lastly, I will try and meet up with Jeremy Schoemaker at Affiliate Summit and see if I can get any advice on improving my already awesome numbers. As stated on his blog a few weeks ago, they are paying around $500k a month in commissions. I would imagine the vast majority of affiliates on AuctionAds are earning quite minimal amounts, especially with the free $5 signup incentive offered by so many networks and forums. While $500k is a decent amount of commissions to pay out per month, I would still like to consider myself one of the higher earners on the network. It would be interesting to see the type of sites that are earning $10k+ a month with AuctionAds, based on their traffic, earnings per click and what the high targeting keywords are. I think it would be really cool if AuctionAds added a top performers list for each month, displaying their top 10 earners. No need to show the site urls/names… just the amounts. This way no secrets are lost… just some pure motivation for existing affiliates! :)

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    20 Comments


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    2007-07-03 17:19:28

    Im actually earning a bit more with this now too… its apple and oranges compared to what your earning, but on good days its a few bucks

     
    Comment by Bob
    2007-07-04 07:26:23

    On what sites are you running this? I haven’t made more than $20..

     
    Comment by lyzazel
    2007-07-04 11:25:58

    Hmm, maybe I’m missing something here.

    But are you earning 3 cents per click?
    Like, adsense pays at least 10 cents per click.

    What’s the point then?

    Comment by Zac Johnson
    2007-07-04 11:49:11

    The point is… AuctionAds is an additional revenue stream ON TOP of adsense, cpm banners and cpa offers.

     
    Comment by Business Twins
    2007-07-05 12:23:55

    He receives another 1,691 in revenue compared to not running the ads he would have earned $0. This is just extra icing on the top.

    Comment by lyzazel
    2007-10-14 16:22:06

    This is so old. However, I kinda think running another additional adsense banner (that is, if you don’t run 3 already) would have made more than running AuctionAds in its place. Whatever.

     
     
     
    Comment by Paul.
    2007-07-04 20:03:22

    Maybe you should put some efforts into increase the CTR? The numbers are good but .52 is pretty low. Even getting it to 1% would give you a huge boost in earnings.

    10 Million impressions is insane. Good incentive to build my own traffic.

     
    Comment by Mike
    2007-07-05 09:54:54

    10 million impressions? Crap in a hat! By my reckoning I’ll not be getting my $1500 AuctionAds cheque for another 20 years!

    Good to see it’s working out for you, though. I’m still struggling to find a way to really make it work for me. I’ve made a few bucks from it but not enough to make it worthwhile.

     
    Comment by Joey
    2007-07-05 14:30:43

    Great job. I read your earlier post and was afraid you would drop Auction Ads. I am by no means in your league but I do at least get paid every month from Auction Ads. It is the only payment level I am making every month right now.

     
    Comment by Bob
    2007-07-05 16:08:38

    Correct me if I’m wrong but if someone clicks on an auction, it can take up untill they make a winning bid before you actually get money right?

    Comment by Zac Johnson
    2007-07-08 04:21:32

    There is a 30 day cookie. Since auctions are always ongoing and usually in a few days process, it would take some time to reflect commissions. My numbers are all over the place during the course of the month.

     
     
    Comment by Mike
    2007-07-05 20:08:20

    Bob - Yeah it’s based on winning bids but there’s a 30 day cookie so even if they miss out on the original click, so long as they make a winning bid within the next 30 days you’ll get some wedge.

     
    Comment by Starboykb
    2007-07-06 02:35:22

    quite interesting, i dont see any adauction appear in your blog. I wonder what tricks you got here?

    Comment by Susan Subscribed to comments via email
    2007-07-12 14:33:13

    I was wondering the exact same thing. Obviously I am overlooking something though. Perhaps they are on other sites, or landing pages?

     
     
    Comment by Russell Wagner
    2007-07-08 03:48:14

    Wow this encourages me. I’m trying to find good and numerous types of revenue streams. This is a good thing to hear. I may use them.

     
    2007-07-10 11:10:27

    […] example, AuctionAds Earned BIG for Zac Johnson in June. However, he also was able to send 10 MILLION impressions and still averaged just .03 per […]

     
    2007-07-24 22:14:41

    […] all said, the rubber meets the road on economics.  I have yet to find any bloggers at scale that are generating over a $.20 CPM, which is still small potatoes in most categories.  […]

     
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    2007-07-28 04:31:36

    MediaWhiz приобретает AuctionAds

    Маркетинговая компания MediaWhiz, владелец таких известных проектов, как ReviewMe и Text Link Ads, приобрела еще один успешный стартап – компанию AuctionAds

     
    Comment by Marko Pyhajarvi Subscribed to comments via email
    2007-09-20 07:40:28

    That $1690 a pretty good money on top all other sources of income. Sounds encouraging. Man, 10 million impressions is a lot..

     
    2008-03-02 12:06:28

    […] downloads), Google Adsense (generated nearly six-figures in revenue), AuctionAds (I posted multiple times on my earnings with them), WidgetBucks (another new program, which I also posted earnings […]

     

     

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