I am not looking for secret niches, just general guidelines on segments. I have a variety of niches from smilies to european software. Please share if you can what areas that YPN does well. I am curious about technology and B2B areas as well as shopping, sports, and consumer electronics. Also, I'd be curious to see how it fairs in the UK, Austrailia, India, and other countries and regions. I just got accepted and am deciding where I will replace Adsense with YPN. Thanks.
There isn't a way to properly answer your question. You will just have to experiment yourself by running adsense on one page and YPN on another. YPN ad targeting can be extremely bad. It depends on how the bot reads your page and the ads it then displays. I have sites where is will not display relevant ads on one page, but will on another. Both pages are on the same topic. If your site doesn't target US visitors or gets a lot of visitors from those other countries you mentioned, you might want to stick with adsense. It can be against the TOS to run YPN on those sites, but you won't get paid for those clicks in any event. If your site targets US visitors and YPN shows relevant ads for the page, then I think you will be pleased with most sectors. I have some shopping related sites where YPN pays less PC and the CTR is much lower. I think it is because I rank very high in google and am not subject to lower smart pricing. I'm probably running around 75% YPN and 25% adsense right now, and will probably switch back a few more sites to adsense because of ad relevance. I have been very happy with YPN, but it's still in beta and they need more advertisers.
I don't really target outside the US but I have topics like Microsoft, Java, etc I do see over half of my traffic from the US and a majority of the rest from India, Austrailia, the UK, and other English speaking areas. Do I get credit for those clicks?
No. You only get paid for clicks that come from the US. If over half your traffic comes from outside the US, I wouldn't put YPN on it - at least not before you asked Yahoo. You could get your account banned, depending on how strict they are with the TOS. You can read the TOS for the exact wording.
On YPN's site I've only seen that publishers must be US based. No mention of clicks needing to come from US only. Can you point out where this is documented or how it's filtered out? On the YSM side I don't see any way to geo target ads or get credit for non-US clicks.
they filter out non-us clicks by looking at the persons IP address. so someone from 232.22.222.22 in iraq who clicks your ad will not be counted, but if 434.22.11.22 from the usa clicks your ad, then it will count. they ussually know what country your in by looking at the first few octets of the ip addess which is the host portion 232.22.*.*
That technically makes sense. But where is that spelled out in YPN or YSM? If I run ads on YSM for outsourcing java programming and I get clicks from India (which may be my target) I get the traffic but don't pay for it or does YSM charge me and not credit the YPN publisher?
Will non valid clicks from no us ip's show up as credit under the day but removed again before payment?. Or when is it?