How does the Yahoo company earn/make money when it seems to do service for free?
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All those little ads on the top and sides of your screen. Also when you search they collect information about you and that becomes valuable targeted advertising.
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its done by search engine optimization\n\ni can do it for you at a reasonable rate\n\nor advertising\n\ndepends\n\nif you want whole year pack it may cost 500$ to ...........$\n\nor u may chose pay per click ads\n\nbut they cost more then paying for year like 500$ ...... pay per click crosses more that 2000$ per year//if for whole year\n\nand rest depends wat ads r u having (text, gif banner, flash animated banner, and wats the size)\n\nwe provide e-email marketting for a reasonable cost\n\nand you may advertise on our site(we hav packs of ads on our site for half year or year)\n\n\nor if you may invest 200$ for having your own site\nthere s good income from having your own site online\n\nand we hav many more advertising and promotional packs at resonable cost like e-email markketing\n\nwe hav more than 1 million dataa for e-emails\n\naskk me at ma yahoo id matrix27bulls\n\nm a web developer from india\n\nhttp://www.mam-x.com\nhttp://www.matrixewebs.com
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First, nobody makes money unless someone clicks a popup/ad and buys something.\nCompanies pay a service to have their ad on thousands of sites, as a banner or popup. As long as people click the ad/popup, the service company can show, statistically, that some people are interested in the product, even if they don't buy anything. A few of the ones that click the ad will eventually buy something. \nExample:\n1000 sites with ad/popup. Company pays $10.00  1 cent each.\n100 people click on the ad, but don't buy anything. \n10 people give their email address, but don't buy yet.\n3 people buy something. Say $50.00 for the item.\nCompany makes $150.00 from $10.00 in advertising.\nAnd that's only 3 out of 1,000 sales.\nThe Company will also make $1.00 or so for selling the 100\nemail addresses to affiliate companies.
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Hello.  They're still in beta and are looking to charge commission when they move out of beta. They say 15%, so I guess it won't be free for ever and yes, there is a catch!  I guess they have to pay for their technology and people somehow.  Good luck with your business though!
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They made chat a pay site, and threw in hotmail bonus with it, but it's not expensive at all.  The question you have is a rumor that got started off that.
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Heres one i went through and I make good money. You dont have to refer anyone or do surveys, read emails, sell. its typing . http://www.webspawner.com/users/enterdataathome/
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The buzzword nowadays is VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol).\n\nFREE PC to regular Phone service. I heard that Yahoo rolled out the beta version of PC to PC phone call service, but if Yahoo can make PC-to-Phone Service free, then it can certainly overtake other companies (MSN, Skype, Vonage to name few) that provide the same service.\n\nThen, how is Yahoo geeting its money back? Ads. YES, ads on their software just like Google did with Gmail.\n\nThe other option is to charge WAY less than other companies. I bet Yahoo can make enough money from ads since millions of users will be downloading their free software to make free phone calls.\n\nMark my word, that day will come soon. If not Yahoo, some other comapany (MS, Ebay, or Google) will offer that service soon FREE of charge.
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Yahoo requires you to login on their website to check your email, so you can see their advertisements. That is how they make money. If you DO want to access it through Outlook, you have to pay Yahoo.
