17 Clicks, Bounce Rate:100%, Time Spent on Site: 0:00 Seconds

This is the stats I got from google analytics for today. Over the pass 3 day, any traffic I get from yahoo has a bounce rate of over 97% (over 70 clicks and majority of the clicks came from websites that only contain ads). This is the first time I ever used yahoo so I'm not sure if this is normal or not. Worst of all, yahoo automatically charged my CC for another $30 without my consent (I still had $45 dollars left on my account).

 

I would not be happy or impressed with the stats at all. I am suprised the sites where just sites with ads and nothing else. Does not sound good to me.

 

Yes, I was truly not happy with the situation. One thing I can say about Yahoo is that they have excellent customer service. I email Billing 2 hours ago and I received a reply already. They are going to reverse the CC charge. As soon as Yahoo finally bans these template site with just Ad like Google did, I will be coming back.

 

Hi

You will get a high bounce rate and low visitor time if your traffic only visit one page, to see accurate statistics visitors need to visit more than one page because analytics has no way of measuring the time spent on a single page. So really your stats are false if you are sending traffic to a single page.

 

Sorry for the newbie question but does that mean that if a visitor visit only one page, the Time Spent on Site will show 0 seconds?

 

Yes I believe it will - you might be able to find out more from the help sections within analytics.

 

Yahoo has the ability to charge your account without your consent. If your balance drops below your 3 day average click charge, it automatically charges you that amount. That is why I typically contact customer support and ask to have my payment plan switched. That way you can add funds whenever you want, and you will never be charged without doing it manually.

 

Unfortunately it seems as if a lot of the MFA sites that have been kicked out of AdSense have moved over to YPN. As a result, I find I get a lot of junk clicks from pure ads sites coming from Yahoo.

Fortunately you can use their blocked domain feature to stop them once you know who they are. It's a bit of a pain though to have to manually check your logs all the time. Hopefully Yahoo will turn up its enforcement so that they have far fewer MFA sites in their network.