I had a question for the AuctionAds support team and I am pleased to say that it came back with not only a speedy answer, but a very interesting and useful one.

I asked about the criteria for getting the correct ads to display on low-traffic sites. Specifically, sites that have just been set up.

AuctionAds support explained that the default ads (What’s Hot On eBay) are displayed if your site has not had a visitor (to whom the AuctionAds ad has been displayed) within the last ten minutes.

The AuctionAds site mentions that this happens on low-traffic sites but this is the first time I have had the timing parameters confirmed, so it’s very useful information.

To avoid this problem, I created a simple page that auto-refreshes every eight minutes (which AuctionAds said was OK) so my sites satisfy the sub-ten minute criteria in their early days.

[tags]auctionads, auction ads, keyword[/tags]