May 24 2007

AuctionAds Rotating Keywords

By Jeremy Schoemaker 17 comments

over on the AuctionAds Blog there is a post with a tip with keywords. The just of it is you can easily rotate between your keywords just by using a semi colon.

Did 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.

For example:

auctionads_ad_kw = “NHL hockey; playoffs; Stanley Cup; Anaheim Ducks; Ottawa Senators”;

This will tell AuctionAds to rotate the ads evenly, meaning on one page view will show auctions for “NHL hockey” while the next page view might show ads for “Anaheim Ducks”.

ToddW said on May 24th, 2007 at 5:16 pm

Is there a way to track which are converting best for said page? This would be something nice to see.

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Adam Dempsey said on May 24th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

Thanks for the tip, very useful

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Lee Bandoni said on May 24th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

I have a joomla plugin which I had developed which allows you to dynamiclly inset the KW on aution ads based on the page loaded. I have not used it on a live site yet but I am looking forward to seeing the results

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Jimmy Tang said on May 24th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

Now that is cool stuff!

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Lee Bandoni said on May 24th, 2007 at 6:45 pm

The WP version will be finished this week

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Saeid said on May 24th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

That is awesome, just a question thought, I made money this month (May) so does that mean I get payed the first of June?

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Darren said on May 24th, 2007 at 7:01 pm

would love to see the ability for ads to target the title of posts/pages as the keywords…. I can do this with chitika and it rocks!

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Link Snitch said on May 24th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

Great feature. I wanted this feature.

Was trying it with commas.

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How To Buy Websites said on May 24th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

Is there anyway to use negative keywords to filter out items you don’t want to appear. For instance, I would like ipods to appear, but not ipod accessories.
Is there something like “ipod -accessories” I could use?

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The Dino said on May 25th, 2007 at 6:50 am

Perfect addition, it is now more simple.

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Peter Davis said on May 25th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

ROFL, I tried this tip, and now it’s serving up Webkinz dolls to my site. WTF!!!!

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Wealth Junkie said on May 28th, 2007 at 6:32 am

Neat feature. Thanks for pointing it out.

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TylerC said on May 28th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

Thanks for the tip…. What other little goodies can you share?

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Mick said on May 30th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

This would be a nice feature if it worked on non us sites.

A UK click becomes all the keywords in ebay - nightmare.

fired off an enquiry - hopegfully this time i’ll get a reply

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Joeychgo - vBulletin Guru said on June 5th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

Great Job Jeremy - you impress me more and more with this system.

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Nick Sullivan said on September 17th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

This is one of my main loves about AuctionAds. What I would love to see next is AuctionAds keyword tracking so that you could rotate a certain number of keywords and track which ones get the best CTR sort of A/B testing with keywords.

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Wealth Base Camp said on May 24th, 2007 at 9:06 pm

I have been running AuctionAds for 1 day and was wondering that exact thing.

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