Campaign setup

Campaign fields

Yahoo campaigns follow the same structure as Google campaigns: keywords, domain filter, click target (Ads), dwell range, and schedule window.

Yahoo sponsored results appear at the top and bottom of results pages. The engine targets top-of-page ads by default. Use domain filters to restrict which advertisers are clicked.

Watch Logs for consent dialogs, dead proxies, and unexpected redirects to Yahoo login pages — these indicate the proxy or region is being challenged.

Task types

Search tasks are the standard mode for Yahoo — the engine navigates to Yahoo results for your keyword and clicks a sponsored listing.

Direct tasks send traffic straight to a URL without going through Yahoo search. Useful for direct landing page visits or warming up a URL before a search campaign.

Warmup tasks run profile-aging sessions (normal browsing, no ad clicks) before assigning a profile to Yahoo click work. Use these with Trusted Identities profile mode.

AI Agent tasks run a fully autonomous session guided by a prompt you write. The AI plans and executes every action — search query, result selection, on-site behaviour — without a fixed route. Requires an AI provider API key in the AI tab. See the Google Ads guide for full AI provider details.

Schedule windows

Set a start and end hour to restrict when workers run — the bot pauses outside the window and resumes automatically. Use weekday selectors to mirror real business traffic patterns.

Yahoo ad inventory tends to peak during business hours in the target market. Scheduling within those windows often produces cleaner session patterns.

Pacing and concurrency

Start at 1–2 concurrent workers while you validate the setup. Yahoo inventory on specific keywords can be thin — fewer workers per keyword avoids exhausting the result set.

Inter-session wait (loop wait time) of 60–120 seconds between iterations is reasonable for Yahoo. Reduce if your proxies handle it without triggering blocks.