AdCenter Transition Woes
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With the Yahoo! Search ad serving transition set to begin as soon as October 11, we may accelerate test volumes on adCenter for brief periods over the next couple of days.
Yahoo! and Microsoft Continue Ad Testing with adCenter - adCenter Blog - Microsoft Advertising Community
hopefully it works out
Yahoo! and Microsoft Continue Ad Testing with adCenter - adCenter Blog - Microsoft Advertising Community
hopefully it works out
Same thing here. Looks like it's happening now. Past few days impressions have dropped to almost nothing. I'm shutting down the campaign - not worth the hassle.
I've been looking forward to this day for a long time. No more PPC for me. It was a great ride back in the early days (understatement of the year!) but it's time to focus on greener pastures. And I won't miss the management that's for sure...
Complete opposite for me Yahoo search has been the least hands on project I have worked on for the past 2 years. The niche I was in stayed the same. All I had to do was adjust bids a few times a week. Took me less than 30 min all week.
Yea I know, I have been locked out of my account once already. Had to wait 2 days before support got back to me. Now my campaigns won't even show.
Heh, hopefully they'll get it sorted out. Strangely both my Bing and Yahoo accounts are spending more.
You have to make sure you go into each and every adgroup and set your traffic preferences, if you don't, your ads will show on every shit parked page in Yahoo's partner network and the slightly less than shitty Bing partner network. Which drives up costs and typically doesn't ever convert.
You have to make sure you go into each and every adgroup and set your traffic preferences, if you don't, your ads will show on every shit parked page in Yahoo's partner network and the slightly less than shitty Bing partner network. Which drives up costs and typically doesn't ever convert.
Just curious, for those of you seeing a downturn in quality, etc, did you have existing Yahoo campaigns that got ported into Bing, or existing Bing campaigns that got a flood of Yahoo traffic?
I don't know about you, but I'm looking at years worth of campaign data in yahoo, with their own conversion tracking, that shows me otherwise. Same goes with Google - the PARTNER SITES CONVERT THE SAME OR BETTER.
To block them all would be idiotic - just block the non converting sites individually.
I've been using Yahoo for years and could never get the parked pages to convert. It all seemed like automated/bot traffic to me. Could be my niches/campaigns too. YMMV.
Depends in which niches. Some niches have huge partner sites that display ads but in some niches all you get are crap sites. So I guess it's case to case thing.
Looks like they're shifting some weight right now... it was a great ride Yahoo, you always were my favorite.
Here is another major problem that I have with adcenter. If you have a Mac they say they do not support Safari or Chromium which leaves Firefox. But if I use Firefox on OS X and I go to the adcenter page its in fucking french! No matter how many times I change the language like they tell me to its always in french. Its driving me nuts having the fucking thing in french.
Also their desktop campaign thing will not run on Office on Mac.
My campaign was with yahoo and had been banking for 3yrs, adcenter wont even approve my ads to let it run on the new shared system.
Also their desktop campaign thing will not run on Office on Mac.
My campaign was with yahoo and had been banking for 3yrs, adcenter wont even approve my ads to let it run on the new shared system.
I agree their shitty mac support sucks balls. The interface is so slow and clunky, even on IE.
If you have VMWare or Oracle Virtual Box (free) just load up Win2k and do all your Shitcentering from there.
After I contacted adcenter about this french problem on my mac they kindly sent me a link to the adcenter system requirements. Pasted below is that page.
So its official from m$ adcenter. If you own a mac you are fucked.
System requirements
Microsoft adCenter is a web-based program that can be used on any computer that meets certain requirements.
For optimal Microsoft adCenter performance
Operating system and web browser
- Allow pop-ups (Additional small windows that appear in front of the webpage you are viewing.) on adCenter by turning off your pop-up blocker (A software program that prevents secondary windows—usually smaller windows—from "popping up" over the webpage you're viewing.) for the adCenter website. For more information, see Help for your web browser.
- Download and install the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight from the Microsoft Silverlight website.
If you use Mozilla Firefox, you must enable cookies and JavaScript.
- Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows 98: Use with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or later.
- Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows 7: Use with Windows Internet Explorer 8, Windows Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or later.
Enable cookies in Mozilla Firefox
- Click Tools, and then click Options.
- Click the Privacy tab, and then click the Cookies tab.
- Select Allow sites to set Cookies, and then click OK.
Enable JavaScript in Mozilla Firefox
- Click Tools, and then click Options.
- Click the Content tab, select Enable JavaScript, and then click OK.
Notes
- Microsoft adCenter does not support Safari.
- Microsoft adCenter does not support Mac or Virtual PC.
- Microsoft adCenter is not supported on mobile phones.
So its official from m$ adcenter. If you own a mac you are fucked.
