garyr_h
msg:1575968 | 1:08 am on Oct 25, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Depends. They are still in BETA, so you never know. YPN hasn't even been in BETA for too long. However, I have noticed that my site is getting a lot better ads since about Friday (I've been a member since around September 27th). Ad targetting helped out a little and they say wait 3-4 days at least before that takes full effect (well.. that's what I was told). You get this sort of stuff happening with BETA products. It's not perfect, if it was it wouldn't be in BETA.
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nealw
msg:1575969 | 1:24 am on Oct 25, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I have been getting better results by NOT selecting one of there "target categories"... I have been beta testing for about a week. Each day targeting gets a little better, though I am still receiving a number of way off target ads as well (lots of phone ads here too).
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Edge
msg:1575970 | 2:43 pm on Oct 26, 2005 (gmt 0) |
After six days, still no on-target ads. I am sure glad I did not turn them loose on my whole site.
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krod
msg:1575971 | 8:15 pm on Oct 26, 2005 (gmt 0) |
use the targeting ad option they have, not just one for the entire site, but different for each page. That way you can get more diverse ads.
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SamOwen
msg:1575972 | 4:49 am on Oct 31, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I'm having the same problem and then some. I call my forums "message boards" and I have a forum called "photo albums". 99% of my ads are for products that have to do with boards and "photo albums"... very irrelevant. I hope Yahoo! gets a keyword feature where you can turn certain keywords off and on. I think this would save the advertisers some money too on CPM. Right now I'd like to disable the keywords "boards" and "photo albums"...
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ann
msg:1575973 | 7:42 am on Oct 31, 2005 (gmt 0) |
What they really need is to get some advertisers. Then you could show ads to the world instead of just the USA.
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garyr_h
msg:1575974 | 5:27 pm on Nov 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Ann, Overture has a wide variety of advertisers. The problem is not the selection. As for showing Ads to places outside the USA... I doubt Yahoo! would want to do that at the moment when publishers are limited to within the United States.
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frankybme
msg:1575975 | 7:49 pm on Nov 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Ann Yhaoo and Google are the 2 biggest in the game. Yahoo has more than enough ads for every topic. The proble, is they are still working on the targeting system they have. I notice sometimes its working great and then you look again and the targeting sucks. Anybody else notice this?
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garyr_h
msg:1575976 | 8:00 pm on Nov 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
frankybme, I've definately seen this across my domain. Sometimes there's even a huge difference between the ads currently shown and when pressing 'refresh'; suddenly the targetting gets better. The targetting does seem to be better than what it was a few weeks ago, however improvement must still be made.
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Edge
msg:1575977 | 10:28 pm on Nov 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I have placed YPN ads on a very keyword rich page. With that, I am seeing the same as garyr_h on targeting (good ads most of the time, somtimes better with a page refreash). Complex pages, which the subject or content is not brutally obvious to Yh, you will only get the generic ads.
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ownerrim
msg:1575978 | 10:31 pm on Nov 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
It's incredibly hard to believe that overture/yahoo pioneered any of this contextual ad technology because it sure doesn't show.
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