coosblues - 12:11 am on Oct 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

I don't think it's intentionally a sham, but I have to agree that the ad targeting just doesn't work. I too gave the crawlers plenty of time to get the ads right, but after months I've just about given up. I have a tourism site and was being served marketing ads although that's not what I asked for - err. I've removed almost all of my YPN ads and went back to Adsense. It not only looks bad for Yahoo, but it surely doesn't give your visitors a good impression.

On a side-note I got a phone call last week asking me if I wanted to become an advertiser. I explained to the rep. just how bad the ad targeting was and he said "that's not my department - you need to call them". Well, I won't be buying any ad space because my tourism site's ads would most likely end up on a tech site. I plan on running a few YPN ads until I get my check and then I'm thinking of closing the door.

Don't feel alone.