I’ve just set up a few test sites with a new alternattive to using AdSense called Auction Ads which looks interesting.

They take longer to set up as they are not as “context sensitive” as AdSense.

You can put in some keywords for the ads, but they seem better if you put in keywords that are specific to the subject of the page they’re on, so they’re certainly not as quick and easy to set up as AdSense, but they could be a viable alternative/addition.

They’re based on showing auctions from ebay, so it’s basically the ebay affiliate program that it’s using.

I’ve added the ads to thwo sites that are reasonably mature and get some traffic, so I should have an idea of how well they perform in a week or so and I’ll be posting the results here as usual..