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eBay Ads are Pretty Hot

Posted August 28th, 2006 by Jeremy Schoemaker

I have been running the eBay ads on the right for a bit now and …. I gotta say I am pretty impressed. Its paying about 4x what Adsense or Yahoo Publisher network has ever paid on average for the last 2 weeks. Its really hit and miss daily… I have had some midrange 3 figure days then some days only a few dollars… Pretty awesome for a silly blog that doesnt get that much traffic

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25 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    Moviejunkie

    LOL .. good find
    Many blogs would be

  2. Good Comment?
    Mark

    I’m having trouble finding these kind of eBay ads on Commission Junction. Where are they. Are they the ones that you cannot get directly from CJ, but have to sign up on eBay for?

    BTW, I had the same problem as Mike: I’m a U.S. corporation, but my corporate credit card statements are sent overseas. The eBay people suggested I set up an individual account first and then convert it to business — haven’t tried it yet.

  3. Good Comment?
    Mike

    I really wanted to try it, but they only allow US publishers. I never understand this policy, because my sites get mostly traffic from the US.

  4. Good Comment?
    Nick Pang

    just use eBay Developer API if you want to customize. these ads are nothing new as the APi allowed all these features already. my site display listings in a similar vertical or horizontal format using the API…

  5. Good Comment?
    JeffPosaka

    The ads seem pretty random. Do you have control over content?

  6. Good Comment?
    Ken Savage

    Think about the traffic this site gets and the type of viewer. He’s targetting SEO and SEm auctions so anyone reading this would be interested.

    Smaht.

  7. Good Comment?
    Ken Savage

    Sarcasm alert went off. guess you didnt hear it 22

  8. Good Comment?
    Pawan

    Its called modesty dude ;-)

  9. Good Comment?
    dillsmack

    The affiliate program is through CJ.
    The developer program is through eBay.
    This uses both.

  10. Good Comment?
    Tricia

    Keep in mind the demo that has alexa installed.

  11. Good Comment?
    Sinead

    doesnt get that much traffic? sarcasm?

    glad the new ads are performing well.

  12. Good Comment?
    Peter Davis

    Are they only available through CJ?

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    Chris

    Are ebay ads localised? Or do you have to geotarget each region yourself?

  14. Good Comment?
    Nick

    Hey Shoemoney:

    Do you think that they really do perform that much better, or is it just that its new and people are curious?

  15. Good Comment?
    Nick

    Hey Shoemoney, do you think that the eBay ads really performing that much higher, or do you think that -that is a result of curious readers who have never seen them before?

  16. Good Comment?
    Ron Wilson

    What form of eBay ads are you using? Is it based upon a keyword?

  17. Good Comment?
    Miha

    How do this ads work? Is this eBay affiliate program through cj.com or what?
    I neeeeeed them!!! ;-)

  18. Good Comment?
    Hone Watson

    I’ve never been understand Alexa rankings.

  19. Good Comment?
    Entrep

    Dang man, it’s like it’s impossible for you not to make money!

  20. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    #22 – Sarcasm!

    Shoe do you think it fluctuates because some people buy stuff one day and not another or due to item prices or both?

  21. Good Comment?
    Nana

    The really cool thing about the ebay affiliate program is that you get to see what people actually purchased after clicking the ad.

    It would be interesting to know if people are actually bidding on the auctions featured or on other stuff.

    Have you run the reports to analyze this info yet?

  22. Good Comment?
    Michael Webster

    According to Alexa, your little blog is more popular than the government agency which regulates this industry.

    Thought that you might like to know.

  23. Good Comment?
    Dr G

    Instead of Mad Money with Kramer, we’ll have Ad Money with da Shoe

    drop me a line when your ready

  24. Good Comment?
    22

    how do you say your site doesnt get much traffic when its a 2k alexa and ranked #60 most popular blog

    http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/

  25. Good Comment?
    Dr G

    Sweet! I’m just waiting for:

    finance.shoemoney.com, Investing your search dollars for college fund.

    You da man buddy

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