Anyone had Yahoo shut down their Zip/ Email campaign?

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Yahoo just shut down one of my best zip campaigns. this was the note in their editorial comment:

Unacceptable Ad
Please see the editor's comments below for details:
Promotes an unacceptable service: The collection of personally identifiable information to be used for consumer or promotional marketing, or related purposes. Examples include, but are not limited to, sites that offer free cards or consumer electronic products in exchange for completing an online offer or survey.

Is this some new rule? Basically it would shut almost all Email and Zip submits related to free stuff...

But fuck yahoo anyway, b/c i'm just gonna find another way to run it. But it's pretty annoying as this one was already on autopilot.
 


rgordon83 said:
Yahoo just shut down one of my best zip campaigns. this was the note in their editorial comment:

Unacceptable Ad
Please see the editor's comments below for details:
Promotes an unacceptable service: The collection of personally identifiable information to be used for consumer or promotional marketing, or related purposes. Examples include, but are not limited to, sites that offer free cards or consumer electronic products in exchange for completing an online offer or survey.

Is this some new rule? Basically it would shut almost all Email and Zip submits related to free stuff...

But fuck yahoo anyway, b/c i'm just gonna find another way to run it. But it's pretty annoying as this one was already on autopilot.
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Wowww. So they can't keep up with reviewing new campaigns, but they have time to review old ones?
 
yahoo banned email/zip submits almost a year ago.. you might be able to get them up and running for a while, but eventually they will get canned..
 
Maybe start using an LP with a map or something a user clicks their state to "Qualify" then they are bounced to your offer.

Make sure your not including all the shit they don't want on your LP (but at the same time dont lie on the LP either)

See what you can get by them with limited info.

Another thing you can look into is cloaking possibly... I have no experience in this and can't really tell you how to do it, but from what I understand its when you selectively send a user (based on ip or other variable) to a different site than everyone else would see.
 
Yahoo does not accept data collection sites. Thats why they manually review and remove zip/email submit offers.

If you use landing page shouldn't be a problem.
 
rgordon83 said:
yeah, i have some others running as well, but those are with LP's, the one that got shut down was direct link, think that makes a diff?
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all 3 of mine were/are direct linked.....mabey they just havent cought the third
 
-Bill- said:
Maybe start using an LP with a map or something a user clicks their state to "Qualify" then they are bounced to your offer.

Make sure your not including all the shit they don't want on your LP (but at the same time dont lie on the LP either)

See what you can get by them with limited info.

Another thing you can look into is cloaking possibly... I have no experience in this and can't really tell you how to do it, but from what I understand its when you selectively send a user (based on ip or other variable) to a different site than everyone else would see.
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It'd be pretty easy on Yahoo. They use the most predictable bots out of any search engine.
 
xmcp123 said:
It'd be pretty easy on Yahoo. They use the most predictable bots out of any search engine.
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But they have alot of human editors, so you just have to make sure you dont get manually reviewed.
I havent really checked if the editors come from similar ip's or not.
 
gdubs12345 said:
But they have alot of human editors, so you just have to make sure you dont get manually reviewed.
I havent really checked if the editors come from similar ip's or not.
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If they do, run a quick curl script to log into your account and check the status of the campaign. If not approved, cloak that shit, and insert the IP into the database for cloaking later.
over time, that'd build up a pretty impressive IP db of the editors.
 
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