Comments for Affiliate Sutra

Comment on Geo Targetting in Yahoo Search Marketing by Zen

Zen — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:35:30 +0000

I agree with the ‘make a mess of such a simple thing’ part, but Google making our lives easier? Over my dead body. The act of banning 90% of affiliates account and campaigns is simply too disgusting for me to digest.

Yahoo isn’t making my life any simpler with their ridiculous geo-targeting system. I cannot believe I have to start 3 accounts to target US Canada, Australia New Zealand and UK Ireland; all in different currencies!!! It makes tracking 100 times harder than in Adwords, BUT at least they are not banning my accounts without giving me a proper reason, which is what Google is good at.

Comment on Geo Targetting in Yahoo Search Marketing by Jeremy Kenyon

Jeremy Kenyon — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:28:22 +0000

Yes – Yahoo have no idea how to make a usable advertising platform. I have to make essentially an independent account for almost every separate country. Each one is billed separately (so they told me). Its a ridiculous system they have.

I may bother to do UK and USA, but I am not bothering with any other parts of the world.

How Yahoo can make such a mess of such a simple thing is beyond me – there is a reason Google dominate – they make life easier for the people paying their bills.

Comment on Geo Targetting in Yahoo Search Marketing by Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:47:16 +0000

Yahoo geo targeting sucks! I have an account with my market set as UK and Ireland. Now I want to have 2 campaigns within UK/ Ireland.

1) Big Cities – Such as Dublin, London, etc

2) Smaller Cities- Such as Cork, Limerick, etc

The reason for this is that clicks from London, Dublin etc eat up my budget very fast and my primary audience is in the rural areas. So I wanted to have an upper cap for the big cities and allot a separate budget for the smaller towns – hence, the new campaign.

When I go to the geo target settings page and select – Target by region, I don’t see any dropdown or map (the way it comes in AdWords). The help center is also ineffective.

what do you suggest in this case? How do I go about doing this?

Comment on My CPA Network Experience, So far by Daniel M. Clark

Daniel M. Clark — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:27:51 +0000

I’ve been looking to dabble in CPA a little bit myself, and my rules are the same as yours: no scams, no rebills, no get-rich-quick schemes. I’ve run into the same thing as you, actually… ruling those things out leaves very few solid offers. Still, I’m looking and hoping to find something that I can morally/ethically get behind.

Thanks for the write-up, it’s good to know I’m not the only one in this position!