Adsense cost cutting in referral $$ :( :(

[chandan123]

i got a mail just now from adsense team

telling about adsense referral , Google Pack referral , Firefox ( reduction )

some what they are making cost cutting service it seems

felling unlucky :(
share your thoughts
chandan

[hans]

that's called global economic recession - starting where it was created first - in USA ...

I have removed all referrals from G adsense and any other referrals. I also have removed all CPA

I personally think CPA makes it far too easy for the advertiser - it leaves all burden of success on the publisher and zero financial burden on advertiser, hence an advertiser with poor quality products or a boring / unpleasant landing page or difficult ordering/payment procedures still makes his money at zero cost and zero responsibility to create success,

while in reality the publisher only can accept responsibility for the quality and presentation of his content and the ad placements / ad optimization as well as getting traffic - and the success of CPC ads depends on the appeal of products, efficiency and ease to use of landing pages/payment procedures and useful ness of products/services.

hence I have removed ALL CPA / referrals days ago.

if Google needs cash then they have money to advertise and since G adsense uses advertising platforms that contain stolen content - G has easy ( dirty ) money enough to pay for advertisements !

if i really LOVE a product based on my own successful and repeated use - then I refer to it for free since years or post a blog article at zero cost. I only refer products, services or sites that i know personally and have used satisfactory during the course of years.

[sambaraj]

how much money they cut ?

[chandan123]

thats in the attachment dude

[sambaraj]

Is this Applies to All referrals

[bogart]

Google has shareholders that they have to keep happy.

[chandan123]

Google has shareholders that they have to keep happy.

and publishers unhappy :D :D

[wisdomtool]

Are you sure? Adsense seemed to be raking in tons of money and Google's profit is nothing short of awesome.

[chandan123]

Are you sure? Adsense seemed to be raking in tons of money and Google's profit is nothing short of awesome.

they have restricted adsense referral

now google pack is 1$

firfox is not allowed in china

alll those things means what ? cost cutting only right ? see the following (mail ) i attached the file in first post it self but no one read it seems :D :D


Hello AdSense publisher,

We are writing to give you an important follow-up to the changes we announced
earlier this month to the referrals to AdSense program. Since announcing the
changes, we've received a number of responses about the program being dependent
on the location of the referring publisher rather than the referred user. After
carefully considering this feedback, we have decided to modify our planned
changes.

Specifically, 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 on your current AdSense
referral units.

We'd also like to let you know about upcoming changes to the referrals programs
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.

We understand that these changes may decrease revenue for some of you currently
participating in these referrals programs. While it is our goal to help
publishers earn as much as possible with the AdSense program, like any other
referrals advertiser, we are constantly evaluating our campaigns to make them effective
and sustainable.

Again, thank you for your feedback and support of the referrals program.


Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

[wisdomtool]

Strucks me as weird, are they starting to prepare for an anticipated economy downtime?

[chandan123]

Strucks me as weird, are they starting to prepare for an anticipated economy downtime?

no they are just making targetted US market it seems

like other ad programs (where us traffic will be paid rather than international ) :D :D

it is just business tricks ;)

[appu]

no they are just making targetted US market it seems

like other ad programs (where us traffic will be paid rather than international ) :D :D

it is just business tricks ;)

then this wil be bad for other international publisher outside us...:(

[PayPerPlay]

Interesting,

As a stock holder, and an adsense and adwords user, I am glad I dumped most of my shares in Google seeing how my revenues have been on a steep decline over previous year, a sure sign of things to come. With the same declines being posted all over the net on blogs about PPC, it seems obvious that the economic issues impacting the U.S. are hitting Google too.

Internet giant Google Inc.'s revenue and profits fell short of Wall Street expectations in the fourth quarter, amid slower growth in consumer clicks on its advertisements and higher fees paid to partners.

Shares in the Mountain View, Calif., company fell about 7% in after-hours trading after it reported fourth-quarter profit rose 17%, compared with 46% profit growth in the third quarter. Revenue rose 51% from a year earlier to $4.83 billion.

Investors have been anxious that a consumer slowdown could affect online advertising. Slowing growth in the number of times consumers clicked on Google's ads, which appear alongside its Web ...

Just goes to show us all, no one makes big profits forever.

Good luck to all,

[Cozmo Kramer]

That is not cool, they should come up with new ideas before cutting into our money.

[isuccess]

Only high volume sites make any decent money with adsense, small publishers can't expect to rake in the money anymore. This was changed a couple of years ago. If you're a small publisher plan on $100 a month and if you've got a popular site, maybe $500-$1,000 and that's with a lot of traffic. Anyone trying to live off adsense these days is fooling himself/herself. The trick with adsense is to have a very popular site.

[chandan123]

Only high volume sites make any decent money with adsense, small publishers can't expect to rake in the money anymore. This was changed a couple of years ago. If you're a small publisher plan on $100 a month and if you've got a popular site, maybe $500-$1,000 and that's with a lot of traffic. Anyone trying to live off adsense these days is fooling himself/herself. The trick with adsense is to have a very popular site.

ya very much true but big sites wont depend on adsense but small publishers are some what :(