Notice they stated that you may earn less per click, but never said anything about earning more per click. The only reference I have seen to publishers making more money because of this is in their blog: "When you provide quality traffic to our advertisers, this in turn may lead to better click revenue for you." However, nothing else is stated.
I just posted a comment on YPN blog asking them to define "value for advertisers" and "poor quality traffic" I'm curious ;-)
As an advertiser, how can I be sure that Yahoo isn't giving me back 50% on "poor quality traffic" and giving the publisher 20% and keeping the other 30% themselves. I mean, who is going to monitore this?
That's like a punch in the stomach. My earining already dropped almost 10 fold. Yahoo wants to pay us when the advertiser sells the product. I wonder, if the clicks are paid on performance base, will the advertisers pay us % of the profit they make? Seems like if nobody buys their product it is our fault. Many times advertisers sell really bad products and services. I know of one advertiser real bad from azoogle. He first charges you very little, then you notice after the transaction is complete you have just subscribed to some bs membership. IMO illigal subscription. I suspect there many more like those.
"Yes.....we will see what we will see", said the blind man I am sure that Yahoo has all of our best interests at heart as they mention in the e-mail!
Best interests at heart? I didn't know it was in my interest to get a big hit in the pocket for traffic i bring to advertisers. Say you put an ad in the news paper to sell your car, but the market is slow you cannot sell it. Can you ask for a refund? Can we all "smart price" everybody we do business with if we don't get what we want even though the other party has no fault? The smart pricing surely gives a free ride to advertisers if not all the time at least 50% of the time.
They had to do SOMETHING to increase the ROI for their advertisers. Yahoo knows the technology is crap, they're trying to pick up the pieces I believe for a failed contextual debacle that actually was only good for publishers. I've never heard of ANY advertiser claiming they are having great success with YPN; Only publishers that were lucky enough to cash in while it lasted.
I agree up till tonight when YPN went NUCLEAR, , My earnings have been ok except for the last 3 days. They have stepped down. I am not sure what are "GOOD CLICKS" or how I can even monitor what my users are looking for? Cheers! Da-Chief
I guess more and more people will join pay-per-lead or pay-pay-sale affiliate programs. Why bother with pay-per-click-programs that are smart-priced, non well targeted and loosing "value" for the publishers. You can get $20 or even more by selling a real product/service you are affiliated by.