Comments on: Yahoo Minimum bid change, what were they thinking?

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:16:29 +0000

Just saw a random selection of my keywords get their minimum bids increased to ridiculous amounts.

No rhyme or reason to it. This is a very stupid move by Yahoo. Makes me want to just delete my YSM account and focus on Adwords which sends me 90% of my traffic anyway.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:12:17 +0000

It’s actually just one more company taking advantage of Affiliate Marketers. I know many marketers who were touting Yahoo! as a good substitute for Google – if you couldn’t afford Google’s prices. Now that Yahoo! has received the benefit of all that free press, they’ve decided to take advantage of the people who gave them all those marketers. Go figure!

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:55:58 +0000

All of my keywords that were affected were in campaigns that were deleted. Maybe they should have filtered those out first.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:50:28 +0000

I agree that the increase in price is due to the Google outsourcing. It is strange that yahoo would want to. If that is the case they should just get out of the game and sub the whole thing over to Yahoo!.

By: Matt Larson

Matt Larson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:13:09 +0000

I just had a bunch of keywords disabled for my brand keywords and hadn’t been in to see what happened. Couldn’t have been relevance issues since that is the product I’m selling. If they jacked up my bid prices when I was in the top 3 positions, I’ll be fired up.

They seem to actually make it hard on purpose to spend money with them – I really try but they screw me over every time with little annoyances.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:06:10 +0000

My understanding is that this whole thing is a testing phase (or so a yahoo rep claims) and that it’s part of the Yahoo outsourcing to Google. However I must say that I am annoyed by the changes happening in Yahoo as well.

By: CPA Affiliates

CPA Affiliates — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:48:30 +0000

I would have thought before YSM rolled this out they would have improved their quality of traffic as i still get tons of foreign traffic even though i am set to us canada only and don’t run on the Y content… The only nice part is I turn in a click report every month and get a NICE refund!

By: John W

John W — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:40:10 +0000

I have no idea what they are thinking. Their traffic just isn’t worth as much as they want you to pay for it now.

By: John Q

John Q — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:31:48 +0000

my account just changed over and now half my keywords are .30 or higher min bids… bad move imo on yahoos part.