As most of you might have noticed, Google has recently been sending a couple or three updates concerning the google referral program. Seems that they were vibrating between decisions but, as per today’s update, have finally settled on one.

According to Google:

“….you will have the option to add a referral unit for AdSense within your account when you target any referral unit to Japan and/or any countries in North America and Latin America. To ensure payment for valid conversions, we recommend that you check the targeting settings for your current Adsense referral unit.”

Also seems like their latest update targeted the referral program for Google Pack and Firefox….

” Google Pack: Currently, you can earn up to $2 when a user downloads and runs Google Pack for the first time after being referred through your link or button. Starting the third week of February, each successful Pack referral will earn up to $1. This change will apply to all referrals for Google Pack and is independent of user location or publisher
location.

Firefox: We will also be reducing payments for Firefox referrals from China during the third week of February. This specific referral payment change will only affect installations from users in China. As with referrals to AdSense, this is independent of your location as a publisher.”

As much as we appreciate deciding to allow AdSense referrals from Japan and Latin America, but for the love of God! Google, you have to do something about this…. we as affiliates are the ones screwed up… I think this could have been made a lot better for both of us. If you notice a drop down in Adsense Publishers, then that may be due to the change you’ve made to adsense ads. We’ll wait and see…. although I think changing the ads back to clickable blocks instead of the current clickable links only, would do much better for publishers also.

(P.S. You better give me a good PageRank for this new blog in your next update! I hate ********.com as much as you do! LOL!)

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