Google-certified ad networks in AdSense

AdSense publishers in North America and Europe can now allow ads from Google-certified ad networks to appear on their pages. These ads will compete with AdWords ads, and will help publishers earn the most from every ad impression by increasing competition. At the same time, publishers will have full control over which ads and ad networks can appear on their pages.

Say It Ain't So: Faking AdSense Earnings

So I'm doing one of my dailies, surfing the web looking for something interesting regarding Affiliate Marketing, and I come across something that I have been thinking about for a long time now.

How do you know that the screenshots showing earnings on the blogs and websites of various Gurus are valid?

I think this post How People Fake Their AdSense, over at TopBusinessReviews.com goes a long way into shading some light on this question.

I guess the answer, which I knew all along, is that you can't really ever know. You can't know if the values are being faked, you can't know how much money went into makeing those earnings if they are real.

Just something to think about the next time you are reading some blog and some guru starts talking about their earnings.

A Question I Have Been Wondering About.

I had been wondering about the deadline for generating referrals for Adsense now that it has been retired. Well the good people over at the Inside Adsense blog answered that and many other questions in a post titled; Answers to your referrals retirement questions

What's the deadline for generating referral conversions once the program has been retired?

In order for you to be credited for a conversion, the referred user must complete the required action by the last week of September 2008. However, please keep in mind that your referral units will no longer display after the last week of August.

Google is Retiring the AdSense Referrals Program

Google is retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network.

The new Google affiliate network will actually be a new version of DoubleClick’s Performics Affiliate Network which they acquired in March.

I'm not that disappointed by this news because try as I might I could never get the AdSense Referral program fine tuned enough to work properly.

So one of this months goals will be to remove all AdSense Referrals from my various blogs by the last week of August. Then I'll have to decide what to replace them with.

I'm not sure on how the new Google Affiliate Network will work. I do have some questions about it. I am wondering if they will allow small publishers and little blogs like mine to participate in the program. But like many of the changes that occur in Affiliate Marketing there will be a learning curve to overcome. But I consider that part of the fun of Affiliate Marketing.

One feature that does not seem to be covered will be the "Google Products" links. This blog has used those in the past, but it appears that they will no longer be available. I hope that they come later because I liked trying to make money by referring people to AdSense, AdWords advertisers and other Google Products.