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June 4th, 2007

A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today

Your Click Charges to be Based on Quality of Traffic

Yahoo! Search Marketing is rolling out a new feature that we think will help enhance the quality, potentially reduce the cost and increase the value of traffic to you, our advertisers. It’s called quality-based pricing, and it measures the quality of traffic coming from our distribution partners—that is, the web publishers large and small that display your ads.  

Previously, you were charged the same for traffic from all web sites within our distribution network. Now, with quality-based pricing, you may be charged less for certain clicks than you otherwise would pay, depending on the overall quality of the traffic provided by our distribution partners. As a result, your click charges can decrease.

“Quality” is calculated based on conversion rates and other measurements of the ability of our partners’ sites to deliver more interested, valuable customers to you.

What do you need to do? Nothing that you aren’t already doing now. With quality-based pricing, the system does all the work. Your click charges may be discounted based on the quality of traffic you receive.  Please note that some may experience a noticeable decrease in overall cost-per-click, while others may experience only a small decrease in spend.
For more info, please visit our FAQs.

—Michael Mattis

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  • 1. Yahoo Search Marketing Be&hellip  |  June 4th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

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  • 2. Yahoo Search Marketing La&hellip  |  June 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pm

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  • 7. rip off  |  June 4th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Sounds like a rip off of Google’s SmartPricing! When is Yahoo ever going to do something new instead of blindly following Google???

  • 8. Darren Herman - Marketing&hellip  |  June 4th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    [...] While we do not know much else, you can read the full announcement here. [...]

  • 9. “Your Click Charges&hellip  |  June 4th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    [...] today introduced a new pricing model for the usual CPC ads. The summary is below: Previously, you were charged the [...]

  • 10. Peter  |  June 4th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    Why not just use AdvertCube AdFeeds™, a new feature coming soon from AdvertCube Internet Advertising (http://www.advertcube.com)? They’re planning on paying up to $0.50 per click, regardless of content, quality or any other factors.

  • 11. Venture Itch  |  June 4th, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    If you will also cancel ad editorial review taking 48 hours, I’ll switch from AdWord immediately.

  • 12. John  |  June 4th, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    LOL. A spam up before my comments.

    Anyway, nice move by Yahoo although I think it’s latecomer…

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  • 18. Christopher Rees  |  June 5th, 2007 at 11:33 am

    It’s a nice move in the right direction, however I’d like to see a Pay Per Action (PPA) program by both Yahoo and Google.

    Ultimately, I’d be willing to pay a lot more per action (sale) than I would be per click. Considering the number of bigger-ticket e-commerce sites out there, I would think the PPA model would be a massive revenue generator for both companies AND take a huge bite out of the Commission Junctions of the world..

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    Nice move Yahoo. “If you build it they will come.”

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  • 61. » Search Marketing &hellip  |  January 22nd, 2010 at 12:52 pm

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  • 70. James Anderson  |  July 29th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    It is about time that changes were made. It was getting to the point that only the rich could and did stay on top of the search engines. Maybe now things will have a chance of eveniing out. Only time will tell I guess. Thank you for the very interesting post.

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  • 71. Glendale Auto Insurance  |  July 29th, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    Now if only Google would do this…

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  • 73. Tikoim  |  August 2nd, 2010 at 4:55 am

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  • 74. Charlotte Hardwood Floors  |  August 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    All these paid service marketing efforts from SEs are like trying to buy a pig in a poke! Its time to hire a webmaster and go organic!!

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  • 76. insurance beverly hills  |  August 4th, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    What actually determines the quality of the traffic? Some of the partner sites that I’ve experienced on Yahoo were questionable at best, in my opinion of course, so a decrease in cost per click would be much appreciated there. But I’d still like to know that when I have a click on an expensive term like” insurance ” that I am getting quality traffic, so will you be explaining what determines the quality score?

  • 77. SEO Training Alliance  |  August 5th, 2010 at 6:25 am

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  • 78. George Gaines  |  August 13th, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    As far as paid traffic goes, this is a step in the right direction. However, I believe that with a little study and a little work, you can far out maneuver the paid traffic with good content, and save some cash.

  • 79. Efraims Limo Service  |  August 18th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    what would be the difference if I were to use yahoo.com or Google.com’s what type kind of differences would I see trying to rank a keyword like Coach Service
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  • 80. Jose's Airport Shuttle  |  August 18th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    with all these changes being done to yahoo search engine, I am just curious how the same keyword Airport Shuttle
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    Since before 2007 the click quality of any of the main PPC vendors has been declining dramatically with no stopping in site.

  • 83. Herman, Seattle limo guy  |  August 26th, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    It is not about time Y! offered us their version of the AdWords editor. It’s a great tool for us who don’t have the programming skills to make and API work

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