Here’s a prime example of the Google problem for you.
Regular Money Blogger readers will know I’ve been promoting Google Adsense quite a bit. This is partly because it’s a product I believe in which makes me good money, and partly because they’ve had a good referral program.
Until now.
This post on the official Adsense blog spells out Google’s plans to vastly reduce payouts for American and Japanese publishers. And those of us outside American and Japan are hit even harder – the referral program is being scrapped entirely.
This move strikes me as being completely dumb, and a kick in the teeth for those of us who have spent our time and money promoting Adsense.
I find the change – and the manner of the announcement – completely insulting. Darren Rowse and Jeremy Schoemaker seem to agree.
Thanks Google. Just thanks.
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2 Responses
Jack
January 13th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
1WOW…AdSense is being scrapped outside of the US and Japan? Well, I only ever made one or two dollars from it, so I stopped using it. This is Google wanting more and more of the revenue share. They see people making decent money from their blogs via AdSense and other methods, and want it stopped.
Right now Google is acting like Jekyll And Hyde – a complete trashing of a system a lot of people use, followed by, what is percieved to be a generous PageRank update.
Dom
January 13th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
2It’s the referrals that are being scrapped, not Adsense itself. But you’re quite right, Google is a law unto itself sometimes.
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