Adsense Now

If you’re outside of North America, Latin America, and Japan, AdSense referrals will be retired.For publishers not located in any of the three regions detailed above, 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.

If you’re confused about what’s written above, then I suggest you pay the Google AdSense blog a visit. It seems they’re retiring referral ads for publishers outside North America, Latin America and Japan. Some of the people I know outside said areas have been earning quite a lot from the AdSense referrals. In fact, if you take a look at this post, you’ll see why it’s quite easy to earn from them. You can blatantly advertise them so people would click on them. With the referral scheme gone for many web masters, their earnings might take a beating this month and onwards.

The greatest repercussion would be trust. Businesses operate on factors related to trust. A traditional business orders raw materials from companies they trust. It’s the same with web enterprises. True, you might see it as overreacting, but some people don’t send just a couple of people down Google’s way through referrals. Take for example, Problogger, which has reportedly displayed the AdSense Referral ad 20 million times or so, thereby padding Google’s earnings.

For those lucky enough to retain their referral ads, you might find that it won’t be worth promoting them as you did before. You see, they’ve removed their old referral scheme:

1. Refer someone who makes $5 in 180 days and get $5
2. Refer someone who makes $100 in 180 days and get $250
3. Refer 25 people who make $100 in 180 days and get $2000

In exchange, the new scheme is that if you refer someone who makes $100 in 180 days, you get $100. True, if, for example, you make 25 referrals, you can now get $2500 instead of $2000, but who’ll be doing some hardball promotion for them now? Not all your referrals would get $100 within 180 days. Removing the $5 referral means you’ll get nothing for those you referred who earned less than $100 within 180 days. In short, you may just be doing promotion for nothing. Well, whatever, Google. We don’t know why you’ve come to this decision but perhaps we’ll tackle that next time.

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