Any success story with Firefox+Google Toolbar Referral program?

There must be success stories about it.Could you share it with me(us)

 

Just search the forums, there are a few kicking around!

 

Can you ask people to click on the Firefox/Google Toolbar referral button since that's not really an ad?

 

Treat them the same as an Adsense ads, which means no incentives or asking the visitor to click on them. I know some sites that have violated this, perhaps believing the referral buttons to not be the same as Adsense ads. They're wrong, of course.

 

You can make an article about firefox and put link in the middle like it is content .... sure nothing wrong with that ?

 

Yup, it's just like writing an article about Adsense, and having your Adsense ads everywhere. As long as you're not telling them to click on your ads, it's just another site with content.

BTW to answer Mong's question, I've never had any referrals from either one. Tried them on my site for a couple of days. Threw about 500,000 impressions at them and got nothing but a dozen clicks. BAH.

 

Yep me to ... tried it and forget it no income from them ... maybe once more visitors but until then ......

 

And as I keep saying, those buttons of theirs are soooooooooooo fugly.

 

I second that, you would think that they would realize that eventually and improve them...

 

No success at all - 650.000 impressions and about 20 dowloaded FireFoxes. AdSense and AdWords - just few clicks, that' it. Don't waste your time and space with them.

 

I had one conversion for which I got 10 cents.

 

What a timely thread, I removed the referral ad a couple of months ago and was thinking of putting them back in but maybe I'll hold off.

BTW, how well does the search box do, I've pulled it as well and I'm wondering whether I should put it back

 

Thanks Jack. I have the Google Toolbar button and I've made $7 in conversions in 7 days so far.

 

It all depends on the niche but i think there has to be at least a couple of success stories around.

 

No output from Firefox/Google referal program.

 

The search box has been decent in my experience. I normally get a lot of searches and quite a few clicks on sponsored links, however, it seems to be very low-paying per click. Anyone else have the same experience?

 

I leave the search box on sites without their own search functions merely as a tool for the visitor. I don't expect, or get, very much out of it. But it is helpful to keep your visitor on your page.

 

hmm, thanks jackburton2006, I already have a quicksearch box so maybe I'll hold off on adding the Google search while I look at how it can be integrated into my design

 

Be careful about tweaking their codes, Carl. Google is insanely anal-retentive about anyone messing with their codes, even their search box codes.

 

whoops, I didn't mean changing the google code, perhaps I should have said I need to fit the template around the searchbox. If you use the google searchbox in a sidebar it can be very chunky and looks silly on template designs that use smaller columns and font sizes.