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The World Famous Shoemoney has released his new ebay referral program to the world called AuctionAds (click authenticate then login/pass is aa/bb). He had previously released a project called ShoeMoneyAds that was basically the same thing, an interface for the ebay affiliate api. In this previous incarnation, you input your PID that CJ gives you when you sign up for the ebay affilaite program and shoe just served ads using your pid. In AuctionAds, no pid is necessary and it looks like shoe pays you directly via paypal. Interesting, but he (like adsense), does not disclose the % of payout. Cool tool for non developers or lazy people, but you can get the full amount by going with CJ and the ebay api. I am trying it out on our BitTorrent Tracker Links page.

update: Here are some stats from yesterday (has to glance at auction ads tos to see if this was legal). I have been running this only on the page referenced above, yesterday we had 2487 impressions and 4 clicks with a CTR of 0.16% and $0.00 in revenue. I had used the keywords of “hdtv;xbox360;wii;dvd” but after looking at Shoemoney’s blog I have switched them to “laptop;dell;gateway;geek” (higher priced items == bigger commissions?).

Shoemoney blogged about the opening of AuctionAds

Arrington says “AuctionAds says they’ll pass 100% of eBay affiliate fees (paid on new eBay user registrations and a percentage of sales) on to publishers for an interim period. Since eBay pays sliding fees based on the total business generated by the affiliate (which in this case is AuctionAds), eventually AuctionAds will be able to skim some fees off the top while still promising to pay sites at least as much as they’d earn as a direct affiliate.”

Funny that Shoe hasn’t said that yet…

There are also a couple threads at Digitalpoint on the topic

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