let us know how it turns out. I was actually thinking that same thing after looking back at my past history on a few of my other sites
Yep, horrible. Not only that, but I'm not showing all ads for some reason...only 2 are showing up in my 160x600 and 1 is showing up in my 336x280. :-\
Glad to know I'm not the only one... I wonder if Yahoo is making some adjustments, maybe tweaking their system. Whatever they did, I hope they restore it back to what they had before because this is terrible.
My earnings yesterday were cut by 2/3rds. Still extremely high compared to other ad networks though. We'll see if it goes back up today.
The lowering of payouts is long overdue for YPN. They have been over-paying in my opinion since they started.
Mine are up with the exception of one site. Its clicks have dropped from 20 to 25 to 2 to 6. Which is strange since the ads are very relevant to the site.
Why have they been overpaying? Because Google underpays so much? YPN is probably giving us between 30 and 70%....seems to vary quite a bit based on length of time using YPN, type of site, etc. But I don't see why paying us 50% is overpaying us. Google is the biggest rip off though...I have a site that gets 1000 clicks, and I make between $40 - $80/day from it. 4 - 8 cents a click....considering their system is supposed to pull out the highest paying ads, I should be getting AT LEAST 15 cents a click for the type of site I have. But that's another forum. The point is, YPN is giving us what we should be getting. Google just extremely underpays us.
WoW that is low. Considering the number of clicks you would hope to be getting the higher average. I agree with you on google, lately they have been paying extremely low in many categories. This was the reason for my switch to YPN. Got tired of the 4 cent clicks. I recieve lower CTR now, but much higher payout overall so it was a good move for me. So YPN will have its off days, but you guys have to consider the overall payout compared to what you might have gotten with Google.
The bad part is this, with YPN's crappy targeting, that same site would get me a LOT less clicks...so even though Google is paying me like 7 cents a click, I'm making more with it than YPN because of the ad relevancy (just for that particular site....overall, YPN blows Adsense away)
YPN's advertiser base in your sites niche must be real low. That does suck. I could only imagine what you would make with those kind of results on YPN.