Comments on: Some Marketers Still Irked By Yahoo's New Ad System

By: Kelly Warner

Kelly Warner — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:52:34 +0000

I manage 6 accounts, all spending about $1000 each month. Although I do like the premise nehind the upgrade, I am extremely frustrated with the implementation. It now takes 3-4 steps to do what I used to do on one page. What used to take me minutes a day to manage, now takes me over an hour. One of the reports I normally run did not make the transition. Yahoo took it upon themselves to place my keywords into "ad groups" without any input on my part. For one of my accounts, with 168 keywords, they placed each keyword into its own group! On my other accounts, the ad groups they chose were not what I would have done, given the option. They are trying to straighten it out for me but, even with them doing the work, it has still uselessly eaten a lot of my time. I used to recommend Yahoo (Overture) over google, for the ease of use, but will no longer do so. Furthermore, I am talking with my clients about dropping budgets, possibly even pulling out of Yahoo entirely, at least until they gte this thing fixed.

By: Richard Burckhardt

Richard Burckhardt — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:38:32 +0000

Yep. We're not in a good place with Panama, either. Some of our favorite tools in Search Optimizer did not make the transition. The same with some of the old Sponsored Search tools.

I'm sure Yahoo won't be happy to know that we are using Google Adwords tools in their place.

By: Robert Egbert

Robert Egbert — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:20:25 +0000

Our experience has been similar. We had planned a major expansion of our Yahoo advertising, but its been so frustrating dealing with the Yahoo editors that we've cut our Yahoo spending to a minimum.