Recent content by Setec

Starting sometime on March 1st, my CTR for YPN arbitrage dropped by a factor of TEN, from about 50% to about 5%. This is happening equally across all of about 50 niches and 4 different PPC traffic sources with traffic that's 98.5% from the U.S. It might make sense if my site was down, but it...

Just for fun I started this satire blog a couple weeks ago (it would be best not to visit if you're prude about your religion): Blog of the Gods Now I'm getting hundreds of uniques a day pretty steadily, I'd like to start making a few bucks off it. Contextual ads are out of the question...

I was signing up to the RaptureReady forum (Rapture Ready Message Board - Powered by vBulletin) for covert project promotion reasons. It's a forum for real nutcase Christians who eagerly anticipate the end of the world so they can get whisked away with Jesus, so these people aren't too keen on...

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this broad drop in the earnings per click on YPN. Here are my daily average EPCs over more than a hundred niches, starting a couple weeks ago with the last value being yesterday's (Feb 5th) average: $0.61 $0.65 $0.66 $0.65...

Twice now I've logged into YPN and seen this message: Both times, all the categories in the Compliance Manager were empty. This time it was the first login after they had downtime for maintenance. That might have been the case last time (a few weeks ago) too, but I don't remember. Has...

I'm giving PPC-to-CPA another go after a half-assed try a couple months ago, and I wanted to build a good list of "buy" keywords for AdWords. It's kind of annoying to paste the word "buy" before 20 keywords or so, let alone plugging them all into a bunch of different buy phrases, so I wrote a...

I've read some reviews of Windows Vista and I don't see any reason to upgrade from XP unless I want my computer to be slower. Am I missing something? Does it have any sweet stuff for webmasters at all?

Well with Chrislingle's new policy as mod I've gotta ask, what does fucktarded mean? There's a poll...

I'm having a hell of a time getting YPN to shop showing Run-of-Network ads on my pages like http://www.mysite.com/my-topic-name.php?source=MSN. The regular URL http://www.mysite.com/my-topic-name.php targets fine, but the one with a parameter keeps showing RON ads. This is giving me big...

YPN has the really damn annoying habit of forgetting what my pages are about if they haven't been loaded for a while. So when I buy a visitor to an arbi URL that hasn't been visited for a few days, he just sees PSAs or something. I have quite a few of these profitable but low-traffic niches...

I've never found a good answer before as to what YPN does with foreign clicks if you're not doing their geotargeting for them. One opinion, which I think Yahoo has reinforced, is that they don't count foreign clicks anyway, so you'll make more if you geotarget and show international users...

I haven't heard anything from 7Search yet and a lot of my competition in my main niches seems unaffected, too. I'm curious what % of webmasters have been hit by their changes yet. So here's a poll.

I've noticed that on some of my low-traffic arbi pages my YPN ads seem to forget their targeting after a while. I visit a page that maybe hasn't had a paid visitor in a week and it serves the same generic ads I get on the first load of a new page. I reload a minute later and it's usually fine...

There's a new post up about it on the AdSense blog: Inside AdSense: Ad and image placement: a policy clarification Basically, doing the "trick" of making images look like they're associated with the ads isn't allowed, even if you have a little line between them or something. It seems this...

For those who like this kinda thing, if you go out right now and look up (pretty much straight overhead in the eastern US right now) there's a pretty heavy meteor shower going on. "Pretty heavy" for a meteor shower means you'll see one every couple minutes or so.