Google Delivers A Blow To Adsense Publishers

January 8th, 2008 Posted in News

As if Google hasn’t wreaked enough havoc these past few months, today the Adsense team announced their intentions to modify the Adsense referral rules. You might be thinking they’ve decided to increase payouts for those who’ve been sending motivated Adsense publishers their way - think again. Now I warn you, what’s to follow may be a little shocking to those who’ve been successfully dabbling with Adsense referrals. Take a seat before reading on.

Last year, Google adopted a payment system for Adsense referrals which alloted all Adsense publishers the opportunity to earn a nice sum of money for referrals they sent Google’s way. The system worked a little something like this:

You refer Bob to Adsense, Bob makes $5 within 180 days, he also scores you $5
Let’s say Bob makes $100 within 180 days, Google awards you $250
You refer Bob along with 24 other people to Adsense - they all make $100 within 180 days - you get a $2,000 bonus

Now that we’re all caught up, let’s see how Google’s decided to spin this around.

You refer Bob to Adsense, Bob makes $100 within 180 days, you make $100

Most of you are probably thinking WTF. Don’t worry, you’re among thousands of Adsense publishers thinking the same thing. I’m sorry to inform you that the cruelty doesn’t stop there. Foreign publishers - brace yourselves.

Unfortunately, Google has decided to bar all publishers living outside North America, Japan, and Latin America from participating in the Adsense referral program. How Google came to this decision is beyond my understanding. I mean, there are undoubtedly numerous publishers who have made Google good money from these barred areas. Why Google’s decided to sever their financial contributions is beyond me.

The onslaught of this news has really got me questioning whether some of the people at Google are actually qualified to hold their respective positions. How in the world can you bar people from making YOU money based on their geographical locations? It would seem loads more sense to me to bar those without the appropriate sites from participating in the Adsense referrals program. If you have a How To Make Money Online blog that’s sending Google tons of referrals, where’s the sense in keeping Adsense referrals off it just because its owner lives in Germany? NONE!!

To wrap up this post, I would like to directly address Google. Google, you’re making very dumb and rash decisions. You’re annoying many people to the point where they’re considering entirely abandoning they’re Adsense publisher accounts. Stop playing these stupid games before you drive away all of your publishers.

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