Auction Ads (eBay)

[gamiziuk]

Just ran across this one:

http://www.auctionads.com/

You enter keywords, and ads will be created for you from those keywords, using eBay products. Most of the same sizes that Adsense uses are available. You have control over various colors (border, background, etc.)

My best guess it that the ads should be compatible to use alongside Adsense, as long as you display them slightly differently (different color or put a border around them).

YPN will probably say "no", as they have been quite uncooperative.

Company is somewhat US-centric, however, they say that you can apply as a publisher if there is an eBay presence in your country.

[trealm]

Playing around with this as we speak. It's got a long way to go from what I can tell! You'd think you'd be able to use the same sort of sieve that Ebay has for describing categories but that does NOT work. I tried using the terms Ebay has for a major category (over 2000 items) and it reported 0 items. I tweaked it a bit and came up with 227 items, but all that was showing in the example (and on my page when I copied the code) were AUTOMOBILES for sale. My category was about as different from cars as you can get.

If you could select which Ebay category you wanted the items to be displayed from this thing would be golden, as it is, it's more like rusted brass...still going to keep working with it, though.

[gamiziuk]

I agree - targeting is a bit off.

I just emailed them and asked if they could give publishers the ability to pick BOTH an eBay category and keywords. I have one site that focuses on Real Estate, but when I put in "Florida real estate, Florida homes, Florida land" etc. I get ads other than real estate. If I could choose the eBay Real Estate category, then insert keywords for "Florida" or whatever geographic area my page is about, I probably would get better ads.

I also suggested they develop something like a Google Adlinks unit, which has been very successful for me.

[seoidiot]

Its Jeremy's (Shoemoney) - i havent tried it but it describes itself as none contextual so i think even with a kw entered the targetting will blow

[wwwSENSERELYcom]

I'm using it on several sites and using a few keywords sitewide, it works fine.
I've not yet tested in a blog where i'd use the poss' tagging for the auctionads' keywords.