Um, Yahoo, this is 2006...

I know I'm missing something obvious here, but I was looking where to report a site in violation of the TOS, and when reading their Terms of Service, the bottom says:

Hahaha...let me just dip my feather-pen in my ink-well here and get started.

(And don't say you can fax coz that's only moderately better than mailing.)

 

lol, lets report some

 

Most official legal issues are handled via certified mail, that way you wead out a bunch of false reports, cause most kids wont go through the time of writing up a document and sending it via mail.

 

slava's point is probably exactly what they were thinking. I think in today's world e-mail is just too unreliable for major things...

 

Yeah, I agree slava.

The amount of reports you would get in would take a lot of man hours to investigate. They probably would rather loose a little money then pay someone to investigate all of the claims they would get via email.

Plus, I think they rely more on conversion rates and investigate sites that are not converting.

- Compu

 

YPN is so far behind Adsense in just about everything except high CPC (and even that is understandable; they're giving away the store to lure away publishers from Adsense). Is it any wonder they are just now trying to catch up, while Adsense has been on the ball for years now?

Answer: Adsense is full of forward thinking innovators; YPN is full of prehistoric dinosaurs that take 5 days to move an inch, if at all.

It's a good thing they have high CPC...

 

lol

The one thing I don't like about advertising through Yahoo is when your balance runs out they call you to let you know. Even when I tell them to stop, they kept calling.

 

YPN is in beta. Did you forget?

 

They've been in beta for NEARLY ONE YEAR. There is no excuse for their slow reactions to obvious things that needs to be fixed.

 

they have been in beta for over a full year now.

 

lol its almost unbelievable that you still need to write to them via post.

 

I think it's getting closer to a year and a half if not longer.

 

I stand corrected. But yup, they really are sloooooooooooooooooooooow.

 

nice avatar btw

 

You can call them on the phone.

 

And no stupid, random invalid click terminations.

 

Yes, it's too easy to e-mail - and how do they know you are who you say you are.

 

Google has a whole e-mail setup dedicated to reporting TOS violations for AdSense sites...that's the point I'm getting at.

 

You should not be worrying about other sites, what they are doing, how jealous you are of them, their owners, and their traffic. If you have a legit issue and you are an advertiser that is concerned - you should spend the $ and send a certified letter reporting the site that is breaking the TOS. If you're making legal threats via email you're a joke...

 

Let me explain for those who don't understand how PPC and contextual advertising works...when sites exploit advertisers, the quality goes down and so do the bids. When bids go down, everyone is effected. There's a lesson for ya.