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A something a little different today: a neat alternative / addition to AdSense.

Called AuctionAds it is a free-to-join system that creates ads that you can tailor to fit to your site’s look and feel. It delivers geo-targetted ads automatically and makes you money by generating ebay commissions for you without all the bother of having to sign up for ebay’s affiliate program.

Ebay is surprisingly generous with its commission program and you could make a lot more with this system than you can with AdSense, especially if you have a site that deals with high value items because what you earn relates directly to the value of whatever is being advertised.

Here’s are the details taken from ebay’s affiliate info pages:-

“Earn between 40% and 65% of eBay’s Revenue (not item sale price)
on Winning Bids or Buy It Now (BIN) transactions.”

“Earn between $12.00 and $22.00 for each new eBay active user”

Do you know that AuctionAds ad units can automatically rotate a group of keywords for you, so you don’t need to go through an ad serving system to rotate the keywords for your ad unit on a single page? All you need to do is chose your list of keywords and insert it into your keyword tag line within your AuctionAds javascript.

AuctionAds also includes a neat affiliate arrangement that grants you 2% of the earnings of anyone who signs up via your link for a period of 6 months.

That’s not hugely generous and personally I’d offer lifetime commissions but what is good about it is that each Auction Ad you display advertises the service, just as AdSense ads do.

Below the ads are the words “Ads by AuctionAds” rather like the wording “Ads by Google” that appear under your AdSense ads.

But with AuctionAds, if anyone clicks on that link to learn more about AuctionAds, they go to the AuctionAds site via YOUR affiliate link.

So you get the direct benefit of the referral, something which doesn’t happen with AdSense ads where a lot of your page space is taken up advertising a service that only Google benefits from.

The drawbacks: you have to set the keywords that will select your ads which means the process of setting ads up takes a little bit longer (although this does give you tight control over what type of ads you’ll get). Also, you are limited to image ads only.

More details here : AuctionAds

Take the AuctionAds Ten Day Challenge.

You have ten days before the end of the month, so they are asking new (or soon-to-be new) AuctionAds publishers to take the AuctionAds Ten Day Challenge. This means you make a commitment to add AuctionAds to your site for ten days to see how it compares to your other sources of online revenue, such as AdSense or YPN.

And best of all, you don’t even have to remove any of your current advertising to take their challenge, add AuctionAds to compliment what you are currently using. However, they won’t argue if you want to swap out AdSense or YPN for AuctionAds! They have made their challenge is so super easy, all you need to do is simply take the time to add an AuctionAds ad unit on every page of your site, and see how it performs for the next ten days.

Worried about loss of AdSense or YPN revenue? Traditionally the later days in the month earn publishers less money, as well as the fact there is a US holiday (Memorial Day) during this testing period, which causes most publishers to see a dramatic AdSense drop. So you have nothing to lose, and plenty of AuctionAds earnings to gain… and don’t forget you will continue to earn off those clicks thirty days after the challenge is complete!

Still not convinced? Here are some reasons why I think you should test out AuctionAds and take our Ten Day Challenge.

1. Publishers has reported that AuctionAds is making them double what they were earning with AdSense….think of how much money you could be missing out on that you can be earning in addition to AdSense

2. The immense inventory variety at AuctionAds means you don’t have to worry about a lack of ads showing for your site’s topic area. A quick eBay search will reveal what ad inventory is available for your chosen keywords, something neither Google nor Yahoo supports.

3. No PSAs! If there are no ads available (maybe you have an old page targeted with “football tickets” but forgot to change it once football season ended and tickets were no longer being actively sold on eBay) they will show ads related to technology (think iPods and Xbox), so you don’t lose any revenue potential.

4. You will continue to earn on those eBay clicks for the next 30 days, something you do not get with contextual advertising programs.

5. AuctionAds are geotargeted, meaning you can earn money off your visitors when they click ads from outside the US… YPN still does not permit their ads being shown to non-US visitors.

6. Because AuctionAds uses standard ad unit sizes, you can easily replace AdSense or YPN ad units without having to change your layout, not to mention they will fit in all the standard places such as sidebars or underneath blog or forum entries.

7. You can earn an affiliate commission off new AuctionAds publishers when they click the “Ads by AuctionAds” link on any of your ad units. Again, neither AdSense nor YPN do this.

8. Every ad they show has a picture, increasing your click through rate since your visitors will have a visual cue of what is being sold. Remember how well the images next to ad units trick worked?

Haven’t signed up yet? Click here to sign up now, and your application will be approved almost immediately, meaning you can start adding AuctionAds to your site today and start our Ten Day Challenge.

And don’t forget when you view your stats, you will see impressions, clicks and your CTR for the first couple of days, but with $0 earnings. This is because there is a two day delay showing earnings. So don’t be alarmed when you see $0 earnings during the first couple of days, this is completely normal. So you will see earnings for today’s clicks update in your account in two days time.

Once you see how well AuctionAds performs, drop them a line and let them know how well the AuctionAds Ten Day Challenge worked for you. And as an added bonus, if you take the Ten Day Challenge, they will credit your account $5 (new signups only)!

Signup here! Try AuctionAds