Say Goodbye to Google Adsense Referral
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I guess its Good bye to Google Adsense Referral, they will soon stop paying publishers outside their selected regions.
Below is an excerpt from the Google Adsense Blog:
For publishers not located in any of the three regions (North America, Latin America, and Japan), we’ll soon be retiring referrals promoting AdSense. We’ve found that this referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in these regions. Again, please keep in mind that you can still generate referrals for the other products listed under the ‘Referrals’ section of your AdSense Setup tab.
Soon, you’ll no longer see the option to create a referral button for AdSense in your account, although existing buttons will display as normal. This specific referral type will then be retired during the last week of January - any users who meet the conversion criteria (reaching $100 in earnings within 180 days of sign-up and removing all payment holds) before the change will generate earnings of $250 for the referring publishers. Any conversions which occur after this change is made will not be recorded in your account. You may wish to begin replacing any existing referrals promoting AdSense with referrals for another product or an AdSense for content unit. [source]
Well, no problem. I am not earning much from it away…
Update (January 19 2008): Google responds to the reactions from webmasters regarding the Google Adsense update.
You may have seen our recent post about the upcoming changes to referrals promoting AdSense. Since we made this announcement, we’ve received a number of responses about the program being dependent on the location of the referring publisher. We’ve carefully considered your feedback, and have decided to modify the original plan.
The changes to referrals promoting AdSense will now depend on where your users are located, regardless of your location as a publisher. You’ll earn $100 for every user you refer to AdSense who is located in North America, Latin America or Japan when they generate $100 in AdSense revenue within 180 days and they remove all payment holds. You’ll no longer be paid for users you refer who are located elsewhere. These changes will go into effect the last week of January.
The option to add a referral unit for AdSense will reappear in your account when you target any referral unit to Japan and/or any countries in North America and Latin America. To ensure payment for valid conversions, we recommend that you check the targeting settings on your current AdSense referral units. [source]
Thats good news! I guess I have to focus my getting my traffic more from Japan, and countries in North and Latin America.
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shane Says:
I haven’t earned any from referrals.. I’m not earning in my ads either.. I wonder how much you’re making for it right now.. ;)
Jacob Says:
I was happy with Google Adsense and Adwords. I regret to say that the decision taken by Google has made me change my mind. It was the referrals or the user’s promotion that helped Google gain market on this. All the users who referred Google spent a good amount of time putting up write on website and blogs explaining the Google Adsense system. I spent time in putting up blogs or websites and educating people. All the hard work every one has done is now Zero. I strongly protest against this. I am planning to shift from Google completely to a new PPC service like Yahoo or Bidvertiser. I do not see any point in sticking to Google because now I think they will start making more changes and you may never know what Google will come up with tomorrow. It is a Tight SLAP for all the webmasters who are not from North America, Latin America, and Japan.
It was the users who promoted Google, now Google thinks it can work without them.
aj batac Says:
We’re not earning much from Google Adsense Referral too. So, no worries. ;)
jimmychen Says:
pulling the plug on another source of income will definitely tick the community on those areas. yep, referrals are almost unprofitable to me or any of my sites. but anyway, i think somebody is getting greedy lately.
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