There are certain pages/channels on my site where adsense doesn't do so hot. I initially tried YPN, but didn't have nearly the click-throughs or earnings that other people had, because there simply weren't a lot of appropriate ads showing up. After seeing a 1% CTR in one of my adsense channels today, I decided to try and give it another go. I mean, yahoo couldn't do much worse, could they? I wrote this script a while back that rotates ad locations and does a few other things for me. I just added a variable in there to use YPN on certain channels instead of adsense. Is anyone else combining forces to maximize revenue? Good idea or bad idea?
I've tried coding some pages to display YPN when there is a good chance that the user is US based since YPN pays only for US clicks. I only used the language preference (en_us) but that isn't very reliable. YPN payouts have been low where I've tried them so I haven't persued it that much.
It turns out this is working great for me. Looks like I've more than doubled the earnings on my poorly performing google channels - surprisingly with fewer clicks. My next project is to GEO Target YPN for only US users - which I think I'll be able to do pretty easily with the free maxmind database http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country and their php module http://www.maxmind.com/app/php - I don't want to spend the $50 on the paid version just yet, maybe if I have difficulty with updates, to save me time.