Google Adsense Referral Retiring - No More Extra Money

July 2nd, 2008 | email this

Leave your comment Posted by Life is Colourful

Published in Adsense, Affiliate Networks, Google

Google decided to retire their well coveted Google Adsense referral program forever by keeping our wallets dry :-(. From 1st August onwards, you would not get paid for referring webmasters for this program. I received a mail from them couple of days back.

Here was the part of bad news, but the good part of news is - they have launched accepting publishers for Google affiliate network. I already applied for one, let’s see how it is, once they approve my application.

I believe it was the best affiliate program for established webmasters with new bloggers or webmaster reader base. I am sure though the adsense referral program is retired, you would still be able to make money on referring clients through their Google product referral program.

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19 Responded To This Post

14397. Nigerian Entrepreneur said in July 2nd, 2008

I got an email too and I didn’t like the idea. They don’t want to pay again. Too bad.

14399. Suzanne said in July 2nd, 2008

I did get the email as well, but wasn’t sorry for it. I did not see it working that well. But that could have been just me. It’s not for nothing that I’m the ‘Online Loser’.

14435. Nicola said in July 2nd, 2008

Thanks for the heads up - definitely something to look at.

14436. David Hobson said in July 2nd, 2008

Cant see many people being to bothered about this.

14496. Net Age said in July 2nd, 2008

So why are they doing it, do they have a big enough market share, did it not work for them. What was their reason if any.

14538. kapy said in July 2nd, 2008

I was not able to earn much thru their refferal program.And even the clicks on their adsense ads pay just peanuts these days.

14539. Tara said in July 2nd, 2008

Yes, I have heard this sad story…I think it will be a big change for most blogger as this has been big money source.

14550. Nick said in July 2nd, 2008

Hmmm, I didn’t receive the email yet. Anyway, I don’t think the average “Joe Blogger” is really going to be affected by this. The only ones who really make anything of things like that are people like John Chow and Shoemoney because newbie bloggers sign up with them either because it’s the only blog they know or because they think it may get them some attention. I know that even when I was running referral links pretty heavily that I didn’t get any sign-ups.

14708. Mauritius said in July 4th, 2008

I didn’t earn much from the Google referral adsense so am not that much affected by this but i think for other serious bloggers this might affect them a lot

15167. Nick said in July 7th, 2008

I wonder if the people who already have referrals that they are earning money from are going to get to keep this income stream or if the whole thing is going away not just the new referrals portion.

15480. Norhafidz said in July 10th, 2008

I’m not an adsense enthusiast, but this news certainly narrowing the sources of income in adsense. I don’t think it’ll effect much to the website if you have enough traffic to get the click the GA ads