Google have planned to remove the adsense referral system from their network,adsense being one of the finest contextual ad network system around had a nice referral program which is going to end during the last week of August!
Anuj Srivastava – AdSense Product Marketing guy wrote officially on the adsense blog that the system is going to retire within August month and requests everyone to do the following two steps before the last week of August.
1) Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your ad space.
2) Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create and save all reports related to the referrals program on your desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign information.
Though Google has discarded the adsense referrals they have brought in a Affiliate network and stated this regarding the program
Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions.
Currently Google Affiliate Network offers :
* Industry-leading advertiser and publisher service
* Rigorous network quality standards
* Reliable conversion tracking
* Detailed reporting
* Automated payments to publishers
* Simple link and creative delivery tools
* Flexible commissions
* Access to top brands on the web
Their was a mixed response for the Adsense referral retirement plan,some people who referred others were frustrated and some were happy as those referrals didn’t help them,but the new Google Affiliate network was the main thing which made them happy (Also third party ads ).The removal of Google referrals ad button doesn’t make any difference to me because I never used those but I am looking forward for the affiliate network program.
Thanks to Arprit and Google blog
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I have no referrals for google adsense.
its pretty sad to see adsense without referrals!!
This is a pretty good affiliate program. They pay out 69%:
https://www.hdpublishinggroup.com
Sad news
Although I dont use adsense
but when I used referrals were gr8 revenue source for me