Archive for April, 2008
Adbrite have disabled account for click fraud
I received an email from adbrite yesterday informing me that click fraud has been identified on our site and as such the site can has been disabled. I am sure this is the same problem as with Bidvertiser a few days ago but when replying to the Adbrite email address ( support@adbrite.com) it bounced, I [...]
Bye Bye Adsdaq
OK its been over a week now since we implemented Bidvertiser and adsdaq, and adbrite since, and out of the three Adsdaq is performing the worse, in fact we’re lucky if it hits $1/day so we are dropping the Adsdaq network advertising from the site. We have also moved away from OpenX to serve our [...]
Google doing click fraud themselves follow up
As a followup to my post a few days ago Google doing click fraud themselves I looked into it a bit more and it appears the IP addresses in question may be from Google services such as Google Translate etc so I contacted Bidvertiser as many of the site users use the translate service provided [...]
Yzoo Ads – Yes we are:)
We have decided to offer advertising direct to advertisers after the recent decision by Google. The ads are not context so any ad will appear on any page but ads can be geotargetted enabling advertisers to target ads towards specific regions if necessary. Take a look at http://adserver.yzoo.co.uk and if you place an ad before [...]
Google doing click fraud themselves?
OK so we removed adsense from Yzoo as requested by Google and bidvertiser ads are being displayed. When I logged into my Bidvertiser account today I was presented with the following message: We have recently detected invalid clicks generated on your BidVertiser ads. The invalid clicks were generated from the following IP(s): 218.111.59.157 , 66.249.85.69 [...]
Higher CPC but lower CTR
Bidvertiser and adsdaq have both been implemented now in place of Adsense and I have found that the Cost Per Click is higher with Bidvertiser than it is with Adsense but the Click Through Rate is far lower which overall means less is being earned from advertising. I am in the process of installed my [...]
Google Adsense has blocked Yzoo
After 18 months of Yzoo.co.uk having adsense ads being shown on the site Google has today decided that it is breaking the Adsense policies. As normal, Google give no information about which policies are being broken but sent a ‘standard’ email. Over the past 12 months Yzoo has earned over Quarter of a Million US [...]
Google making me work
In the past I have reported, on here, that Google have dropped the site Yzoo.co.uk from their Serps, this has been happening on a regular basis about every 6 to 8 weeks and the site has been relisted again within a few days after I have tweaked it. February 2008 was the busiest month yet [...]
Google payment received
OK although Google have paid a lot later than normal to many publishers they have now paid, EFT payments of those affected are appearing in bank accounts this morning. The thing we must all remember is that Google do state that the payments will be in your account by the 5th of the month, and [...]
Moving blog to Yzooblog.com
Just a quick not to say that YzooBlog is going live tomorrow, the 2nd April 2008, I have decided to now move this blog over to the Yzooblog service.