Yahoo Publisher Network Banning Accounts Over Non-US Traffic

I’m sure you’ve heard enough complains about Google Adsense banning publishers’ accounts, but I just read a post about YPN start banning for excessive clicks generated by international traffic. Personally, I’m little bit worried because a bulk of my site traffic is from other countries, like 40 of them. I hope YPN comes up with some filtering system instead of banning accounts for non-US traffic.

This is how a typical termination email looks like:

We have terminated your Yahoo! Publisher Network beta account [ACCOUNT ID] for breach of the Terms and Conditions and/or Program Policies. Your breach includes but may not be limited to sending traffic from users located outside the United States, in violation of Section 11(l) of the Terms and Conditions. In accord with Section 6(a), we will not include such amounts in your payment. We have refunded amounts generated from the non-US users to our advertisers and will pay any remaining amount owed to you in accord with the Terms and Conditions.