I am having a brain fart as I usaully do at 5am but.. whats the general consensus from YPN regarding all myspace/bulletin traffic? I have access to a HUGE acct that will post bulletins for me but im not sure if I should do it. I emailed YPN and they thought I said if I have a myspace resource site to read the tos..but he didnt read my inquiry properly, I was asking if its ok if I advertise on myspace for my sites. thanks
I think you can advertise your websites...but make sure you aren't telling people to click your links or anything like that. That is a violation of the TOS. Also, it might be better not to advertise with a bulletin, maybe putting it in your blog would be safer. But don't quote me on any of that, I don't work for YPN
There were some sites receiving MySpace traffic that lost their YPN account. YPN has no set rule against MySpace traffic, but if the traffic isn't converting well for their advertisers, then they can terminate the account. MySpace can have quality issues - i.e. people click the ads but don't buy anything.
People who said they got suspended for MySpace traffic were wrong, at JenSense.com she interviewed YPN's VP and he set that straight and said that it was because of other reasons not MySpace.
i believe arcticpro, being banned for a source of traffic seems absurd to me. If you're not engaging in click fraud, you should be fine. Banning people for traffic that doesn't convert is BS. I can understand if you send 10,000 hits and none of it converts, that's solid proof of click fraud. But if it's just low, that should be no reason to ban you from the network. I hope that YPN does not take banning members lightly, and I suspect that they don't.
YPN terminates accounts for having too much International traffic and poor converting traffic. It's not a matter of if someone agrees with it or not, there is no doubt that they have and will do it. If advertisers are receiving poor traffic that doesn't convert, they aren't going to continue to advertise or pay less. I spend a lot of money on PPC and wouldn't want teenagers clicking ads that I have to pay for - and not buy anything. For instance, mortgage ads - I'll bet a very small percentage of MySpace users are going to go through with a home loan. Other types of advertising might convert really well with MySpace traffic. Quality traffic issues caused Google to go to smart pricing and a lot of high paying advertisers to drop out of the content network (which means adsense publishers never get those high paying ads). Google just pays poor converting sites a penny or two a click - while good converting sites might get over a dollar for the same click. Yahoo isn't as developed, so they just terminate the account. One of the reasons advertisers are willing to pay more for Yahoo (which means higher payments to publishers) is that their traffic converts better than google. Yahoo is very protective of quality traffic and they made this clear in the Jensense interview.