Here’s Why Auctionads Doesn’t Work For My Blog

By Jim Kukral • July 17, 2007 • Online Publishing • 5872 Comments2007-07-18+03%3A22%3A43Jim+Kukral

I can’t use Auctionads.com on this blog because it’s not contextual and there’s no relevant match for my blog. See, I write about all kinds of online marketing stuff like online video, affiliate marketing, search, branding, etc…

When you create an Auctionads ad, you are required to specify a keyword that helps you deliver a related ad. Makes a lot of sense, I get it. The problem is… what the heck do I put in for this blog?

For example, let’s try some tests. If I put in “online marketing”, I get this ad. Relevant?

If I put in “online videos”, I get this ad. Relevant?

Now, I “could” put in something like “blogging”, and then I start to actually see stuff?

Or I have to get real niche and guess what my readers might like and put in something like “business magazines”. Did that work?

I have nothing against Auctionads. No offense Shoemoney. I just don’t see how it works for this particular blog. When is someone going to invent a contextual referral system? Calling Jeff Doak.

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July 19, 2007 at 12:40 pm #

My problem with AuctionAds right now is that due to some sort of glitch it’s not showing ads for the keywords I specified for my sites. When the keywords were working right very appropriate items were shown and the click-thru was quite good. Vistors who came to my sites looking for product info loved them. But, in the past couple of weeks, the ads have been quite random and have typically been the useless default Chanel and video game listings like you show in your post.

If the ads would stay on target I think they would work well on my sites that focus on a particular product, such as programming tools and guitars. But, sadly, if the keyword problem doesn’t get corrected soon I’ll have to put up better performing ads in their place.
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July 21, 2007 at 12:47 pm #

i also fee that product ads are also limited to region specific sites like if my site cater to indian readers, many of them might feel that why do they have to click that, go through a foreign system and pay in dollars. why not just search for a similar in ebay india? also, blogs on specific services like marketing, PR, etc. do feel the same like you say.