It got activated in my account today. So far I haven't really seen any offers I'm interested in running. Will have to play around with it for a bit and see what happens.
Got mine activated today as well! I think that in a few weeks, when more people are using it, you will be seeing some better offers, covering more niches.
Got mine activated yesterday and tried to test it really fast on a small site. I got my first conversion today but only paid a couple of $. As far as I can tell if a certain niche has only one advertiser they can pay peanuts. The conversion I got would pay about $20 on an affiliate network but hey I am not complaining. I expect the prices to go up as more advertisers sign on and the competition increases.
well so far I still dont see it on my account - its funny how others see it yet I dont and I started this thread
after more than a week of implementing referral 2.0 ads, I havent earned a penny, and surprisingly I do pretty well on adsense . So this weekend Im going to take out the referral 2.0 banners , they havent done anything for me
From the sounds of it it sux. I think the problem is even with a click that doesn't earn you money. Someone actually has to click on it and buy a product. They may visit a site from your site referall and see something they like then visit that site later to buy it. This = no money earned for you. It is probably better for huge sites with a lot of visitors.
I look at it like this: It might be good to get 100 $0.05 clicks, but what if 50 of those people sign up on the website? You're missing out on around $0.50 per signup. If you can afford to offset the cost of not getting paid for clicks, by the cost of the commision earned from cpa, you can profit well from this, but it's all about your niche and how targetted your ads are. In other words, if you get more than 1,000 impressions a day, you might do better with a cpa model then a cpc, because if we assume that an average site has a 1% ctr, then that's 10 clicks per 1,000 impressions. If these ads usually pay $0.05, then that is $0.50 you've earned. But if 2 of them 10 clicks signup at $0.50 per registration, then you've earned $1. It just depends if you can afford to take this risk, or whether there is an advertiser in your niche that offers more than $0.50 per lead. If there is an advertiser offering $5 per registration, it's obvious that CPA (perhaps over a week) will be a more lucrative model.
wohoo, finally its on my google account, hmm testing... on new blog let me find out if this is good....rotating with adsense and referrals 2.0 to see difference
I'm testing it on a medium traffic site at the moment, and I haven't had a single conversion - I couldn't find many good ads to run though. I'll keep an eye o it and see if any good new advertisers sign up soon.