I've just read about a huge change in AdSense terms and conditions which is going to greatly affect the earnings of many AdSense publishers. These changes affect everyone who publishes referral ads for Google's AdSense program, and promises to be an even bigger slap in the face for those of us who live outside North America, Latin America and Japan.
There are two main changes to the AdSense program for ad publishers:
Changes to payments through the referral system
About a year ago, experimental changes were introcuded to allow AdSense referrers to earn good money through recommending Google's advertisement service:
- If you referred someone to AdSense who made $5 within 180 days you would get a payment of $5.
- If you referred someone who made $100 within 180 days you would get $250
- If you referred 25 people who made $100 within a 180 day period you would get a bonus payment of $2000
But the changes get worse for publishers outside North America, Latin America and Japan...
AdSense referrals are retired for publishers outside North America, Latin America and Japan
WHAT IS THIS GOOGLE!
When I first read about this on ProBlogger, I could barely believe it was true, and had to see with my own eyes. Here is what the AdSense blog has to say about the changes:
- If you're outside of North America, Latin America, and Japan, AdSense referrals will be retired.I'm truly shocked.
For publishers not located in any of the three regions detailed above, we'll soon be retiring referrals promoting AdSense. We've found that this referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in these regions. (Read the full entry)
No doubt, AdSense will lose a great deal of its own income from restricting its referrals to these three areas. I myself will be greatly affected by this loss since I live in the UK, as I'm sure many more of you will be too.
Lately Google seem to be upsetting a lot of people with their restrictions on content. Now that their popular advertising program is being affected too, many more of us are losing all faith in Google.
I wonder what the next big Google slap will be?
Please do leave your comments and opinions below. If I hear any more about the changes to the AdSense program, I will be sure to post it here to advise you of the situation.
I´m starting on adsense this year and this are not good news :(
ReplyDeleteby the way Amanda, could be possible that the template you helped me constructing as some problem with adsense cod?
because I have a problem, I can only ad 1 tip of adsense button, if on my side bar I have the 120x120 and I put other like 648x60 on the posts, it will always appear the 120x120 cod (or other I have on sidebar) :S
Hello Dav7,
ReplyDeleteAdSense terms and conditions state that we can only display three regular ad units on any single page. On your home page, I only see the square ad in the sidebar, and on the post pages, an additional one in the post body.
It may be that Google were unable to find suitable posts for the wider banner yet, though I would imagine these may only display on post pages anyway.
You could try some experiments to find the best placement for your ads (where they will always be seen). I've now removed the AdSense ad from my sidebar as it only displayed on post pages.
Hope this helps you a little!
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ReplyDeletewell...that sucks.
ReplyDeleteliving in trinidad means a lot of stuff is restricted from view. thank you google for yet another slap in the face.
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