I got the email from Yahoo about 4 days ago and decided to try Yahoo ads on my most popular page to see how much I could get per click. Nintendo mentionned on one post that he got a click of $30 - needless to say this was enticing although I don't think I would get anywhere near this... So far I've had about 80 impressions and 0 clicks. I'm going to give it till monday and then take it off and put back my adsense if I don't get anything. I did notice 3 of the 4 ads were not relevant..one was about OMAHA steaks which has nothing to do with my site. There was one ad that was relevant though but no clicks.
Some sites it just doesn't work well for. Have you tried ad tartgeting??? We use ad targeting and ad blocking and it seems to help.
I dont think it works good for me either. I have had about 5000 impressions in the last couple of days on http://www.lotrmmorpg.com/forum/index.php with no click throughs. Its not like my ads are in a bad spot either. I dont get it. With google I would have got plenty of clickthroughs.
A forum is naturally going to perform much worse than any other type of site due to the nature of it's members. I'd give it another week at least for each of you; it's the holiday season and web surfers have gone insane
Okay here is my advice from experience: Some sites work good with google because of targetted text link ads. You know the really simple ads that people think its your menu actually Yahoo works well only if their ads are relevant to your site. If not it sucks... I switched some of my sites back now since they weren't getting more than 2 clicks on yahoo and about 10+ on google.
I hace found somewhat the opposite on loan sites which yahoo has plenty of ads for i get no click thrus even with the targeting the sites I have ypn work on have all been ones that exactly match the ad targeting, or I sport of force them to match
I replaced my Adsense with YPN on a couple of pages that were getting low CTR with Adsense. Elsewhere I'm getting pretty good CTR (mid single digit %) with Adsense but quite poor earnings per click. In contrast, with YPN I'm getting very low CTR (less than 1%) but often the clicks are several dollars. Yesterday, for example, 3 clicks paid $12 with YPN. But my YPN income varies wildly from day to day, by a factor of 10. I'm only getting about 1,000 YPN ad impressions per day with the limited roll out I have done so far. Maybe the wild fluctuations will even out with more impressions. How much income should one expect from 100 clicks? I think more than $6 or $7. I've only been running YPN for a couple of weeks but the average is well over $1 per click. That seems more like it.
It's not just that some sites are better suited for YPN than Adsense, but some pages on the same site are better for YPN and some are better for Adsense. I've actually only found one page on my site that does better on YPN, even though the ads are not as relevant as on the Adsense version of the page (lower relevancy and CTR but higher per-click pay).
i've been running ypn on several pages on a small site, for nearly a month... the ads look pretty much identical to the adsense that they replaced, but they are not nearly as well targeted, and there are a lot fewer advertisers than what adsense provides. while the ypn ctr isn't that much lower for this particular site, the overall payout is quite a bit higher.