Adsense Information Blog

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.

Onsite Advertiser Signup Retired

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

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.