Comments on: Yahoo Adding Links to Your Email Content?

By: angel

angel — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:20:55 +0000

Very Unhappy when we found this is appearing in one of our most recent email blasts offering one of our products at a sale price. The link piggy-back link would take our customers to overstock.com or other places offering a similar product at a sale price.
NOT GOOD. IS There a way to prevent them from infiltrating an email?

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:53:23 +0000

Is there any way to stop it? Some flag I can put in the email saying don’t do it in “this” email or “this” portion? I’m trying to have white text on a blue background in our header, but the link yahoo puts in is always blue and I can’t find a way to style it. Thanks a lot, Yahoo!

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:42:02 +0000

@James – Ok, that’s disturbing. I’ve heard of competitive text ads over to the side of the email (deal with that annoyance myself) but haven’t seen it happen from within the content too.

By: James Lamb

James Lamb — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:30:28 +0000

Yeah, we’ve seen it offer up links to other “competitors” in our field. (We’re a non-profit so we’d normally call them colleagues, but in this case, it would appear they’ve purchased these keywords, so to have them appear that way in our fundraising appeals seems downright rude.)