AdSense Referrals Officially Dead
If you haven’t heard the news, after first limiting which countries were eligible, Google has decided to eliminate the AdSense referrals program. In other words, you won’t be able to make any money by referring someone to the AdSense program.
Personally, I don’t think this is a big deal. I’ve had issues with the program from the start. I know there are a few big earners out there that made money with referrals, but they were typically targeting people “new” to AdSense. And with so many people using AdSense these days, perhaps the market’s mostly dried up anyhow.
Presumably all the ads will go blank and take no space after the deadline passes. It’d be a pain to go back and edit posts and pages where you’ve inserted the (fake) text link versions, for example.
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2 Responses to “AdSense Referrals Officially Dead”
In my opinion, Google has never handled this right anyway. I wrote them multiple times requesting the ability to have standalone text links, etc. They said they didn’t want people to spam them. Lame excuse.
As a result, I was never compensated for a number of people who signed up on my recommendation.
As far as I’m concerned, I’d rather have no referral program at all than a ham-handed implementation like the one they had in place.
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