Since the last push of panama I can't seem to get any relevant ads. I mean everyone knows it's been bad in the past but this is really bad. I took a 50% decrease in revenue since this last update. Are others experiencing this same thing? thanks.
My ctr has gone from 0.6 to 0.1%. My CPC has gone from about $0.75 to $0.30 Huge decrease in earnings for me - its terrible....
You're all seeing less RPC? Personally my relevancy is pretty terrible, but my CTR hasn't gotten any worse, (at 0.0% to begin with, it couldn't get any worse). My RPC, however, has increased about 200-400%.
remember when ypn had that recent publisher survey about what ads to serve? ever since then, they have spammed their ad blocks with trash ads that aren't relevant to the page content.
I've actually done better over the past week, thanks in part to a new theme that I added to my blog and better placement of the ads. Yes, I admit that I haven't gotten a check from Yahoo! in months as I am only making a pittance. Still, things are looking up and February should be the month I make enough chump change.
I have always complained about the totally irrelevant and retarded ad-targeting with YPN - even with their wonderful "Site Targeting" turned on.. A few months ago i turned the site targeting off and didnt even notice a difference. Earlier in the week i turned site targeting back on and to my surprise it actually worked! For the last few days i have been enjoying semi-relevant ads! The CTR is very low (i'm only showing YPN in my forum) - but even Adsense CTR is low in my forums - but my RPC is about double what my Adsense was for ads in the same area.. For this first time since i've used YPN, i'm actually fairly happy with it.
been a YPN publisher for over a year..making great money...and while there have been times when revenue went down this last week, it really tanked...I've always done well with site targetting...but then the ads went crazy and the rates went down from $1.00 or more to .25 over the span of 5 days. Maybe not all the advertisers are caught up yet....I pulled YPN and am experimenting with adsense site targetting...and a few other CPM . contextual networks...hopefully I'll retry Yahoo again in a week or so, maybe things will have been fixed...or maybe they are fixed and part of the fix was making it so I couldn't target high paying ads to my customers? My customer seemed to like them though...otherwise why would they click on them?
the ads are never relevant, even after YPN called and they tried to tweak them for me. I went back to adsense now that I can use adsense and a couple other contextual publishers on the same page.