YPN vs Adsense on banning TOS violators
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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fkr
Said this at 9:48pm:Thanks for the great rap Greg
It’s sad to see Yahoo dragging their feet on this, hopefully after next weeks blitz they’ll start taking a little more notice.
I’ve got plans to contact an advertiser every day next week with screenshots and an explanation of what their money is buying.
Target (the huge chain of .. stuff) was interested and even sent me a thank you saying they’ll be following up on the issue.
The results I’m getting from Google are great, I’ll be looking for plenty more abusers next week too, hopefully with AdSense.
Dan
Said this at 1:35am:You forget YPN is still beta, once it’s open to us public it’ll for sure heavy up on the armor.
Greg
Said this at 5:58pm:Maybe, but just because it is in BETA doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be enforcing the rules as much… unless they are developing programmes to find sites that abuse the TOS.