After my article on Yahoo Search Marketing Support Better than Adwords surprisingly I got an email from Google Adwords support. Was it because of the article or just they took time out of their tight schedule to reply I don’t know but the email answered one of my question in that article about credit card issue I have and I quote
Thank you for your email. Due to recent credit cards security changes in India, you won’t be able to add a new credit card to your AdWords account. However, you can still use the credit card already in your account.
What does this mean.
- Indian users would not be able to open New Adwords Post Pay accounts
- Old Adwords account would be able to use till credit card expires as they would not be able to add new one when it expires.
So what could be your alternative.
I think Yahoo Search Marketing is the best option nowadays apart from good support it also offers $25 for signup bonus
But if you are not planning to subscribe through Email. Try subscribing to RSS.
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When you compare YSM to Adwords you realize fast that Google does it best! With Yahoo you can't set to get traffic only from yahoo searches. In fact most clicks come from fraudulent yahoo partners' domains. You have to pay fake clicks in order to learn about the bad domains and then block them. What a daily pain! You can block up to 500, which is too low. You often need to contact Yahoo in order that they manually block some domains cause the feature isn't working that great and of course while waiting you are charged! You hit the 500 maximum really fast and it seems to have different networks of fraudulent domains for all types of keyword niches. So it's far from being enough and far from being fair. With Yahoo you can't block IPs. You can't block searches from other devices such as consoles and cellphones. I could continue listing all that Yahoo's lacking all night long. People who have success with Yahoo does cause their keywords aren't targeted by the network of fake clickers.. But from our experience, soon or later fake clicks spread on more and more keywords. You block a domain, there are 10 new ones.. it just never ends! Good luck!
I am experimenting on all those issues and soon would update. Yes there are issues which you are talking about though
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