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Yahoo! Search Marketing

The name emerged in 2005 but the product was the original PPC provider. In the 1990s it was known as GoTo and then became Overture. Yahoo! bought Overture and then rebranding it for a third time to Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions. YSM for short.

Google AdWords dominance boosted by US Authorities?

Failure of Yahoo! & Google partnership could make things worse rather than better.

Review of Attacat’s 2007 Predictions part 2

Continuing the entertainment.

Review of Attacats 2007 Predictions part 1

Have Attacat's predictions for 2007 panned out as expected?

Phishing E-Mails

Keep an eye out for scam e-mails looking for your search engine advertising account logins.

Cheaper Clicks on Yahoo! Search Marketing

YSM have reduced their minimum required bid on many phrases from 10p to 5p. It's good news but we argue that they have nothing to lose by reducing it to 1p.

New YSM Search Platform Open to all US Advertisers

The much talked about "Panama" update of the Yahoo! (formerly Overture) pay-per-click search marketing platform is now available to all US advertisers. Great news for local advertisers.

PPC Beta for Yahoo!

Mobile Yahoo! search adverts Beta and slimmed down banner adverts

Overture Keyword Tool Basics

Using the Overture keyword tool for researching UK search behaviour.

YSM Panama Update has Started

Yahoo Search Marketing may have started their update but there is not any great haste. A UK migration is expected in mid 2007.

Yahoo! Search Marketing Trialing Mobile Adverts

YSM have started a trial of PPC ads for mobile search. Google are also gearing up...

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