I am giving YPN a spin as opposed to Adsense, and I was just wondering: How long does it takes for the earnings to stabilize? I have had it up for a few hours and have only seen about 2 dollars, as opposed to several dollars with Adsense. I am sure that patience may be required, but I am a complete noob with YPN. Thanks.
Someone here said that YPN only pays you for clicks for the US (still not sure if this info is correct). Must have something to do with that if your traffic is mostly international.
I am geo targeting, serving YPN! to US, Adsense to the rest. And you cannot see how many clicks you recieved in YPN? edit: I see that you can when you run the report ...whoops :I
I honestly wouldn't jump ship yet either ... I have YPN running on many sites and some subject matters work better than others. For example, I opened up an automobile related website that was making around $.50-$1 per click via Adsense ... and I thought if I put YPN on this site then I should be making a lot more ... well ... it dropped to about 7-15 cents per click. So after 3 days, I removed YPN and went back to AdSense. However for some of my other sites, YPN pays 10x per click than AdSense ... so in other words, check your subject matter and then setup ad targeting for that topic/subject matter (or a related one) and then see how your earnings are.
Are you getting relevant ads yet? If there isn't enough ads for your field, and it's serving generic credit card ads, then you might want to return to Adsense. If you're not getting relevant ads, have you used their ad targeting? That seems to help a bit.
I set up targeting and I am getting relevant ads. In fact, some ads are shown twice at times. I guess better that then generics. My Adsense was just getting back to normal when I switched, lol. I think that I should keep it for a week to get a real feel for it, but it's hard not to pull the trigger when you don't get the expected performance.
That's interesting. I'm actually almost tripling my earnings with an auto site using YPN instead of Adsense. The problem with using Adsense is smartpricing lowers your earnings tremendously.
I went back to Adsense. Every time I looked at the stats all I could see was lost rev. But upon review of the previous days YPN stats, I see the RPC more than doubled. Perhaps in another day or two it would have been to where it should have. In any case, I wrote Yahoo becasue of their image/ad policy for approval and they suggested a change anyway, so I have to get it up to snuff in the meantime.
As I recall, YPN is very strict about the image next to ads technique -- as in, they don't like it at all. Is that what they told you?
They told me that a border would suffice in my case. At first they told me that policy is that (images near ads)it is not allowed, PLUS I needed a border. I asked them to clarify and they said that a border would suffice in my case. Works for me.