A few days ago I picked one referral product to display on several pages of a website. Strangely, I started seeing totally different referral products in my adsense report. Today I was working on the site and sure enough, a Russian Hotel ad appeared in place of the tech product I put there. A refresh brought back the original ad. Anyone has seen similar problems? I can put up with the channel reporting issues for now, but Referral changing on their own? BTW, since I had only one product selected, the "pick the best performing ads" option wasn't even available.
It's an issue. I am NOT fond of referrals 2.0's tendency to do this. If I pick a product that I know will perform on a particular page, Google should NOT show an entirely unrelated product. This is costing me money and the referrals they substitute on my site have made zero conversions.
Guys, if you are not already aware let me tell you the whole story. Referrals 2.0 when launched was free to use on any site. You can take A forex referral and put it on arcade site. People abused this to hell. Of course, the advertiser complained. I know someone who got 4000 leads from a referral campaign and out of which only 8 were genuine. You can imagine the kind of fraud it lead to. Advertisers complained and now google is contextually matching ads. That means if you run a myspace site, you would get ads close to your niche. Forget those days when you can put a $300 conversion ad on a arcade site. Again, on top of this referrals are now geographically targetted. If you select referrals under country-USA, it wont appear for the rest of the country. So if u access the site in UK, you would see some totally different referral but most of the times its contextual to your content. I thought people knew this but anyways i hope i cleared your doubts! Reps appreciated!
Godmore, even worse... G is now paying only $3 per referral conversion when you shoud be paid $15 or $20 or even $300. they are putting publishers on evaluation period. Until this period ends, no one know when, one could not get more than $3 per referral.