Adsense Now

Google AdSense seems to have heard the outrage accompanied by their removal of referrals for Google AdSense for publishers outside North America, Japan, and Latin America. This late January, AdSense has issued a statement of their new referral rules for publishers outside the said territories. According to the AdSense blog, as long as your referral came from North America, Japan, and Latin America, even if you’re located elsewhere, your referrals would still count. Referrals from other territories would be considered void. You can make $100 for each referral located in these places as soon as they make $100 and remove their payment holds via entering their PIN numbers sent by AdSense.

Furthermore, there are changes to the payment structure of other AdSense referral programs, first of which is the Google Pack Referral. If, as of current, publishers earn up to $2 for every Google Pack referral they make who runs the pack for the first time, from the third of week of February onwards, the maximum you can earn is $1 per referral. Firefox referrals coming from China will also see a decrease in monetary returns.

In other news, I was so surprised a few days ago when I received a notification from Google about the PIN mailer they sent me. As far as I knew, you would have to have a minimum of $50 in your AdSense account before you’re sent a PIN. I only have $25 in my account. It seems Google AdSense is sending all publishers with at least $10 in their accounts their PIN numbers. Great move by AdSense! At least you can cash out as soon as you reach the $100 mark. Now if only they lower the cash-out amount, that would benefit the rest of us low Google AdSense earners.

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