Jul 21
It looks like YPN are trying to crack down on Made-For-Adsense (Or Yahoo) sites. On all of the sites I have seen running YPN, the ads are all intrusive
Don’t duplicate (*cough* STEAL *cough*) content from other sites. We want to be with someone original.
Agreed. You should write your own content or pay someone to do it for you.
Don’t place images next to ads. It’s dishonest and we want to be in a long term relationship with publishers everyone can trust. People will think those images have to do with the ads, and when they find that the site they’ve been directed to has nothing to do with them, they’ll be pretty miffed.
Bit of a suprise, they are the first ad company to tell its users not to put images near their ads. Google Adsense did tell its users to make sure a clear divider was between images and the ads. Most of the ads I have seen on YPN with images have been related but I can see their point.
Don’t go nuts with the ads and place them all over every page like they’re your content or something. It looks like you are trying too hard.
Finally cracking down on this, I hate sites that blend in the ads to make it look like their part of the content. A site that does this particularly well is tutorialized.com (check out their tutorials to see what I mean). Not only does it look like
you’re trying too hard but it tricks users.
Don’t send us traffic from Zimbabwe or Ireland. Not that there’s anything wrong with Zimbawe or Ireland, but right now we’re just not ready to make that big, international commitment. We’re working on it, though, so be patient, and good things will come.
Good luck trying to stop that. Geo-targetting databases can cost alot and the free ones can be hard to come across.
You can read the rest of them over at the YPN Blog.
Jul 10
All these sites provide good information regarding; Contextual Advertising, SEO and Affiliate marketing and other related info. I read most of them and have probably missed a lot out. Here we go;
Blogs
Forums
News Sites
Other
- SEOmoz
- SEOBook (I’ve read good reviews about the book, it has a good blog too)
If there are anyones you think that you use and I’ve missed out, suggest them in the
Update: Fixed a few urls that linked to the wrong place.
comments.
May 29
Link Worth Calculator - Text Link Ads
After reading about this tool on ProBlogger I decided to try it out. This is a good tool to calculate how much a link from your site is worth. I had a go and it returned some good results. I had a go with www.bbc.co.uk and it returned some amusing comments “More than you can afford” 
The calculator takes the following into account;
Traffic of your website
Link popularity of your website
Theme of your website
Number of links to be sold
Sitewide or single page placement
Location on the page
Source
The image of “the area on your site where you will place the text link ads” looks remarkable similar to the adsense “heat” image. It looks like most companies agree that directly above/below/next to is the place to get best results from ads.
Link Worth Calculator
May 28
Modded Up: Winning The Fight
A good post comparing the reaction of the adsense team vs the yahoo team after he reported a total of 13 sites. 5 of the sites reported to Adsense were banned and 0 out of 8 of YPN have not been punished. Yahoo may still be relativly new but they should take a really strong stance against TOS violations.
I think his last paragraph sums it up well;
Get your shit together Yahoo, you’re trying to compete with Google and they’re thrashing you not just in market but in network integrity and traffic quality. Until you actually give a fuck about publishers abusing their accounts you have no chance against AdSense.
There are quite alot of posts in his Blog about YPN and reporting clicks, I would check it out http://www.moddedup.com/
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