On Blogging Australia

There is a conversation going on over at the BUMPzee Australian Blogs Community at the moment around AuctionAds. Basically, AuctionAds works by placing contextual auction site advertisements into a widget that you can place within a blog template. Generally, people are more likely to click ads within a niche they are interested in - and I don’t have a lot of product-based content that I could tie ads to. That said, Sea Eagle says that thoughtful placement can still work in a non-product specific blog - and that there are ways to overcome the USA-specific nature of AuctionAds.

I’m trialling AuctionAds at the moment over at WiiForMii. It is the closest thing I have to a product based blog. 24 hours into the experiment and I’ve had four adviews and no clicks. Early days yet

Scott Andrew Bird gives some AuctionAds tips:

1. Set a minimum and maximum price
2. Define keywords automatically
3. Display AuctionAds alongside Adsense
4. Target a specific seller’s auctions
5. Automatically rotate your keywords
6. Use negative (‘stop’) keywords
7. Link to specific auctions

Do you use AuctionAds and make money from them? Want to share your secrets?