Westech
12-14-2005, 10:32 AM
I've been using YPN on my site for the past month or so with great results. I was just reading more closely through their terms and conditions, and saw that they require that none of the YPN ads be shown to non-US visitors.
I, and I suspect most publishers using YPN, wasn't aware of this and had simply put the ad code in my pages to be displayed to visitors from all countries. I called their customer service line to get more information. I got right through and they were very helpful. Here's what they told me:
--The YPN system does not do anything to filter which visitors will see the ads. They will be displayed to visitors from all countries unless the webmaster does something on their side to prevent them from being shown to non-US visitors. This is the webmaster's responsibility.
--When you log in to view your reports, the amounts for impressions, CPM, and earnings include clicks from all countries as if they were all US clicks.
--Before each check is cut, the clicks will all be audited, and you will recieve NOTHING for any non-US clicks. You will not get in any trouble or be kicked out of the network for showing YPN ads to non-US visitors, but if you have been showing YPN ads to non-US visitors this will result in your actual payment amount being less than what the YPN reports show for that month.
All in all, not a very good system. I suspect that many of the people (myself included) who have been so excited about their earnings through YPN will get an unpleasant surprise when that first check arrives.
I'm wondering now whether YPN really does perform better on my site than Adsense did, especially since Adsense will at least pay me something for my international visitors.
On the plus side, I'm extremely impressed with Yahoo's support. Calling in and getting right through to a very helpful live person is much better than waiting 3 days for a generic email response from Google.
I, and I suspect most publishers using YPN, wasn't aware of this and had simply put the ad code in my pages to be displayed to visitors from all countries. I called their customer service line to get more information. I got right through and they were very helpful. Here's what they told me:
--The YPN system does not do anything to filter which visitors will see the ads. They will be displayed to visitors from all countries unless the webmaster does something on their side to prevent them from being shown to non-US visitors. This is the webmaster's responsibility.
--When you log in to view your reports, the amounts for impressions, CPM, and earnings include clicks from all countries as if they were all US clicks.
--Before each check is cut, the clicks will all be audited, and you will recieve NOTHING for any non-US clicks. You will not get in any trouble or be kicked out of the network for showing YPN ads to non-US visitors, but if you have been showing YPN ads to non-US visitors this will result in your actual payment amount being less than what the YPN reports show for that month.
All in all, not a very good system. I suspect that many of the people (myself included) who have been so excited about their earnings through YPN will get an unpleasant surprise when that first check arrives.
I'm wondering now whether YPN really does perform better on my site than Adsense did, especially since Adsense will at least pay me something for my international visitors.
On the plus side, I'm extremely impressed with Yahoo's support. Calling in and getting right through to a very helpful live person is much better than waiting 3 days for a generic email response from Google.