AdSense or Yahoo YPN on Joomla and Mambo

Joomla and Mambo are the coolest open source content management systems around now. Both of these systems comes with default component and module for banner management, however features provided by this component are very basic. The banner module shows the banners at the specific location configured from admin console. You can setup multiple banners and these banners (you can use it for AdSense or ypn ) are shown in rotation.

However with default banner module major deficiency is having more than one banner on the site. Its said that there is way to copy the banner module and be able to have more than one banner being displayed on site. Still its near impossible to specify particular AdSense or ypn ad at specific banner.

Other deficiency which I think is major one is inability to be able to place AdSense or yahoo yp ads in the content itself. Joomla or Mambo doesn’t have built in support for this. There are some open source mambots/component/modules available which help doing it. The Yahoo YPN mambot is very good for showing Yahoo YPN ads inside the content item. It has features to have ads shown on all content items or user can select manual placements.

Yahoo YPN revenue sharing

Yahoo YPN is just like google adsense and right now is in beta version as yahoo is testing out its services.

What is most striking factor in beta is payouts, Yahoo YPN pays upto 200% more than adsense. With smart pricing in effect google adsense earnings for most publishers must have sinked to bottom earning them next to nothing.

One biggest disappointment for broader publisher community is that Yahoo YPN is in beta and is available to only few people and that too only in USA. So most of world publisher crowd is kept away from this high paying program as of now.

Mambo and Joomla are best in SEO

I have personally tried various open source software available for CMS and/or web publishing including wordpress, mambo, joomla, phpbb (and other forums) and I have to conclude to myself that best SEO services are offered by Mambo and Joomla

However, one must note that Mambo and Joomla by default doesn’t have great SEO features, and it is not even enabled by default. The basic SEO feature in Mambo and Joomla just organizes the URL friendlier for search engine to gulp, but doesn’t give any keyword benefit from content. When default SEO is turned on in Mambo or Joomla, the URL of content page looks more like www.seodon.com/section/cat/id.

Link Exchange Benifits

Did you know that ‘link popularity’ has a major affect on where your website appears in search engine results? Put simply, the more sites that link to you, the higher your link popularity.

This is especially true if the linking site is similar in content to yours.