So far so bad.

Okay, I'll admit I don't know what I'm doing.

I got into Yahoo's beta program. I removed AdSense from a site and put in Yahoo's stuff. Two things happened.

1. My $$ per click went up nicely.
2. My overall CTR dove like a submarine under attack.

The result is a profit loss of about 75% or so. Ewww

I'll keep playing, but I'm not impressed thus far. I put 2 blocks on a page and I've got repeating ads. Grrr

The targeting looks way off.

 

welcome to the mad house!
has been like that for months now....

 

put adense back until yahoo is out of beta

 

Yeah, I'm bailing for now. I'll put it on a few pages to keep some activity though. I don't care if EPC is higher when CTR is lower. All I care about is the amount of money put into my bank account.

 

there will be pages where adsense won't work... if you set up your adsense channels properly, you'll be able to see the low epc.

put ypn on those under-performing pages.

 

Thanks for the post marketjunction, I was considering the move myself.

I'll wait now

 

I have AdSense on many sites, so I'm looking for areas where it's not doing so hot.

Yahoo's targeted left something to be desired.

 

Heh. Exactly what we have been saying on these parts of digitalpoint for a while. I hope some international folks read this and realize it isn't something to be holding their breaths for.

 

I had to experience it for myself.

 

I wont change adsense for nothing adsense is one and only the others will just be copys without sucess.

 

nothing compared to adsense so far

 

try to contact the yahoo support and ask them to put more targeted ads on your pages.

 

LOL- yeah ok...

 

Yes, I mean it, some people have reported that they did that with great success.

 

Well, the other problem isn't Yahoo's targeted, it's advertising.

Let's say I have a site about traveling to Las Vegas. Yahoo can target my site to death, but if there aren't any or many advertisers for this target, it won't matter. I'll just get travel ads for Milan or Russia or other non-relevant stuff.

 

Guys, any idea when Yahoo will get out of beta?

 

Try Affiliate marketing, much better than adsense and yahoo.

 

Well it really depends on your website and your strategies. If you're doing PPC than go with Affiliate marketing. But if you have a blog i suggest adsense.

 

I don't know when Yahoo is coming out of beta, but their tracking and UI isn't anywhere near as good as Google.

As to affiliate marketing, you should always diversify. I can't imagine why anyone would just do AdSense or just affiliate marketing or just info sites or just anything.

Diversification is the key to everything.

 

If you dont like Yahoo then go back to Google, it's way better !