Has anyone who was dropped from the program received a check for the remaining earnings? And if not how long have you been waiting?
I got dropped on December 20th. I have not received a check or status update for November's earnings, because my earnings are "under review". However, the earnings for November have disappeared from the Available, Pending, and Total Balances. It still shows up under the "Performance Report" for November, however. Additionally, my Pending and Total Balances reflect my December earnings (before I got kicked out). I'm watching those, and my Payment Report like a hawk.
grant, can I ask approximately what % of your traffic is non-US? And which countries are they from? And approximately how much did you earn in November? Just trying to find common denominators to see why and who they're banning.
Ok, why not? 48% from Singapore. 20% US. Everyone else is 4% each or less. Phillipines, Canada, the UK, Malaysia, and Australia are 3-4% each. Together they account for ~11.5k uniques per day and over 360k pageviews per day. I'm not going to publicly publish how much I made in November, but it was, ahem, significant.
They state that the largest percentage of your site(s) traffic must be from the U.S. states, otherwise you are violating the TOS and will probably be booted from the program. If only 20% is from the U.S. mainland, then it's a wonder you lasted this long.
bluegill_catcher, they don't state that anywhere in the TOS or anything. They *do* say that you shouldn't serve *any* ads to international users AND that they will pay you for all clicks that are from the US. To me this meant that they would do the filtering for me. Since I got kicked out, I've heard from multiple people that the rule is a "substantial" amount of international traffic, which is *not* what the TOS says. But, whatever. keikor, I am "kicked out", but I can still login and check my stats, payment history, etc. But if I put the ad code on my pages, they won't serve ads.
grant, same story here.... i`m waiting like a hawk to see if they will send the money. Anyway , when they closed my account they told me that will do recalculations and adjustments and they did ;( . Half of the revenue earned in 2 months went back to the advertisers and belive me ... it was a big revenue. anyway , i`m waiting for the revenue that remained into my account. i hope they don`t recalculate that too. keikor : yes, they let you enter into your account if they banned you. i think they`ll reopen the accounts that were closed for this issue when YPN will go international.
4forumsID: Where did you see the adjustments? Was it in the Performance Report, or your Pending, Available, and Total Balance numbers on the main page?
Hehe , something that i don`t understand happened . I will explain everything and for this i will need some numbers, which i underline that i use them only for explanation and they do not represent the actual revenue or income of my banned account: So: They closed me on 20 dec . on 20 i had income from november and december 100 (50 november and 50 december) (i underline, this is just a number and it`s not the number from the account). So those 100 were right in the "total balance". ok , everything fine . Now in january 2006 i was on the point of receiving the november check but instead of receiving the check i received a big "strike" --- total balance : 50 instead of 100 and pending balance : -50. At that point i assumed that they adjusted the entire 'total balance' and took from my account half of the revenue. So no money in january. Now i`ll wait money from december BUT .... (and here is what i don`t understand) ... all january i had 50 in total balance. today seems like they looked over my account and made some changes in there . So right in this moment i have : total balance 56 (i don`t know where those 6 appeared) .... Pending balance: 50 (the number i had in there all january) AND Available Balance: 6 (that misterious number that appeared from heaven). I hope i`m not dooing something wrong that i say all this and i hope it`ll help you finding about the status of your banned accounts. If i`m dooing something wrong please tell me to edit this post. I really don`t want to loose the revenue remained (if they intend not to adjust again). advice me
Holy crap. Something very similar happened to me, and I got to the end of your post, went and checked, and yep, they've updated me. So I think I am getting something. Hurray!
Yes , we`re definetly gettin` something , but from a decent revenue to get under 10% it`s quite outraging. After all we phisically sent our visitors to the advertisers through YPN program . We didn`t just lost good % of income, we lost daily visits too (and for nothing) .if i knew i would have made advertisement to some other website ....for free , rigth ?