Jon: Mostly American traffic, targeting younger kids who probably haven’t signed up to Ebay before. All organic.

Garrett: They both work wel for different types of sites. You’re more likely to build a site FOR the CJ program since you can integrate your coding with the API & build stores around niches. Auctionads is very much more lets put these on a site & see what they do. You do have the added advantages as laid out above & also the instant higher payout threshold.

How are the EPCs with AuctionAds vs. running direct with eBay via CJ? Did you notice an increase? Perhaps your EPC #’s are muddy b/c of the click issue mentioned above, but do you have a gut feel for which one brought in more $$ for you?

I’ve been an eBay affiliate for over a year now (small volume guy) and was thinking about testing AuctionAds. My major concern is with the targeting. With eBay, I did some PHP coding and have dynamic ads which I have decent control over. Basically, I pass eBay a unique set of keywords for each page of my site (the eBay ad adjusts based upon how its search engine matches my words). Does AuctionAds have anything like this? I hate programs that make me specify “general” categories/themes which undoubtedly result in random, untargeted ads.

FYI, I haven’t just tested AA myself since I put a decent amount of time into my eBay ad system. It’ll be fairly laborious for me to make a switchover since I’m not a PHP expert and complete most of my customization by trial/error method.

Thanks.