Yahoo Publisher Network Terminates More Publisher Accounts

while reading my rss i came across this article which talks about yahoo terminating publisher accounts because they were found using MySpace to send traffic to their ‘legitimate’ website which has YPN. The thrust of the reason given to them for the termination was that the traffic being sent was not of a ‘high enough quality’ and myspace mostly consists of click-friendly teens thus causing click frauds. couple of months back few accounts were terminated because they were having lot of international traffic(don't know what Yahoo meant by THAT!)
All this account termination has scared me and I have decided not to spend any more of my time and energy in ypn.

 

What IS "MySpace"?

 

Jack, can you post or link to the article? thanks!

 

MySpace is a site that YPN uses to update publishers as to when YPN will go International.

 

i hope that's a joke...

 

LOL that's pretty funny

 

You're either hilarious or clueless. Either way, I laughed so hard I nearly split my side. Green for you.

 

Yes it was a joke.... i_am_dhaval asks at least twice a week when YPN is going to be in India. Also he wanted to know which bank the YPN check was issued. Fishy....

 

dang doesnt make me feel good lol

 

here are two links that talk about this issue

problogger
and Adjab

 

Thanks, but I wouldn't consider those "articles"...they just refer back to these forums.

 

I dont think u can transfer as people that have been banned would be trying to get good standing accounts transfered.

 

Thats totally different case xboxundone. You can do nothing with banned account. Even if you can transfer YPN account(which is not possible as far as I know) then also it would not make it active, would it?

 

This is totally wrong, YPN won't ban anyone who has posted URL on MySpace. They ban for the massive amount of international traffic. Therefore, publishers ought use GeoIP included my sites

 

ofcourse YPN won't banner everyone who use MySpace, but poor quality of traffic is the reason given behind such bans. I personally would remove ads from my site if huge number of visitors start coming to my cite with very less click through ratio because if i don't remove the ads then I would also end up with rest of banned publishers, and I DON'T want that to happen.

 

If you have an account in a company name and TAX ID, and you sell the company... it would no longer be 'your' YPN account if you no longer own the company... rihgt? You wouldn't even be changing the Payee, I'm pretty sure this isnt a problem. Someone should ask YPN about it if they are really trying to buy websites using YPN accounts.

 

YPN TOS

"You may not assign, resell, or delegate this Agreement or any of your rights or duties under this Agreement, even if you sell or transfer Your Site and/or Your RSS Feed(s). Any attempted assignment, resale or delegation will be void."

 

rofl

thanks for a good laugh. i needed it tonight

 

YPN Blog comments on threads like this:

http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/05/04/maintaining-a-quality-network/

Good response in my opinion. It pretty much sums up what a lot of us have already said, but it is good to hear it from the official team. It is a good, short, to the point read.

 

I personally find it to lack any real details on how the judge the quality becasue if its solely on numbers then the system is flawed.