Today I received an E-Mail from the google adsense team stating that the referral programs provided by adsense will be deactivated soon.The adsense referral codes will no longer show any ads beginning the last week of August.
Google has not mentioned any specific reason for ending refferrals in their Inside Adsense Blog.
If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August.You have to take the following steps before Refferrals retiring:-
- Remove the referral code from your site
- Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop
Google is also requiring you to update your adsense account to Google one as a compulsary step
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its so sad!
Otherwise also, I was not very a big fan of Google Referral ads. They have never performed, at least for me.
@Silki – they dont perform for 90% of bloggers.. this is the reason I have never used them
Glad that google removed them
@Silki and rockstar Sid I have earned much with refferrals in my old blog
but now I dont use adsense
you can read this story on readwriteweb
Google Rebrands Performics: Launches Affiliate Network
and find why google has stop refeeral ads
@ajay provide the url plz