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There is no list available out there of websites willing to advertise. But if you want to earn from an advertising, you can do any or all of these things:\n\n1. Apply to a banner ad network. Banner ad networks allow  you to get paying advertisers. They do all the work for you soliciting advertisers. So you can do what you do best - write content - while they do the saleswork and all you have to do is to choose which advertisers/campaigns you want shown on your website. They can show various types of banners for you - typical 468x60 banner, the bigger leaderboards, boxes, even popups and other formats. You can get paid by CPM (per thousand impressions) or CPC (cost per click). Some campaigns can pay as high as $10 CPM or as low as $0.10 CPM. \n\nThe caveat is they get a percentage of your revenues, which can be anywhere from 60-40 (60% for them, 40% for you) or 50-50. Some of the banner ad networks are BurstMedia.com, Fastclick.com, Tribal Fusion, Advertising.com, among others.\n\n2. Do Contextual Advertising. These are text ads (as opposed to banners) that are highly targeted to the actual webpage - and the better the targeting, the better the performance and more money for you. For example, if you are writing about web design, then the text ads that will be shown are about web design because that is the topic that interests your readerswhat. \n\nApply to Google Adsense program, Yahoo Publisher Network (still in beta), Kontera, Intellxt, Adsonar, among others. Note that while you can display banners with your contextual advertising, most contextual advertising programs such as Yahoo and Google Adsense prohibit running a competing contextual advertising on one page.\n\n3. Cost per Action (CPA). These are typically affiliate programs where you get paid only after the visitor does a predefined action (e.g. sale, leads). It may be $5 for every person that signs up for the program, a 50% commission from the sale generated, or something similar. The key is that there is a certain action that needs to be done, so even if the banner was seen by 100,000 people, you will not be paid by the fact that it was seen by so many people but by the number of people who actually bought the product. Go to Commission Junction, Clickbank, Linkshare, and other cost per performance providers.\n\n4. Sell ads on your own. This is the most difficult as you become your own salesman. You can get a lot of advertisers only if: (a) you have desirable traffic that advertisers covet; and (b) you have traffic. But you get everything, without giving anyone a percentage or share of the earnings.\n\nYou may want to read the article "How to Generate Advertising Revenues for Your Website" at http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol28/adrevenues.htm\n\nHope this helps\nIsabel Isidro\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com
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Lots of people are asking this question. There are loads of scams out there and that's probably why you have the sarcastic answers above. But lots of us do make money using the Internet in ethical and fulfilling ways.\n\nI  have a business I do from home using the Internet. You can see my site at http://www.writershelper.com. \n\nI have a service business and the Web site primarily advertises my business, although it earns money in its own right as well. Some of the links on my site earn me money when people click on them.\n\nMy next step will be to create two other sites that simply earn money without my having to provide a service.\n\nAll of this is quite possible without knowing html or being a designer or having any other specialized technical knowledge.\n\nI have done what I've done with the tools I got from the site below. That site has several high quality free e-books (and a few others that you have to pay for).\n\nBest wishes as you pursue your goal. \n\nP.S.  To respond to the poster below. I am not talking about a no-service site. I'm talking about me not offering a physical service  like my editing. Most sites do not advertise off-line servies. The sites I'm talking about are called infopreneur sites. They are sites on topics people are interested in. They work like magazines off-line. They are full of information on their topics, but they are paid for by advertising. They are very legitimate and with the right research, can be highly profitable.
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i think Yahoo is a big brand name and its not that easy to establish a brand pull on the net where u have n number of choices. Freebies dont matter what matters is yahoo has been here for so long now so it has a distinct advantage in terms on loyalty and awareness
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Yeah they get paid by advertising and when people subscribe to like better services or company's pay them to show there open spots but since hot jobs is yahoo that is where it gets its money.
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I have seen many such sites but none of them turned out to be genuine, they promise you to pay but in the end you get nothing.  However, if you have a good website you can earn money by displaying third party ads/banners, e.g. Google, adbrite, Yahoo publisher etc. pay you for displaying their ads on your website.
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The Service is ON :)\n\nIt says FREE 30 Day Trial\n$5.95/month OR $47.40/yearly\n\nhttp://edit.plus.yahoo.com/plus/welcome
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I think you have to have a website and then direct traffic to Yahoo, look at the source, where it says Earn money ...
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Advertising. You sign up for Google Adsense and you get paid when folks click on the advertising links. The company providing the ad pays a few pennies per view. It's not a lot but it can add up if, like myspace or youtube, you get millions of views.\n\nOf course you also have to pay for the server capacity and bandwidth so that cuts into profits. I doubt it's a whole lot after expenses, however you could be purchased for millions or billions if one of the big guys sees it.\n\nThat's when you really make money.