We (at least I) may be recovering from last week's horrible YPN daily stats

I really doubt it since my sites don't get much traffic...

 

Alexa ranking? Yes, I am sure that YPN would use the most easily manipulated ranking system ever designed to determine RPC. Whenever I hear anything about somebody's Alexa Ranking I want to puke, it is the most meaningless info when it comes down to the REAL popularity of a website.

I am sure that if YPN was adjusting RPC for each publisher they would be using their own data that they have been collecting.

 

well, then how can I determine the popularity of a site/?

 

this week has been brutal - but it seems that finally the revenue is coming back for me. i was down over 50% over the last 7 days. it was crazy becuase 8/3 was my best day ever.

 

Yesterday was my best day in the month. Didnt break the all time record but came damn close. If I had of had another hour I would of though.

PGZ

 

I'm still in the crapper and have moved all but one site over to adsense.

 

Awsome avatar PGZ! The Gipper was the best president, ever!

 

And how do you do that?

 

Lucky guess.

 

anyone else finding targeting broken?

 

I never thought I would be doing this, but I may be moving some more of my ads back to AdSense, maybe more if something doesn't change fast !

My YPN is falling even more, RPC, Revenue etc........ truly horible - 4 sites and lots of traffic, total revenue yesterday from all 4 combined UNDER $8.00 with YPN, I am struggling now to get above 9 cents RPC with YPN

Do you all think this is just a August (summer) curse, and things will rise a lot after schools start (Sep 5 here) ? Or has YPN just been out so long that it now leveled off to where rates (RPC) will probably stay ?

 

I am seeing a slight increase in the RPC yesterday. Hope it gets to normal soon. Still the ad targeting is a problem..

 

I'm suprised there hasn't been more widespread/mainstream coverage.....Or, have I missed something?

 

YPN has moved towards more "normal" levels. Yahoo has stopped or cut it's "promotional pricing". While I would certainly like to see a return to how it used to be, there really isn't any reason to expect advertisers to pay a vast premium over the same ad with adsense.

While August is slow, it isn't what would cause such a drastic drop in RPC. Traffic should increase next month, but RPC isn't likely to increase unless Yahoo does something to attract a lot more advertisers. I don't think this is likely and hope the RPC doesn't continue to drop.

It all depends on the advertisers. Why not run whichever program is paying more? I've moved several sites back to adsense because YPN is now paying less per click AND YPN's CTR has always been lower (due to lack of advertisers/and ad targeting).

 

I am thinking of moving to adsense too. RPC is LOW as hell, CRTR is LOW as hell, and targetting is OFF as hell.

 

Well, I have finally moved all of my sites back over to Adsense.

I hope YPN comes out of its coma soon.

 

YPN has to save more money for all the lawsuits against them...

 

August is a slow month. Spending may kick up on september when school starts and the holliday season begins.

 

I hope IamNed is right. It seems like it takes forever for september to start.

 

are you using the targeting categories?