Adsense Referral Program
Yesterday(Nov 4, 2005) Google added a new feature to their advertising program. The search engine giant now allows current Adsense publishers to refer new users to the service.
Straight from google’s mouth:
Referrals offer you a new revenue opportunity while increasing your users’ awareness of useful products and services. Adding a referral button to your website enables you to generate additional earnings by directing users to download or sign up for products such as AdSense.
The referal happens when a potential adsense publisher clicks on a referal image from your webpage. You can see an example of a Google Adsense referal image in the lower right-hand corner of this page. Yes, I know it isn’t that graphically appealing, but it works. Google offers 22 different images to choose from. Different shapes and sizes are available as well as some designed to entice users to install Firefox with Google Toolbar. All 22 images basically look the same except for a few differences in text and size.
The appeal for adsense publishers to include the referal image is that Google will send you a 100 dollar check when each new referral of yours generates their first 100 dollars. Also, whenver a user installs Firefox with Google Toolbar from your link and runs Firefox for the first time, you will receive up to 1 dollar. Obviously you must be using the firefox images for this to work.
Although very unattractive, the Google Adsense referral plan is quite appealing. It makes you wonder what other products Adsense will be serving via their referral program down the road.
Tags: google, adsense, advertising, referral, firefox, google toolbar
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In concept, the Google Adsense campaign sounds like a sweet deal, just sit back and get rich as people click your ads. We’ve all heard the stories, too, the ones about the guy that pulls in a thousand or two a month from his Google ads. But really, have you EVER met anyone in person that’s getting any income at all from Google ads? Seems like they get up to $20 or $30, then -nothing-. Sorry to be so pessimistic, but I just can’t help thinking that the only people getting rich are the people at Google. But, in the same breath, I wish you much luck and wealth from the ads!
Well Tim,
I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one. I have physically met someone that was making a decent chunk-0-change from google ads.
As for me, I have yet to see the fruits of my ad placement labor. I guess my two visitors a day, across all my sites, just don’t find my ads that interesting. Go figure.