Yahoo Ads are for idiots
Yahoo: if you use our ads, you have to block non-US visitors
LDM sez,
I joined the Yahoo Publisher Network, a beta program through which Yahoo provides text ads in much the same way that Google does. I started running the Yahoo text ads on many of my web sites.
A couple of days ago Yahoo sent me a notice stating they'd revised their Publisher Policy. Item '11.l' stated that I will not "display all or part of the Ad Unit to any user located outside the US". In other words, I can't allow users outside of the United States to view my pages if there is a Yahoo ad on the page!
This seemed insanely limiting, to say the least, and I wrote Yahoo to clarify this. Here is their reply:
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Mar 21 2006 16:18 PT
In regards to your inquiry, as per section 11.l of the Terms and Conditions, you are in violation if your ads receive traffic from sources outside the United States. However, there are scripts and programs which you can initiate to block international users from viewing or encountering your Yahoo! Publisher Network ads. We do not recommend or support these methods, but we do suggest finding a method to block this kind of traffic so you remain in compliance with the Terms and Conditions.
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us again via email, or by calling our Support Team at (866) 785-2636, Monday to Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. PDT, and from Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. PDT.
Sincerely,
Ray Devlin
Customer Solutions
Yahoo! Publisher Network
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So...Yahoo tells me to deliberately keep a large number of users from seeing my pages, but won't even *suggest* a way to do this. Clever, huh? Now I've got to spend a considerable amount of time removing the *&$%! Yahoo ads from my sites, lest they come to me later and accuse me of fraud or worse. If I didn't know better I would think Yahoo had no clue whatsoever of what this intarweb thing is all about. Who knew that people from *other* parts of the world use the internet?
When I spoke with a Yahoo rep on their Publisher Support line, they said I could block either the ads or the pages, but said over and over again that they "couldn't and wouldn't" give me any information on how to accomplish such a task. The rep finally told me that I should just firewall or block off "everything but the US" to keep the Yahoo ads from being seen by anyone outside the US. I'm sure their intent is to block only the ads, but they wouldn't hazard even a suggestion as to the best way to do this. Their "solution" was basically to block off the rest of the world.
LDM sez,
I joined the Yahoo Publisher Network, a beta program through which Yahoo provides text ads in much the same way that Google does. I started running the Yahoo text ads on many of my web sites.
A couple of days ago Yahoo sent me a notice stating they'd revised their Publisher Policy. Item '11.l' stated that I will not "display all or part of the Ad Unit to any user located outside the US". In other words, I can't allow users outside of the United States to view my pages if there is a Yahoo ad on the page!
This seemed insanely limiting, to say the least, and I wrote Yahoo to clarify this. Here is their reply:
------------------------------------------------
Mar 21 2006 16:18 PT
In regards to your inquiry, as per section 11.l of the Terms and Conditions, you are in violation if your ads receive traffic from sources outside the United States. However, there are scripts and programs which you can initiate to block international users from viewing or encountering your Yahoo! Publisher Network ads. We do not recommend or support these methods, but we do suggest finding a method to block this kind of traffic so you remain in compliance with the Terms and Conditions.
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us again via email, or by calling our Support Team at (866) 785-2636, Monday to Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. PDT, and from Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. PDT.
Sincerely,
Ray Devlin
Customer Solutions
Yahoo! Publisher Network
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So...Yahoo tells me to deliberately keep a large number of users from seeing my pages, but won't even *suggest* a way to do this. Clever, huh? Now I've got to spend a considerable amount of time removing the *&$%! Yahoo ads from my sites, lest they come to me later and accuse me of fraud or worse. If I didn't know better I would think Yahoo had no clue whatsoever of what this intarweb thing is all about. Who knew that people from *other* parts of the world use the internet?
When I spoke with a Yahoo rep on their Publisher Support line, they said I could block either the ads or the pages, but said over and over again that they "couldn't and wouldn't" give me any information on how to accomplish such a task. The rep finally told me that I should just firewall or block off "everything but the US" to keep the Yahoo ads from being seen by anyone outside the US. I'm sure their intent is to block only the ads, but they wouldn't hazard even a suggestion as to the best way to do this. Their "solution" was basically to block off the rest of the world.
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