Say Goodbye to AdSense Referrals Program
- Posted by Badi Jones on July 1st, 2008 - Comment on this Post »
Well, Google is doing it again. As if the payout drop from $250 to $100 wasn’t bad enough, Google is ending the AdSense Referrals program in about a month (End of August 2008 – see details).
If you didn’t find a good alternative for AdSense referrals last time, then you better get busy now. Though $300 of my earnings for this month did come from AdSense referrals, I did learn a valuable lesson last time, and spread out my portfolio quite a bit.
A much higher percentage of my monthly income now comes from my own products, though there is still good money to be made from product referrals (Thank goodness for Text-Link-Ads … “knock on wood”. ).
So if you haven’t done so yet, I’d suggest that you diversify, because all good things must come to an end (or at least a slow-down) at some point, and you don’t want to get caught off guard.
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July 1st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
My referral income is in-line with yours and I will miss it for sure. I signed up for the G-affiliate program and was a bit shaken by the terms of service, not as payment friendly as the g-referrals 2.0 program.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
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July 14th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
As I read somewhere, Google is doing 20/5 philosophy on it’s search engine, which actually means that if at least 20% of users is using some feature they will keep that feature in the “main windows”, and if at least 5% of users is using some feature they will keep that feature in the “advanced window”.
I suppose they have preety much the same logic on keeping other features like this (refferal program)…