I noticed it was activated in my AdSense account a week ago so I replaced some CJ ads with it and I've had a few conversions but the site I'm using them on is already a niche site and a good CJ performer. I'm sticking with plain Adsense on my other sites where I get good clicks but 2.0 does look like it has potential.
I ran the referral ads for about 3 weeks. I had a few hundred clicks and only 8 referrals. The main advertiser that I had the conversions on paid $95 per signup so I was able to make a good chunk of money fast. Their product was a good fit for my site. For my last referral I got $56 instead of the $95 for a sign up. I didn't know that the advertisers can change the payout amount at will. My Google rep said they were working on a way for publishers to see when the advertisers change the payout amount. I got rid of just about all of the referral ads because I can't check everyday to see if each advertiser has changed their payout amount. I also would have liked to see what the landing page was that the visitor sees. I read somewhere that some advertisers landing page would have a number to call so that the publisher would not receive the commission. Not sure if that's true or not? I'll use the referral ads again when Google makes some changes to the program.
I Got invited a few days ago, its pretty good, especially free signup sites offering me 0.70$ per signup and mainly the adverts get 50 clicks per day = aprox 20-30 signups+, good eh?
although the new adverts which offer 0.70$ per free signup was just installed a few minutes ago, the other adverts had no conversions.
I don't think that I've been priveleged enough to get the Referrals 2.0, is it only for US people at this stage?
Hey I am not aware of this. Is this something revolutionary from Google? Is it different from AdSense / AdWords? How do I go for it??
I tried it for a few days but since I couldn't customize them, they looked really ugly on my page and the ads weren't available in very many designs at all. I think Google will wise up and make this more customizable. The money appears to be good, but I just don't like the current customization for the 2.0
No, it is not just for people from US. I think, they are inviting people from all the countries, not sure if there is any set criteria, But I beleive that they are inviting almost all of them except the new accounts.
Most annoying thing to me is that advertisers appear and disappear daily I would like to place entire category but there are lot of junk ads which would never get a hit not to mention referral. I made very little so far but considering I got zero from CJ this is huge progress for me. Good feature would be user created categories for preferred advertisers plus if they could be depending on URL.
I so far got 9 conversions out of which only two of them paid well one over 26 and other over 19, there are lot of junk ads which are actually not relevant to content unlike ads for content, referrals are not so customizable. This should have been in beta, and later after taking in every one's suggestions they should have implemented a full fledged referral program.
I've been running them for 3 days now, but all of a sudden the banners stopped showing and I can't find any sign of the program Do programs just stop with no warning?