Adsense Information Blog

Last year seemed to be an experiment, when the New Pricing Structure For Adsense Referrals was introduced. However this year, Google Adsense has decided to end that price structure and carry on with the one they had previously. This did come as a unpleasant surprise for some.

These pricing changes took place during the last week of January. A referred user who reached $100 within 180 days of signing up and who removes all payments holds before the change occurred, generated earnings of $250 for the referring publisher. Any referred user who met this conversion criteria after the change will only generate $100 in earnings for the referring publisher.

However there came a new addition to this news, which was rather disappointing and shocking. If you are an adsense publisher, and you’re not from North America, Latin America or Japan, then the referrals promoting Adsense, will retire soon for you! The reason for retiring Adsense referral for these countries has been stated in terms of “Not Meeting Expectations”. For some reason Adsense team were hoping much more better results from other countries which failed. So the decision of retiring Adsense referrals from rest of the countries had to be taken.

However, all the other referrals for other products as Google Pack, Mozilla Firefox etc are still available in your Adsense Account. So it’s time that you replace the existing code of referral for adsense with some other referral code.

Google Adsense has very high standards and they maintain it by continuously reevaluating their existing features to ensure effectiveness of the product as a whole. It looks like “Onsite Adveriser Sigh Up” feature, which allowed advertisers to sign up for Adwords campaign directly on your site, wasn’t performing very well, because Google Adsense team has decided to gracefully retire this feature.

They rather believe in supporting and developing the features that drive better monetization results for publishers. Even if that has to be done by retiring some previous features like advertiser sign up on site.

I think many publishers have made links that actually lead to some customizable Onsite Advertiser Sign Up page. News is that all those links will now redirect to the main page of Google Adwords instead. However adwords advertisers can still target your websites. This will definitely cause some inconvenience.

Frankly, i think this is a good move. I think this makes the ads look much cleaner now. There will be no more “Advertise Your Site” text with ads

Alright, we keep on seeing such things from Google Adsense. Few days back we had this Google box besides the ads, replacing the word Google in “Ads By Google”

Now i see some more changes, and you know what, this is the coolest change. I really like it. No irritating, Ads By Google link on top of ads. Instead you see Ads By Google in bottom of an advertisement bopx and that too in a very stylish way.

Here is how it looks like

Well this certainly looks much better than the previous ads. However i do not see this on every advertisements out there. But do get a chance to see this once in a while. The Big G Adsense is experimenting with the ads for sure. Probably something better for us, in the future.

It was believed that generating income out of referrals was a tough job. Lol, for me it was almost impossible. But there is a good news now

Google Adsense has revised it’s pricing structure for adsene referrals.

Here are the details:

Adsense Referrals:

• When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns their first $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5.
• When that same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payment, you will be credited with an additional $250.
• If, in any 180-day period, you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100 within 180 days of their respective sign-ups and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).

Adwords Referrals:

• When an advertiser you refer spends $5 within 90 days of sign-up (in addition to the $5 sign-up fee) you will be credited with $5.
• When that same advertiser spends $100 within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with an additional $40.
• If, in any 180 day period, you refer 20 advertisers who each spend more than $100 within 90 days of their respective sign-ups, you will be awarded a $600 bonus (bonus payments are limited to 1 per year).

The rules however follow as they were in the TOS. you cannot click your own refferals and neither would you be paid by doing so. Banned! Probably yes!

The new pricing structure actually applies to the publishers who have reffered but who have not yet reached one of the new earning/spend thresholds.
That’s even cooler.

For me, well two days back, i removed referrals from all my sites. I though it was a waste of space.

Alas, back to work now and place all the referrals back again.

Every other day, webmasters had lot of discussions regarding the google ads placement along with some images. People believed it improves your adsense (click through rate) CTR and also makes people think it to be a link. It was a true fact that people saw rise in their income with the image integration besides adsense ads. However repeatedly, the Adsense team discouraged this practice to most of the webmaster, but sadly no one took it ever so seriously.

But that’s history now. Google Adsense have updated their Terms Of Services with a new rule that you simply cannot integrate images alongside google ads in anyway. It’s now mentioned clearly in their TOS that no images can be placed near Google ads where it appears that the image is somehow related to the adsense ads. Don’t think you can somehow ignore this rule because Adsense team is upto it and won’t hear your reasons for using images alongsides. They have even mentioned that it doesn’t matter if there is a border between the image and the ads, images must not be used in a anyway alonside ads. So don’t try to act clever now.

An example of what image integration is…or rather was:

This is a complete No No! from Google Adsense now. Time to change your ads i guess