The YPN User site loads slow like a snail and the payouts have dropped and now YPN is overriding targeted ads with (low paying) ones they want to show.
I agree on the targetted bit - I am in a constant fight to try and block unrelated and low paying ads. It just started like this with the latest update. The site does load quite slow in FF - I haven't tried in IE, but I usually go to the page, tab off and do something else and come back once its loaded.
You know I thought it was only me. My revenue dropped in half this week. I also notice that my ads are not what they should be. I have one site that went from 30 clicks a day and $20 to 7 clicks and $.80. I have other sites that have experience similar drops. None of my ad targeting works which is really upsetting since my sites are relevant to the categories they were using. Now instead of Insurance ads on two of my insurance sites I am getting Internet ads for low paying crap.
this will work itself out i hope ... as publishers will ditch and retreat back to google for these reasons. bottom line, i don't want to micromanage my site ads ... i will for large high traffic sites ... but sites fetching $5-20 a day? i dunno ... your time is worth something ... and if it means repeated tweaking ... not sure i want to bother with that.
The only problem I have with the latest update is the slow login page. The first time I've seen a login page that takes that long or even close I use FF.
I agree. I am now looking at other programs for certain sites. I have started testing Azoogleads.com on some of my sites to see how they perform for me. Nice thing is I can test them with the current YPN and Google ads still in place since they are not contextual. I do not want to have to micro-manage my sites either and thus the reason for testing other avenues now.
It takes on average 2 minutes 20 seconds for me to get the login page to open here, each time, I have 56k dialup. It used to open real fast, but not anymore..... after the updates
This stinks! A few months ago My earnings averaged $8 to $15 per day I had 300 plus uniques a day. Now in the last month my uniques are near 700 per day and I'm lucky if I make $1 per day. Somethings not right here. They should be farther along than they are now in their beta. Seems to me that we were bated with high earnings in the beginning and now we get next to nothing. I'll run the ads another month or so to see if improves.
soon we have to be approaching the "why bother trying it instead of Adsense?" point....right? After using it for a few months its clear to me its just about inferior in every way.
I am sure they do see their share of defections due to the sudden drops in revenue that many of us are experiencing over the course of the last month or two.