{"id":2452,"date":"2007-08-07T23:29:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/referral-ads-by-google-links-on-google-adsense-ads\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:28:37","slug":"referral-ads-by-google-links-on-google-adsense-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/referral-ads-by-google-links-on-google-adsense-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Referral Ads by Google&#8221; Links on Google Adsense Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted several strange Google Adsense ads on various websites where the Ads by Google logo (to which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/new-google-adsense-ads-google-logo-less-borders\/\">they switched recently<\/a>) was replaced by &#8220;<strong>Referral Ads by Google<\/strong>&#8220;. I quickly managed to grab some screenshots using my favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/pearl-crescent-page-saver-capture-full-webpage-screenshots\/\">screen capture tool<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/referral-adsense1.gif\" alt=\"Google Adsense Referral Link 1\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/referral-adsense2.gif\" alt=\"Google Adsense Referral Link 2\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on it redirects you to the same page where the &#8220;Ads by Google&#8221; leads you &#8211; to sign up for Google Adwords or Google Adsense or send feedback on the ads you just saw. I thought these links might lead to promoting the recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/google-adsense-referrals-20-expanded-product-inventory\/\">Google Referrals 2.0<\/a> with expanded product inventory (I still love the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/first-250-bonus-via-google-adsense-referrals\/\">$250 bonus<\/a>!).<\/p>\n<p>More <strong>strange Adsense ads<\/strong> spotted previously are favicons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/google-checkout-icons-spotted-on-google-adsense-ads\/\">checkout icons<\/a>, google logos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/google-adsense-text-ads-without-title-links\/\">no titles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/google-adsense-ads-with-titles-in-italics\/\">titles in italics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/google-adsense-ads-without-ads-by-google\/\">no ?Ads by Google?<\/a>. Check them out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction Update:<\/strong> Thanks for the comments which point out that these are actually Google referral ads and not regular Google Adsense units. Since I have not been actually using the new Google referral 2.0 ad units in? such formats, I was unaware of the resemblance. The final word is that <strong>these are not strange or testing units, but Google referral units<\/strong> (which pay on action basis), but so closely resemble the Adsense text link ad units (which pay on a per click basis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted several strange Google Adsense ads on various websites where the Ads by Google logo (to which they switched&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-google","tag-adsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}