I signed to Yahoo Search Marketing last night, trying to promote water4gas, as its not allowed with Adwords. I've made a campaign, bid some 30 % over their minimum suggested bid. Their estimates for my bid saying, I should get arround 130 clicks daily ( 7000 impressions ) But, almost 24 hours later, I had huge 5 clicks to my site. And what's most sadly, my dashboard haven't updated at least 15 hours, and still showing 3 clicks. What a waste of time and money , I don't have an idea how to spend those 100 $ I have on account
Wow, I have never tried Yahoo for PPC before, but heard some people are having great succes with it. Try to send a support ticket and see what the problem is
I think YSM works pretty well as far as converting the traffic you get (in fact it seems to convert better than AdWords - usually.) But yeah, their system sucks. I find it a real pain to deal with so I usually don't bother with it.
Hey, I just join ysm yesterday too and also to promote water4gas, what a clitch, I have spend all the money and its still says 0 clicks.
I'm experimenting a bit with YSM. A few things you might have missed, there impression/click estimates are reported monthly, maybe that is creating confusion there. Also in terms of not updating, I thought I had that to start, but I found their date range is not automatically set appropriateley, so you may need to check the date range specified for the report and add a day or two to that. I am finding reports update every 15 minutes and are typically about a half hour behind. At the moment, I am using search network only, but alot of my traffic is coming from searches on parked domains! Not quite what I was after, but still will just see how it goes.
Yeah, YSM is kinda dumb. After using Adwords, it looks really stupid.....Their statistics, and the whole system definitely needs to be updated/changed
no, their monthly estimates are 3900 clicks and 210 000 impressions You have to turn off Content Match Status. Go to Campaings, and edit Tactical Settings 17 clicks so far, even I can confirm max 14 through my stats
i had the same problem contacted them via email spoke to someone in usa turned off Content Match Status next thing i know bang $100 gone the fastest $100 i have ever spent on advertising lol i didnt have a good experiance with it and i will never use it again i live in uk but when i wanted to close account i was told i had to phone usa ? when i was putting cash in they were quick to phone me here in uk ! All this took around 3 weeks to actually happen from opening account to closing it and it was avery stressfull time
Yep, content match status is campaign setting has been turned off the whole time. Still getting this parked domain search traffic though. Oh well, easy come, easy go ...
Yeah - parked page traffic is included with "Sponsored Search" - one of the reasons why yahoo traffic is cheaper. Yahoo campaigns take a day or two to ramp up. Believe me - not having to mess around with Google Quality Score is really great - one of the biggest advantages of Yahoo. Why are you trying to advertise water-for-gas, anyways? It's a really stupid scam IMO.