It seems YPN does count foreign clicks

[Setec]

I've never found a good answer before as to what YPN does with foreign clicks if you're not doing their geotargeting for them.

One opinion, which I think Yahoo has reinforced, is that they don't count foreign clicks anyway, so you'll make more if you geotarget and show international users another ad network instead of wasting them.

I just started geotargeting and my early results contradict that view. It seems Yahoo probably was counting foreign clicks. Here are my CTRs for 7Search -> YPN arbitrage for the last 25 days, calculated from actual clicks bought/received and not the official YPN CTR figure:

34%
34%
35%
35%
33%
35%
29%
33%
38%
38%
33%
40%
39%
43%
36%
38%
35%
38%
41%
35%
27% <--Started geotargeting here
28%
29%
29%
28%

If YPN wasn't counting foreign clicks, then the numbers before geotargeting should be just as low as the numbers after geotargeting.

I changed a couple other variables when I started geotargeting (switched domain names and went from XML/XSLT pages to PHP pages) but I really doubt they're involved in the CTR reduction.

 

[arz]

Why wouldn't they charge for foreign clicks? Advertisers on Yahoo get charged for them, so the money's gotta go somewhere other than only to Yahoo.

 

[Stanley]

of course they charge they filter it out later and if you had a significant amount of foreign clicks they ban your ass

 

[aim]

I could be wrong, but I don't think it's the "Foreign" clicks are forbidden; I think it is non-US publishers that can't sign up for an account.

 

[Jdog]

I could be wrong, but I don't think it's the "Foreign" clicks are forbidden; I think it is non-US publishers that can't sign up for an account.

Sorry, but you are wrong. YPN no likey foreign traffic and they have banned people for it.

 

[aim]

YPN no likey foreign traffic and they have banned people for it.

Really? I was in Mexico last week and YPN was showing up on all of my sites just fine. Contextual, even, with links to Spanish translation sites and crap like that. Must have determined that I was in a MX IP with a EN Browser/OS or something...? No clue.

And I may have accidentally clicked a link or two from a couple IP's down there, just to "test" if it worked. So far no problems...

 

[katoved]

Lol. Yeah, Yahoo has a lot of external and internal policy changes to clean up. I read somewhere, If you are doing 20K a month, and a majority of that traffic is international, you might get banned.

 

[Setec]

of course they charge they filter it out later

Has anybody actually seen their clicks filtered out? It doesn't seem I had any filtered for my first paycheck, even though I wasn't geotargeting.

Really? I was in Mexico last week and YPN was showing up on all of my sites just fine.

Their ads work fine for foreign visitors, but they forbid it in the ToS anyway. It's completely stupid. I really hope they change that policy when they come out of beta.

 

[Stanley]

Has anybody actually seen their clicks filtered out? It doesn't seem I had any filtered for my first paycheck, even though I wasn't geotargeting.

you separated my sentence
the way you quoted it, it implies that they filter out the $

 

[Setec]

you separated my sentence
the way you quoted it, it implies that they filter out the $

Oh, that's what I thought you meant. I see what you were trying to say now though -- they don't routinely filter out your foreign clicks, but they check from time to time and if you get caught you're in trouble.