New Referral Rules (90 Day Window changed to 6 months)

Google AdSense Team just sent me a mail message (in Portuguese, otherwise I’d copy/paste it here) saying that Google “take users comments very seriously and so they decided to change the 90 days referral window to 6 months”.

They also mentioned that, as of today, we still see the 90 days message in our referral page, but the decision was taken.

 

Yea, I can still see 90 days in my adsense account.

6 months are much better than 3 months

 

Cool, thats good. Thanks for the info

 

Better wait till the text in the referrals page is changed (again)

 

yes its good
Thanks for the infromation

 

You’re right, but I don’t think somebody from AdSense team would have written what he wrote if he was not sure about the 90 days change.

 

How many of you have actually gotten money from a referal. It just seems that $100 in 90 days or even 6 months now is alot for just regular webpage browsers. I guess my question is do refferals actually turn a profit for you?

 

I had more than 30 signups to AdSense through me but only 1 referal (100$).
It's nice, you don't have anything to lose. Just put the AdSense button/banner and thats it

 

i have 7 sing-ups but buess no one's making money yet.

 

6 months is fair, but the weird thing is how google is avaible to change the time limit whenever they want. what'd happen if tomorrow they ask you for a month?

 

Exactly. It doesn’t go along with a “Don’t be evil” motto.

 

If they just increase the time limit, it goes

BTW, no referral (but only 18 clicks so far...)

 

18 licks but no refferals
lolz

Good time limit has increaased

 

Good if they change it to 6 months. But I have a question for you.

I am doing consulting for another popular text advertising type service and prepping to launch their affiliate program next week.

We have their comp plan set up to pay $25 for either an advertiser (buyer) or publisher that signs up. You get the $25 for every publisher you refer right after they sign up, regardless of whether they end up making any money.

So my question is - would you rather get $25 - sure thing for every referral or take a chance that you MAY get $100 in 3-6 month for one of them IF they end up doing something? So for instance in buildhomes case he would have made $750 instead of 100.

Just curious how you view the commission structure in comparison to Adsense before we put it in stone.

Thank!

 

I would prefer having $25 for sign up!

 

i'm glad they listen

 

I'm not sure if I would go that far...They are basically providing free money without having to actually pay anything in the first place. I'm sure it also states in the Terms that they can modify that time period any time they see fit.

Kudos for actually listening to their publishers. I thought it wasn't too bad at 90 but 180 is an added bonus.

 

Has anyone else been able to confirm this? The referrals page still says 90 days, and I haven't heard anyone else say Google has told them this.

 

It is only free if you consider your ad space free.

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I think this is a nice move by Google of course. And if a program (Google or otherwise) has terms that say they can change them at any time then that is their prerogative. No one if forcing you to use their program and accept their terms. Google isn't quite a monopoly... yet.