I truly like this site http://www.pixel2life.com. It gets some huge traffic and the ad placement is excellent. This site can easily be making 5k a day, can this be the mysterious 5k a day site?
1) they're breaking the terms of service 2) stop assuming there's "the" 5K a day site. hundreds of sites make that much, quite possibly thousands.
What is wrong with assuming something. Its not like i said its making that much, i just said it might be. Also, that site has been using YPN ads for months and YPN has not said anything to them. And please don't tell me its because they haven't seen it.
what I meant was you shouldn't assume there's only one site out there making that much with YPN. don't set your sights that low-- lots of people pull that amount off. regarding the TOS violation: maybe they're looking the other way, maybe they haven't noticed, maybe they're cloaking, who knows, but that doesn't change the fact that it is against the TOS and most sites can't get away with that.
That is a beautiful site..I love it the colors and the layout best I have seen in a long time. The ads on the middle are somewhat deceptive. It is borderline compliant with TOS.
It's good blending and layout. If the site owner used images of e.g. bikini-clad models next to the ads, then it would be a TOS violation. The images being used are extremely generic and are not deceptive. I'm no Y! employee; it's just my opinion.
they are deceptive even if they don't have bikini models-- it gives the illusion that you can vote on that like regular content when you obviously can't. it'd be easy to make it comply, all they'd need is a small seperator between the ads and the graphics
Yes, it is always better to be safe than sorry. If it were up to me, I would make the ad unit bgcolor different from the page bgcolor to be on the safe side. That's what I do with some of my sites.
very nice site. i doubt they make 5k per day. way too many other things to click on. this site is not designed for ypn, the site is designed for its visitors (the way it should be). looking at the pr, backlinks and stats i would guesstimate that it gets alot of traffic and that traffic goal is not meant solely to click on ads. the site obviously has a purpose for its visitors (again, how it should be). however, they are clearly violating tos - no question about it. i doubt that ypn "looks the other way". i have gotten the "obscuring" email on more than one of my major sites. ypn doesnt look the other way for anybody. its only a matter of time before someone gets around to it. speaking of looking the other way, while you have pointed out an amazing looking site - you have probuably also doomed them to that same email. ypn monitors these forums. if that were my site, i would be pissed as all hell that you linked it to a ypn forum (or any forum for that matter), exposing my site, my ypn code, my niche, etc. if i wanted to promote my site, i would do it myself (not that that site needs promotion - they got their act together). besides fueling your awe, i dont see why you would expose another publisher and put them at risk of being suspended, or worse yet, exploited till termination. once again, the very reason i never would tell a single person here (or anywhere) any of my site urls. jmo
agree completely. a lot of small publishers like to believe things are so much easier for the big guys-- it usually isn't quite as extreme as you'd think. I'm a fairly big publisher with YPN and they still email/call me whenever a minor TOS violation comes up.
Pixel2life is pretty famous on the graphics tutorials niche and it makes way more than 5k, belive me, maybe around 10~20k
In response to Karagold, I only pointed to this site because of my question nothing else. I didn't even know they were violating the tos with those very clear images. And we can't even say there violating the tos until YPN says so. My opinion is that YPN lets them because i visit this site daily and they have had this ad placement for months or maybe more then a year and YPN has not said anything to them. And i know for a fact that YPN has seen this site, i mean come on YPN checks all the sites, that's why sometimes we receive emails from them regarding our site.
exactly why ypn declares that a violation of tos. (not that i personally care that they are violating tos - unlike others) i have sites of this calibur and i have gotten the ypn email regarding images next to ads and other tos violations. it took them long enough to get around to me, but they did. they get around to everyone eventually. jmo
graphics tutorials is not an especially high paying niche. I've got sites that generate more traffic than Pixel2Life that don't generate 5K a day, and I've got sites that get little traffic that generate a ton. how popular a site is doesn't neccessarily have a tremendous amount to do with how much they make. YPN has stated numerous times in numerous channels that what they're doing is against the TOS. the only way it wouldn't be is if they have a seperate TOS from the rest of us-- which is possible but unlikely. I have sites more popular than theirs and I don't get special treatment, and neither do popular sites my friends own.