Oct 15 2006
Why YPN might not be too interested in accepting international webmasters
Have you ever thought about how much extra work Yahoo would have to do in order to accept international webmasters and still manage their publishers network properly?
Think about this:
I have received 10,000 spam submissions on my blogs, my directories, my forums as well as from this contact form.
Now:
I have run about 300 of the IP addresses thru this website to country tool and here is what I have found:
- not one spam submission was from the US
- none from Canada, the UK, Australia or Western Europe
- 80% were from Asia (Pakistan, India, China etc.)
- the rest was from Eastern Europe, Africa, Central and South America …
Now: who wants to throw the first punch and call me a racist for pointing out these numbers? Anyone?
Have you guys read the problems Google Adsense encounters with click fraud?
Imagine Yahoo! allowing in international webmasters. What if Yahoo! decided to only allow a few European countries, Australia, Canada in. I can see the headlines already:
“Yahoo! only wants affiliates from white countries”.
If you are not in the US, then let me tell you that Google Adsense works far better than YPN anyways.
4 responses so far
4 Responses to “Why YPN might not be too interested in accepting international webmasters”
It’s YPN’s choice as to whether or not to expand the program internationally - I believe they lose more by not expanding, but hey, it’s their business.
But coming back to your comment about where spam originates from : Look at email spam, and statistics from spamhaus - Of the top spammers in the world, four are Russian, one Russian American, 3 North American, one from Israel and one from Hong Kong. In terms of spam origin, the US tops the list.
And an interesting sidelight - because of the laws in the US, and general tightening down by ISP’s and service providers, US spammers use either compromised PC’s, or servers located in other countries where the laws are lax - that includes China, Russia and Latin America.
Not to mention that over 80% of the spam relates to credit cards, porn, drugs and the like being promoted to the US, from US providers - other nationals aren’t eligible to buy.
Back now to the spam you get on the blog. Sure, you might have huge percentages from other location ip’s - but have you followed through to the sites they link to, and checked out what’s on offer? I’d bet it’s US spam, camouflaged through proxies / other means to seem as though it’s from overseas.
Hmm, that is interesting. I really don’t have any access to data regarding overall spam. Could you link me to one of your sources?
Mike
Hi
Just out of curiosity, I collected the list of spam messages I got over the last 5 days - copied them to a text file, have the zip up on my blog site. If you’re interested, the link is here : http://www.2cworth.com/files/spamlist.zip
No analysis yet, but the first impression is of US targeted offers.
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