Hey guys,
Well, I've experimented for a few weeks now with the new form of advertising and it's not been that successful
In fact, the only money made has been a few bucks from some Amazon.com orders, which has always brought in a bit of money each month.
The banners are pretty and all, but they have to convert to sales for them to help and that's not happening.
I may be going back to Google ads because at least they were making the site around $100 a month.
But I may be adding something else that actually HAS been converting a bit this month and none of you have even seen it yet.
I've been running a test on our Archives portion of the site, that usually people only find through search engines.
http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/archive/index.php
There is a plugin that actually looks at text on every thread and replaces some of the keywords on it with links to Ebay auctions.
Now, it seems a bit odd, but the thing is, in the last three weeks, it's gotten more clicks than anything else and actually has converted two things in the last two days.
Not only that, but the commissions on it are impressive: 50% and up of what Ebay makes on these auctions. That's pretty dang good.
The only thing I worry about is you guys of course. But what I think is that all you see is certain words linked and that's it. Nothing pops up or should be annoying.
You will just see a thread and might see the words "cardinals" or "football" linked. And it doesn't link every occurrence of the word, just once per page.
And I can also exclude stuff as well if we need to.
So that's it. I am going to run a test on it for a week and see what happens.
I think everyone loves Ebay, I know I buy stuff from it and obviously a few people from this site have also clicked on these links and won an auction or two.
It might actually be helpful to find things?
Anyways, your thoughts are appreciated and if you want to see the links in action, visit the Archive area of the site and look through some threads:
http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/archive/index.php
Well, I've experimented for a few weeks now with the new form of advertising and it's not been that successful
In fact, the only money made has been a few bucks from some Amazon.com orders, which has always brought in a bit of money each month.
The banners are pretty and all, but they have to convert to sales for them to help and that's not happening.
I may be going back to Google ads because at least they were making the site around $100 a month.
But I may be adding something else that actually HAS been converting a bit this month and none of you have even seen it yet.
I've been running a test on our Archives portion of the site, that usually people only find through search engines.
http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/archive/index.php
There is a plugin that actually looks at text on every thread and replaces some of the keywords on it with links to Ebay auctions.
Now, it seems a bit odd, but the thing is, in the last three weeks, it's gotten more clicks than anything else and actually has converted two things in the last two days.
Not only that, but the commissions on it are impressive: 50% and up of what Ebay makes on these auctions. That's pretty dang good.
The only thing I worry about is you guys of course. But what I think is that all you see is certain words linked and that's it. Nothing pops up or should be annoying.
You will just see a thread and might see the words "cardinals" or "football" linked. And it doesn't link every occurrence of the word, just once per page.
And I can also exclude stuff as well if we need to.
So that's it. I am going to run a test on it for a week and see what happens.
I think everyone loves Ebay, I know I buy stuff from it and obviously a few people from this site have also clicked on these links and won an auction or two.
It might actually be helpful to find things?
Anyways, your thoughts are appreciated and if you want to see the links in action, visit the Archive area of the site and look through some threads:
http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/archive/index.php
