I Hate Yahoo ppc, well ok I don't

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So I took Johns $100 free offer with Yahoo about a week ago and added $5. set up a landing page and made ads etc for my keywords, was very specific for my ad and the keyword etc. they say what 2 to 4 days for aproval right so I set it and forget it. get up the next morning to see if anything has happened and I have not hundreds but thousands of clicks. my credit card has been hit 2 times for over $1000 each time. I am about to blow a gaskit(sp) then I look at my landing page stats, I had adsense on the page as well as the service I was pimping, this page works very well in other ppc engines so anyway I make money but the thing I am not happy about is the way it happened. Yahoo needs to improve there backend and fast. This could cause lots of problems for them. I wrote an email but I think alot of people need to get together and make it known that for new people using there system can be a very bad experience. any ideas?
 


Edit: I've haven't used yahoo yet but I've heard of this happening several times and I agree that isn't right.

But at least you profited from it, it could have went the other way.
 
Xrproto- close to that yea, the problem though is the way yahoo's system works, I probably should not have added that to the thread because it is not really relavaint to the problem so I am editing
 
John said:
ummm am I the only one who knows how to set a daily max?
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haha, I guess so. I didn't figure that out until AFTER I got charged $30 on my CC. Unlike Chris, I did lose a little money. Their interface is really slow and stupid, hell I even like 7search's better. At least it works in Firefox...
 
Yes John I am an idiot, see when you are used to using prducts that have the user in mind then you get lazy with the crap that yahoo callse there back end. I don't hate it once I figured it out but it takes to much time and there is to much crap!
 
I always set the daily max first then worry about adding lots of keywords, etc.

I have noticed that many of the ppc interfaces are tricky as hell for both depositing money and setting limits
 
sknydave said:
I always set the daily max first then worry about adding lots of keywords, etc.

I have noticed that many of the ppc interfaces are tricky as hell for both depositing money and setting limits
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Their interface is crap and the fact that they don't let you turn off auto-deposit is crap. Stupid business practices...

You can email them and have them do it manually though. There's a hidden "Support Center" link at the bottom of the page (light grey, doesn't look like a link). Work your way through there and you can find a form for email.

Oh! and don't touch the billing options after doing this. Any one change to it will reinstate your auto-deposit.
 
what do you bid for overture usually? is their ctr better than 3rd tier? cuz like if i bid $.10 i won't get any traffic right?
 
make sure to set your account to prepay deposit. yahoo fucks people over like that.. by automatically charging their cards if they dont do this.
 
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