Hello, I read in this forum...that yahoo takes 5 working days to activate a YSM account. Is it true? Whats the current status of activating a account in YSM?
Immediately after payment my account was active, my campaign was active within 1 hr and keywords also approved immediately. I guess if your ad has some restricted keywords then it may take more time or if your payment method has some issues then also it may take more time.
I know it does vary, a few years ago when I joined As the overture service it tooks days, but I know a few new advertisers that had ther account activated in just a few hours, Either way it's worth it
My account was activated immediately, but my campaigns were not. I was surprised that, unlike Google, my account was limited to one country. If you want to advertise in the UK and the USA/Canada, you have to have two accounts. Yahoo is quite limited and there are only a dozen countries supported, unlike Google, which supports 230+ and allows you to promote your ads in any or all of them. Having set up a simple campaign, I found that the ad was not approved immediately. I waited a couple of hours, and still no approval. After 24 hours and still no ad running, I sent an e-mail. A couple of hours later, someone responded and said it was in the queue and would be looked at in a day or two. I find that unacceptable. This was a simple ad for a 6-pack ab product, not porn, not anti-religious, not sexual in content, not promoting child abuse, and no animals were harmed. It took a full 2 days until Yahoo approved the ad. The click cost was higher than Google's... 36 cents compared to 17 cents for the keywords I chose. There was a limit of 50 keywords. I set up a second ad, and again, it took 2 days to get approval. Meantime, I did not get the $100 advertising credit I was promised. So I phoned, and the girl said my account was marked as having the credit but it takes a few days to show up in the account. I get the distinct impression that, while the rest of the Internet world runs on pumped up steroids, Google is powered by donkeys. Everything is slow, takes days. I cancelled my account. That was 18 months ago. Recently, I signed up again, figuring things would probably have improved in 18 months. Nope. Exactly the same experience. I cancelled again. I can't believe that Microsoft offered $48 million for Yahoo... they must be out of their minds.
Thank you for sharing your ideas. I had terrible experience with Yahoo hosting. I was not sure about trying YSM as an alternative to adwords. But your post helped me a lot. I'm keeping away from Yahoo thanks,