Google Toolbar and Firefox referrals now available to non-US publishers
Those of you who, like myself, are not based in the US will be happy to know that Google has finally made its Firefox/Toolbar referral program available to non-US AdSense publishers. This program allows publishers to earn money (up to a maximum of $1 per referral — but note it can easily be less) when someone downloads Google's version of Firefox with the Google Toolbar preloaded.
An example of a typical referral button is shown on the right, and you've no doubt seen these pop up all over the place on various websites. You can place a single referral button per referral program on your pages. Right now there are two referral programs available: one for AdSense itself, and one for the Firefox/Toolbar combo. So you can place one button for each on the page.
One thing I wish Google offered was a text-only link for the referrals. Not everyone wants to put a big fat button on their pages.
To get your referral button, just log into the AdSense management console. You'll see a new “Firefox” tab under the “Referrals” section of the console. Select the button format you want and paste the code (as always, you can't change the code Google generates for you) into the appropriate spot on your web page.
You may find my articles How to Detect Internet Explorer and Masquerading Your Browser useful for conditionally showing the referral button.
Don't let the referrals distract you too much; you still need to concentrate on content creation and traffic generation to make real money with AdSense.
Eric Giguere is the author of Make Easy Money with Google, a real (printed!) introductory AdSense book for non-technical people, available at all fine bookstores. For more information, subscribe to his AdSense newsletter and get a free bonus AdSense traffic tip just for subscribing. Or add the book directly to your Amazon shopping cart for easy ordering!
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