» Not My Week - MSN AdCenter Glitches

It seems like this is the week of technical glitches for me, yesterday I wrote about how AuctionAds had some earnings reporting issues and today it looks like MSN AdCenter is having some problems.

I noticed an e-mail in my inbox from MSN AdCenter notifying me that some of my changes had not been approved and that I needed to login to make some adjustments. The strange thing was, I haven’t made any changes to the account since early January and even those were minor and were online last I checked. I logged in anyway to see what was up, and to look for what was wrong. Just as I had suspected, when I logged in, everything was on the up and up. There were no keywords that had been rejected. The first time I got one of these e-mails was back in December alerting me of the same thing but on a different campaign. I guess this is why MSN AdCenter is still in beta! Hopefully they’ll iron out these erroneous notification e-mails.

It also looks like Yahoo! has been sending out notification e-mails by accident to Yahoo Publisher Network members:

We were experiencing some problems with the compliance manager status page but we resolved it yesterday. For anyone who got an email regarding YPN’s compliance policy, you should log-in to the portal to double check and make sure you do not have any outstanding actions. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks
YahooSarah

Like I said before, thats what beta testing is for! Unlike many Google products that stay in the beta stage for many years, I expect both MSN AdCenter and the Yahoo Publisher Network to fix up most of their issues and be released publicly. Microsoft has made some great strides with MSN AdCenter. When I was first beta testing it, the interface was a horrible eye-candy form over function mess. Today, its at least usable. I’m also glad they changed all the terminology so it actually makes sense. Campaigns, and Ad Groups, not Campaigns and Orders!

Hopefully next week everything will just work ;)

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