Lots of yahoo ads on yahoo ads? o.O

[chris207]

If the title of this didn't confuse you I mean ads on YPN for other yahoo services, like yahoo webhosting my case.

These ads are showing up on pages not related to hosting at all.

Anyone else getting this?

[ArcticPro]

So Yahoo!'s paying to promote their own service, lol.

[d16man]

actually, that is a good form of "free advertising" for them if you think about it. They make money by clicking the links that doesn't cost them anything to post...

[chris207]

So Yahoo!'s paying to promote their own service, lol.

Assuming that they are paying for even counting those clicks...

actually, that is a good form of "free advertising" for them if you think about it. They make money by clicking the links that doesn't cost them anything to post...

I couldn't care less how they want to advertise, if they are putting these ads up they are stealing clicks from paying spots.

It also doesn't help the targeting complaints when a hosting ad shows up on an unrelated page.

[TomN]

It might be that Yahoo is using the default ad space for promoting their own services. You know, instead of showing a PSA they show their own ads that are free to them. But perhaps they pay the publisher, hopefully. If not then it's wrong. Either way, we'll never know.