Adsense Confusion

Okay, this isn’t really a tutorial, its just help on the latest Adsense Confusion that has happened.

Basically, its about the Adsense For Referrals.

So Google decided to cancel Adsense for Referrals for any non-US publishers. People were really down about this, some even depended on this for a lot of their income because of the $250 offer they got for referring a person who earns $100 in 180 days. Obviously, many people didn’t appreciate this decision and Google must have received quite a few e-mails about the subject.

It only took Google a week or two to change their decision. However, they weren’t changing it completely back to normal. They had decided that you are allowed to use Adsense for Referrals now, but only referrals from Japan, North America and anywhere in Latin America will actually count. Its still a bit better, but it was certainly fine before they decided to stick their nose in and mess it up.

They have also decided to modify some of the payments for the Referrals. From the third week of February 2008, instead of earning $2 per success Google Pack referral, you will now only earn $1. Thats a real shame.

Also, they are reducing Firefox Referrals payments from China only. That means if a firefox referral is from China, you’re likely to get less earnings. They haven’t announced how much lower it will actually be.

Hopefully that clears up a bit of confusion for you. Incase you didn’t receive the e-mail from them, I’ve pasted it below:

“Hello AdSense publisher,

We are writing to give you an important follow-up to the changes we announced earlier this month to the referrals to AdSense program. Since announcing the changes, we’ve received a number of responses about the program being dependent on the location of the referring publisher rather than the referred user. After carefully considering this feedback, we have decided to modify our planned changes.

Specifically, you will have the option to add a referral unit for AdSense within 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.

We’d also like to let you know about upcoming changes to the referrals programs for Google Pack and Firefox:

Google Pack: Currently, you can earn up to $2 when a user downloads and runs Google Pack for the first time after being referred through your link or button. Starting the third week of February, each successful Pack referral will earn up to $1. This change will apply to all referrals for Google Pack and is independent of user location or publisher location.

Firefox: We will also be reducing payments for Firefox referrals from China during the third week of February. This specific referral payment change will only affect installations from users in China. As with referrals to AdSense, this is independent of your location as a publisher.

We understand that these changes may decrease revenue for some of you currently participating in these referrals programs. While it is our goal to help publishers earn as much as possible with the AdSense program, like any other referrals advertiser, we are constantly evaluating our campaigns to make them effective and sustainable.

Again, thank you for your feedback and support of the referrals program.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team”

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