Taking a page from the Auction Ads Playbook, Bidvertiser.com has created ads displaying Ebay auction listings. The new Bidvertiser ads actually look quite good, although one drawback is there seems to be no way for publishers to easily display the ad. From their email to me: Drive buyers to your eBay Listings using BidVertiser! BidVertiser…
I was searching for information about why my AuctionAds were performing so poorly, and I came upon another ad network offering from Media Whiz, ShoppingAds. Shopping Ads uses the same basic premise as the Auction Ads network by displaying relevant ads from aggregators. The big difference is that while AuctionAds is CPA (pays per sale)…
There’s been a lot of talk about the WidgetBucks ad network so I thought I would signup and try it out. I believe that every affiliate program or advertising network should be tested to see if it works. So I signed up with WidgetBucks.com and I have to say the design impressed me. In a…
The secret is out: having successful e-bay auctions begins with where you end, and the magic hour is eight o’clock. Buyers often outbid the “Buy it now” price. For popular eBay auctions 45 to 50 percent of buyers exceeded the “buy it now” price, artificially raising the price of these goods. The percentage of daily…
As Vinny Lingham says, Commission Junction now has an external advisory board. I have been using the CJ affiliate program and am generally pleased with it. Here are my top requests: allow us to have affiliate links for cj.com – why are you so stingy that you won’t give your thousands of existing affiliates incentive…
Here is an example of how to not treat affiliate websites: Embedding The Cookie With An IFrame. Long ago, in the beginnings of the web one could do sneaky things and get away with it, but no longer. From John Chow: An IFrame allows you to embed another HTML page inside the current webpage. What…
