I think they're looking for sites with decent traffic(thousands of visitors a day)... If you fit in that category and applied early, my guess is there's a pretty good chance... -- Derek
Actually, it could theoretically hurt us. Say, there's a fixed amount of advertisers on the net and a fixed number of publishers. At google, now, say 'all' the advertisers and publishers are there. The advertisers have to bid up to get the highest $$$ to get top spot. If some leave to Yahoo, that bid will likely go down at google(less bidding competition), and the yahoo bid will go up. It will all even out, but theoretically could be lower overall, particularly for publishers-- better for advertisers, though... -- Derek
That is very true. But perhaps Yahoo will give a bigger % of each PPC, which in turn may cause google to give a bigger % to publishers.
i am guessing the payouts will be the same. one big incentive is that yahoo lets people take money out of there ypn and buy overture stuff at a 10% discount for keeping the money with yahoo. The dude from ypn told me they also will be offering other things like paid inclusion and stuff for discounts if you use your ypn money for it. That is 1 MAJOR difference between the two. All of the google engineers and employees i asked about this said it was in the works but was pretty far back in the works.
Adsense payout varies from site to site-- usually the better ranked sites get more $$$. I'm betting YPN has something similar-- or at least will eventually... I put YPN ads on a channel of one of my sites and I've been comparing it over about a week's time to see how it stacked up to Google's. So far, it's more-- about twice as much... How that will translate into other places on the site, who knows-- I'll see about putting YPN ads on a few other channels/pages soon... -- Derek
http://publisher.yahoo.com/ They gotta like you, though... Apparently, even tho Yahoo penalized the site I applied with considerably due to the coop, they still let me into their publisher network... -- Derek