This is a question I answered at the Wealthy Affiliate forum.
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In the near future I want to set up an Yahoo Search Marketing Account. Today I was reading a lot of stuff on the Yahoo website.
Do I understand it well that I have to create for every geographical market a different Yahoo account?
I saw I can target United States and Canada. But if I want to target United Kingdom, I have to create a new account? Is it not possible to target different geographic markets in the same account?
Can some of you explain me more about this and tell me a little bit about your experiences with Yahoo Search Marketing?
And here is my answer.
Contact their customer service and tell them you want your main account (master) for what ever country you live in, like the USA, and you want a UK account too. They’ll put it under your Master account. And any other countries too.
Yes, they are different accounts under your Master account.
It’s not set up like Adwords where you can pick the countries to market in the same campaign.
If you decide to add other countries, be sure to tell them you want the interface in English.
They screw that up all the time.
I have asked them a dozen times to change my Austria, German and French account interfaces to English. Still haven’t.
The good thing is I’m learning how to speak German and French. Well kinda, I use Google translate.
Their interface is slower then snails and you will have to contact customer service to stop automatic deposit when your account is low on funds.
When you first sign up, they only give you the option for automatic deposit.
Sign up for it, don’t run any ads, then contact customer service.
If you don’t, Yahoo will charge your CC or withdrawn from your debit account whatever they think is appropriate based on your daily budget.
For example, my budget on Adwords is $1,000 per campaign. It doesn’t matter as far a billing goes. I do that trying to get every click I can.
With Yahoo, if you budget $1,000, they will charge your CC or debit card about $500 or so. I don’t remember the exact formula but whatever it is, they claim they do it so your ads will keep running. It’s a pain.
And, in Adwords, when I want to dramatically increase my clicks, or get rid of the competition, I’ll bid $10 per keyword.
Never ever do I even get close to paying that much on Adwords.
If you do that with Yahoo search, Yahoo just may charge you $10 per click if that’s what you bid.
I never trust them.
Good Luck