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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
If they are just sponsors, not banned from GFY, and are not linked to any webmaster board, I don't see why sharing the urls would get you banned. Are these offshoots of established mainstream PPC companies like DoubleClick, etc?
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oh, sorry. i was referring to Yahoo and MSN. Yahoo has a publisher network already rolled out (YPN). MSFT will roll out its own as well. each PPC network will try to attract advertisers with cheaper keywords. but it's only useful if they have the traffic (publisher network). so they need to get the current adsense users to migrate to YPN
a few people i have talked to have said that Yahoo was paying out more than adsense (don't know if this is still the case). the goal (as always) is - traffic. advertisers need traffic, and right now google is dominating the network publisher market. so yahoo is trying to attract current adsense publishers (probably) by losing money on clicks. they do this in other businesses.
for instance - google pays adsense publishers something like 78% of each click. what if yahoo started paying out 105% for each click and lose money on each click. adsense users would migrate to YPN. then YPN can
slowlythrottle the payout down and get paid back. check out their music service. i've heard that they take a hit on each subscription to musicnet. they offer the service for like 2 bucks less than other publishers selling music-on-demand.
who knows. i have no definitve proof to back this up, so take it for what it's worth.