RichTC - 12:20 am on Oct 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

Jgold,

Recently one of the webmasters we work with dropped them due to similar issues.

These were the observations:-

The stats are not in real time and often have delays which makes it harder as a publisher to track exactly what clicks from what IP they are paying you on.

They thought that where a unique user visits your site and then clicks on perhaps one advert (visits site & returns to you) then clicks on another advert that yahoo pay you once, yet charge both advertisers - hence adverts are not as effective as you might not be getting 100% of the revenue credited to you.

Some click throughs dont register because they get "conveniently missed off" call it error, call it suspect?

In all, the system was found to be poor, furthermore the client found the service from them next to dire, even with an appointed account manager they hid behind voice mail (what would they have done without it?) support was poor and continual delays in payment due to one excuse or another led to the webmaster losing confidence.

I cant say if this is typical accross the board but based on the limited feedback from webmasters we work with its not the first time we have heard variations similar to the above and it needs to be factored in when deciding who to use as a publishing partner.

It could be that the system has been modified to make it more profitable for them

Good luck