YSM coupons cannot be easily found nowadays and I only managed to collect only few working links. So here are the links.

Coupon URL: Free $80 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ10

Coupon URL: Free $100 Credit
Promo Code: US2334

Coupon URL: Free $100 Credit
Promo Code: US2295

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: US1854

Update (September 19th):

Coupon URL: Free $75 Credit
Promo Code: US2336

Coupon URL: Free GBP 50 Credit (UK)
Promo Code: GB0283

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: US2345

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: US2335

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: US2333

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: USPX11

Coupon URL: Free $25 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ21

Coupon URL: Free $25 Credit
Promo Code: US2026

Coupon URL: Free $25 Credit
Promo Code: US2027

Coupon URL: Free $25 Credit
Promo Code: US2028

Coupon URL: Free $25 Credit
Promo Code: US2029

Enjoy while they last!

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How Your Bids Work

The new minimum bids are a little bit like auction house reserve prices, and can be based on multiple factors, such as your keyword quality and the keyword’s value—or how much we think that keyword is worth. Here’s a look at the two main factors:

Quality - High quality generally means that your ads are being clicked more often, relative to your competitors. We try to reward quality with higher rankings and lower costs, and now, potentially, with lower minimum bids.

Value - We look at a number of things to determine what a keyword is worth: for example, how many advertisers are bidding on your keyword, and what they’re willing to pay for it.

A keyword term becomes “active”— or eligible for display—when your bid is equal to or greater than your minimum bid. Keywords become inactive when your bid falls below your minimum. You will be notified in an alert on your Account Dashboard if the minimum bid for a keyword increases above your current bid, and you’ll have a grace period of up to several days to raise your bid to keep your keyword active.

As this change bring several uncertainties to advertisers' current campaigns, it is advisable to stick to few rules of thumb to keep the campaigns effective.

- Get to know your keyword and its value
- Improve your ad quality.
- Keep updated with account interface
- bids and continually monitor any changes
- Try Advanced Match for broader exposure and see how it's affected by the new system
- Perform ads testing and optimize

Learn more about the changes at YSM.

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What's the catch?

In order to be entitled to the promotion you are required to deposit a minimum of $30. Make sure you never advertise with Yahoo in the last 13 months otherwise you won't be able to use the coupon. The qualifications might change from time to time, so always read the fine prints (usually at the bottom page) before signing up.

If you don't really bother about the next part and too eager to look out for the coupon simply skip this part and jump to the bottom of this post.

Registration steps

As this is my first post related to Yahoo Search Marketing, I think it's a good idea for me to give a brief walk-through on how to register with YSM. More importantly I can use this post as a reference when somebody ask me things related to the registration. Anyway, here the registration steps go.

1. Click on any promotion links at the bottom of this page. In order to make sure the promotion is still valid and not expired, take a look at the self-serve sign-up plan (picture below). If you choose for $100 coupon, the same value should appear. Sometimes, the value might be different, most probably due to new promotion (I used to come across such an occurrence). If nothing appear, that means the coupon is already expired. So, pick up new promotion links and don't forget to let me know so that I can update the list.

2. Instead of being brought up directly to the activation & billing page, you are required to fill up things related to the advertising campaign. Don't worry about the details entered as you may change the details later on. Basically, you need to decide the market, choose keywords related to advertising, your daily budget, your bid for a click and customize the content of your ads.

3. So, after that you need to set up your account (username, password, contact information etc). Make sure everything is filled up correctly.

4. Finally, make sure the total you should get is correct. You can make the payment via credit card or Paypal. During my first registration I was only required to pay $5 for activation (now, minimum is $30).

The credit will not show up right away in your account, usually it takes between 3 to 5 days. Anyway I was lucky at that moment as I got it below 48 hours.

Yahoo! Search Marketing Coupons

Ok, done with the registration step. So here is the list after the jump :)

Don't forget, if you find any promotion links which are no longer active, give me a shout so that I can keep this post current.

Update: Most of the coupons had already expired. Please visit the following link to see more updated coupons.

Coupon URL: Free $80 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ10

Coupon URL: Free $100 Credit
Promo Code: US2300

Coupon URL: Free $100 Credit
Promo Code: US2285

Coupon URL: Free $100 Credit
Promo Code: US2295

Coupon URL: Free $100 Credit
Promo Code: US2283

Coupon URL: Free $100 Credit
Promo Code: US2300

Coupon URL: Free $75 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ15

Coupon URL: Free $75 Credit
Promo Code: US1522

Coupon URL: Free £60 Credit
Promo Code: GB0304 (Only valid for UK residents)

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ19

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: US2261

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ13

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ12

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: US2001

Coupon URL: Free $50 Credit
Promo Code: US2080

Coupon URL: Free $25 Credit
Promo Code: USCJ11

I hope you will find to be useful.

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