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If you check on alltheweb and overture.com and you see your ads, those terms may have been removed from yahoo! due to some sort of filtering. I have only seen this in the Adult industry, but it may apply to yours as well.
It is not an adult site, rather an Asia related travel site for backpackers. Interestingly Yahoo has partnered with a competitor and is using their content for their travel content - this was where my adverts were appearing (aside from general search) and I was getting very healthy click-throughs there. Now they're all gone as have aderts from a couple of other travel content providers.
Strikes me that perhaps Yahoo may no longer taking adverts that run to close to their own content - disappointing if that was the case - but I certainly would have expected Yahoo/Overture to advise accordingly - so I could cancel my Overture accout ASAP...
Have contacted Overture (by email) and they advised the adverts are being displayed, however the stats don't bear this out, plus I can't see hem and friends in UK and Australia can't see them, so I feel they're not being straight with me.
Any thoughts anyone? don't suppose there's an "Overture_man" on this forum is there?
I dont think they'll take down advertisers that advertise content similar to their own. Considering the expansive portal that they have they would be ruling out a ton of business if they did this. If you can give them a call and ask them what's up, they'll respond immediately unlike email.
Any feedback?
weird and as yet, no clarification from Overture - plus can see them on msn, alltheweb and all those garbage generic serch engines they end up on - this is only happening on Yahoo.
I should add that we are in the U.S. If this is related to geo-targeting, it makes me even less interested in banking on good results from these types of programs.
Any updates from others?
When I explained I had seen them over and over again inside the Yahoo travel section, they said my ISP must have temporarily changed to a US based ISP, which, it absolute, utter and total trash.
I gave up at that point - I'll keep using Overture as I need my adverts on msn and yahoo, but as soon as a different option arises I will cancel my account - am already getting a far superior set of results from Adwords...
They suggested I sign up for another market...umm let me think about that...no thanks.
Their duplicity isn't exactly confidence building - esp after reading the post about their charges being out of whack...
