Ad Targeting FYI

August 14, 2006 8:39 AM

  

Don’t forget the “dub-dub-dub” when entering URLs to target

 

Ad Targeters, take note: When entering URLs into the Ad Targeting tool, it’s important to always include the domain prefix—“www”, “www2”, etc.—on all entries, even sub-domains, individual pages, RSS feeds and RSS posts. Note the examples provided on the Ad Targeting page:

 

   

Ad Targeting is designed to function this way, so be sure to dub-dub-dub your domains.

 

Ad whating? 

Not familiar with Ad Targeting? It’s a feature of our network that allows you to choose ad categories that best appeal to your users, in addition to contextual matching. There are many ad categories and subcategories to choose from. For more on Ad Targeting, see our April 20, 2006 blog post and our Ad Targeting FAQs.

  

—The Team
 

 

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5 Responses to “Ad Targeting FYI”

1. nroy Says:
   August 14th, 2006 at 7:27 pm

   It seems that I cannot log into my publisher account. There is also no way to contact anybody over here. My user Id is “nickroy.” Can someone check it out please?

2. Gary R. Hess Says:
   August 14th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

   I’m having problems logging in as well.

3. ben_ Says:
   August 14th, 2006 at 9:54 pm

   Who’s bright idea was it to require www prefixes? The entire domain should just be domain.com, the www is nothing more than a (common) subdomain.

   PS.
   I read a great post today over at SitePoint, someone wondering if they should demand a refund of their advertising budget because of the way publishers are abusing YPN and wasting his money. In a humourous twist of fate, one of the sites he tracked down showing his ads is one that I’ve previously reported and you’ve ignored.

4. azlan Says:
   August 15th, 2006 at 12:34 am

   there probably has some error with the publisher portal. i won’t be able to log in around 9pm. an hour later i am able to log in but the network is so slow. then login seems on and off (can’t and can login).

5. JayW Says:
   August 15th, 2006 at 12:05 pm

   How about giving us the ability to use wildcard characters on subdirectories?

   My sites are organized using the first two subdirectories as the state/city i.e., /florida/miami/ and from there its broken down into product & service categories.

   Given the number of state-city combinations there’s no way I can use this. If I could target an ad by “/*/*/cars” or “/*/*/jobs” then it becomes a time and cost effective way to get more relevant ads.

   -JayW