Unless I misundestood what you said, how is this a failed test? People stayed on your site longer with YPN (less clicks) and you made almost the same amount of money? This opens up another opportunity for you to add something else (affiliate wise) and make more $$.

We would make lots more money if we got more clicks with YPN, but it seems the pay is almost the same for us. With less people leaving...more a win in our eyes :)

I am already doing the afilliate thing. I felt that was too much work for such a small gain. I have other ad servers also rotating on my sites so it really isn't that big a deal, Just get so disgusted with Google yanking us around like they do...bah~ Humbug!

Ann

We always receive fewer clicks with YPN than we do with Google, but YPN pays so much better per click that we make more money with them. Even if we made the same as with Google we'd still keep YPN just so we have two revenue streams, not just one. Getting YPN ad to target correctly can take weeks, but in most cases it comes around. Working with YPN definitely takes patience.

I believe 3 weeks is a good length of time...I won't pull all of them as I want to keep the account.

Ann

Hi Ann, Just passing through this forum...Haven't been here in awhile.
I see it's the same old issue...ad targeting.
I "moved back" (as you say Ann) months ago. Never regretted it, Ad Targeting is right on, making good $$...sleep better :-)

But here is the real issue...I spent months and months fretting, researching, optimizing pages, checking stats at all hours, doing tests like you, trying different ad placement to get better targeted ads.
Hours upon hours wasted!

Once I made the decision to Get Outta Dodge and Put The Ole Horse Out Of Its Misery...I spent my time making my 2 sites more Google friendly. My G traffic has increased 10 fold, which would never have happened had I kept being asorbed with Yahoo ads.

I too have keep my account open, BUT I'll not waste one more minute on Yahoo at this time. I'll bet when I visit this Y forum in the coming months, I'll read about the same old problems.

In the meantime I'll be writing more articles for directory submissions, building more quality ranked Link Backs and watching my 2 sites move up even higher in the google serps. It's going to be a good year in 08.

.57 ain't worth it, is it?
Good move Ann.
Fish Texas

[edited by: Fish_Texas at 4:31 pm (utc) on Dec. 5, 2007]

I don't believe you gave YPN a fair test. Three weeks is not very long to test anything.

In any case, I am so disappointed (actually, disgusted would be closer) with G, that I've begun putting YPN ads on some formerly G pages. I've already seem a good deal of improvement, after about 2 weeks, but one thing I did notice is that it takes sometimes 10 days to 2 weeks for Yahoo to get the ad tageting right. So, I am expecting results to improve.

G is getting so bad that I'm considering dumping them altogether. 2008 will be full of changes for me.

Fearless Rick,

I am just finishing up changing the pages of my main site to YPN. I just couldn't take the constant downhill drag, I felt like Google was aiming for zero earnings the way it kept falling.

After maintenance Saturday was the final blow, finished out the day at 12. and change. I hope Ypn makes it if not, then I am going to be looking for another ad company. Keeping adsense on my 2 smaller sites as they are doing fair and don't want to give up adsense altogether in case they start doing something better.

Good luck with yours,

Ann