MySpace and Yahoo Publisher Network Don't Mix

MySpace, a very popular website for many people, has become a way to make a quick buck these days by providing services to the massive MySpace community. You provide them with fancy graphics or ways to customize their profiles, and scatter advertisements throughout the site, and you make some money, but now Yahoo is fighting back by cancelling accounts where the majority of the traffic comes from MySpace.

MySpace has long been a marketing tool and a great way to drive traffic to other sites or advertising. But if you happen to be monetizing with MySpace and using Yahoo Publisher Network, you may get your account suspended, even if you have non-MySpace sites on your account as well.
On Friday, multiple publishers received either phone calls or emails from YPN advising them that their traffic quality was low and their accounts would be suspended as of May 1, 2006. Affected publishers would still receive their earnings - less any invalid or international clicks - so they would not be losing all their income (as usually happens when someone is suspended from AdSense).

I doubt this will end the efforts of those trying to make a quick buck off of MySpace users, but it did create a pretty big buzz online today, especially for those that potentially were making hundreds of dollars a month thanks to traffic from the MySpace community.

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