A friend of mine wanted to give some affiliate marketing a whirl so I suggest he try Auction Ads.
He runs an Australian Defence News site that gets between 70 - 130 unique visitors per day.
Auction Ads allows you to embed live ebay auction listings in your web pages and then get paid a share of the revenue generated from that auction. I quote from the FAQ: When your site’s visitors click on an Auction Ad listing and take an action on eBay you earn cash. Actions are defined as a Winning Bid, a Buy-it-Now or a confirmed user registration.
It will be interesting to see how much he makes in 3 months. I’ll update this post on the 4th November 2007.
The sign up process was very straighforward as was the ad creation. Just select the ad style, customize the colours, select your keywords and away you go.
Keyword selection can be problematic depending on your niche. I had originally chosen the word “navy ” as one of the keywords. Unfortunately navy is a very popular colour for many items on ebay. I removed that word and replaced it with RAN (Royal Australian Navy).
The only technical problem I had was getting the code to work in the Mambo content management system. I finally worked out I had to turn off the WIZIWIG editor in the global options for the javascript not to get screwed up. I also had to put <center> tags around the code to make it look balanced.
The other problem I had was in using the banner facility in Mambo. I had to settle on a half-banner because the javascript put in a space under the banner when the page was viewed in FireFox.
Here’s a sample ad (and I’ve throw a blog related ad in the header of this page) :
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