{"id":3271,"date":"2008-07-01T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:34:50","slug":"remove-google-adsense-referral-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/remove-google-adsense-referral-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare to Remove Google Adsense Referral Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is officially <a href=\"https:\/\/adsense.googleblog.com\/2008\/06\/were-retiring-adsense-referrals.html\" rel=\"noopener\">retiring<\/a> the <strong>Google Adsense referrals program<\/strong> which enabled webmasters to run CPA ads on their site where they earned commissions per action by web users instead of the usual pay-per-click ad units.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the announcement, Google also sent us an email informing that the AdSense Referrals program is closing down during the <strong>last week of August<\/strong>. They have advised webmasters to remove all referral codes from their sites and save all reports related to the referrals program for preserving campaign data.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative they are inviting you to join the new <a href=\"https:\/\/googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/an-update-on-google-affiliate-network.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Affiliate Network<\/a>, that enables <strong>publishers to apply for advertiser programs<\/strong> and get paid based on advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. Its part of DoubleClick Performics Affiliate operations that Google acquired in March 2008. I hope it will be integrated with Adsense soon.<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/google-adsense-referrals-earn-5-250-and-2000-bonus\/\">Adsense referrals<\/a> were particularly amazing, and I fondly remember my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/first-250-bonus-via-google-adsense-referrals\/\">first $250 referral<\/a> commission. Though they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/google-adsense-referrals-20-expanded-product-inventory\/\">were expanding<\/a> the referral program last year, recently they initiated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/google-adsense-referrals-end-for-most-international-publishers\/\">process of limiting<\/a> the referral program and reducing the payouts. Though we had limited success with Adsense referrals, there are a lot of success stories about it and optimized the right way, they could contribute significantly to huge Adsense earnings.<\/p>\n<p>So get ready to <strong>remove all referral code<\/strong> from your sites before the last week of August, and find a better way to monetize those ad spaces. Did you use referrals? How much are your earnings affected by this&#8230; share in comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is officially retiring the Google Adsense referrals program which enabled webmasters to run CPA ads on their site where&#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-3271","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\/3271","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=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}