ShoppingAds Not Working For Me

Not sure what's happening with ShoppingAds, this is an offshoot of AuctionAds. No ads have appeared on my blogs for two days.

I've been to their website and even there, where they indicate there should be a 'live ad', there's nothing on display.

To check further I tried to create another set of ads to see what would happen. Where there should be a 'live ad preview' nothing appears.

Things like this annoy me. If there is a problem you would think a message would appear on their site or emails would be sent out to members - it's basic business manners. (Or perhaps this is all just happening to me!)

I didn't think much of AuctionAds and now I think even less of ShoppingAds. I'm about to remove all of their ads from my blogs.

Like probably many people I initially had an email from their president, Patrick Gavin, asking me to join ShoppingAds. Part of the email said:

'Mike, as a previous user of AuctionAds I wanted to send you a private invite to our new ShoppingAds product! ShoppingAds is a cost per click ad product powered by the major shopping comparison sites.

Now you are probably wanting to email me right back and ask, "Why should I try ShoppingAds when I had such hit and miss success with AuctionAds?" The answer is because ShoppingAds is a cost per click product with predictable earnings. So you send the traffic and get paid for every click! AuctionAds is a CPA (cost per action) product so earnings were very unpredictable for many publishers. Also, ShoppingAds is built on a very stable platform and the ads are serving lightning fast! '

I guess there's no lightning about at the moment.

Other than this it's been a good week blogging wise for me. I've received over $600 in payments i.e. cash into my bank. Also traffic for the week, as I previously mentioned, has been incredible - though it was all a bit of a freak - 40,000+ in a day! But I don't care how the hits arrive, I'll leave that to the purists.

Good luck,
Mike.

Money Making Updates: Voxant, WidgetBucks, ShoppingAds

A few readers have been following my progress with Voxant, the News feed opportunity, and have been asking if I've been paid as yet. Afraid the answer is no.

I emailed them yesterday to clarify their payment procedure. I joined on September 24th and to date I've earned $256.27 but I prefer to recommend money making programs after I have received payment.

I was very impressed with the speed of their reply to my email, even if it wasn't quite the answer I was hoping for.

It seems they have got two differing time scales for payment printed on their website. The first, and the one I read, states: 'You'll receive your check within 30 days following the last day of the month in which it was earned.' According to this I should receive the September payment by the 30th of October - at least that's how I understand it.

In their reply, however, they write: 'We actually process the checks at the end of the following month which is part of our payment process. If you made the $50 threshold minimum in September your check will be processed at the end of this month and you will receive your check at the beginning of next month.' So that is slightly different.

They also sent me an attachment, with the email, that they require completing and returning to them by fax, or mail, prior to them being able to send out any checks. The form, something called a W-8, is for taxation purposes.

I'll keep you informed regarding actual receipt of any payment as I know a few bloggers have also joined Voxant.

Moving on to ShoppingAds, which I mentioned on Tuesday. Early days but it hasn't exactly gone down a storm as yet.

I've been trying out their ads (see side column) as a trial. To date I've had 3717 page impressions which has resulted in only 1 click giving earnings of 26 cents. So not too impressive so far. I'm not convinced as to the possible success with such ads unless you have a blog that has a specific, defined, niche. If the blog is about photography, for instance, then camera ads would do okay but with a money making or personal blog I'm not so sure.

Moving on again. I'll be doing my own trial on WidgetBucks hopefully next week - unless, that is, I make a bundle with ShoppingAds! I've joined WidgetBucks because they are offering $25 for signing up. This means you only have to 'earn' $25 to make $50, which can't be bad.

That's it for today.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Money Making With AuctionAds

Today I'm continuing with programs I have tried to make money with. Today it's still another 'A' - AuctionAds.

AuctionAds started out fine for me the first month but it's gone downhill ever since as far as I am concerned. So much so that I have now erased all of their ads from my blogs. The main faults were:

(a) Ads not always appearing on the blogs - not the best way to make money!
(b) Hardly any clicks - so not worth devoting space to them (less than 0.08% this month)
(c) I wasn't happy with their accounting stats. Can't comment on this further as I don't have any proof.

I persevered with AuctionAds for three months, so it was a fair trial. I can't therefore really recommend them now to others but ...

Probably like a lot of other people I had an email from their President, Patrick Gavin (I do love fancy titles!), about their new program ShoppingAds and, as you will see, I'm trying them out in the side column. It will only be a short trial as I've promised that I'll have a go with WidgetBucks soon (I'll give full info on WidgetBucks once I start but at the moment there is a $25 bonus for joining). ShoppingAds will have to give a promising return quickly for me to keep it on my blogs.

To Sum Up
AuctionAds: Mike's Rating: 1/5

ShoppingAds: Will let you know how it goes after about a week.

WidgetBucks: More info to follow.

Good luck,
Mike.

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