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Google Adsense Referral Program Can Earn You More Than Google Adsense Compensation

Last week I was reading the terms and conditions of Google adsense program.While adsense is a great way to monetize your website/ blog and to earn from target traffic ,what we tend to neglect is Google Adsense Referral program.It is perhaps because many of us are not aware of the compensations google offers for the referrals. Unlike google adsense , Google encourages us to draw attention of our traffic creatively to our Google adsense referral button.

We can place Google adsense referral button or banner on our site and when a publisher signs up for Google AdSense through our referral button or banner,our account gets credited.When this publisher earns $5.00 within 180 days of the sign-up date, our adsense account is credited with $5.00. When the same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of the signup date and is eligible for payout, our account is credited with an additional $250.In other words you earn $250 when your referral to google adsense program earns his first $100.

These compensations are not lucrative enough, but here is what got me thinking. If, in any 180 day period, you refer 25 publishers with each one earning $100 and qualifying for adsense payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus. This means every time you refer 25 publishers within a period of 180 days ,you will earn $2000 when they reach their minimum payout amount of $100 and there is no limit to the number of times you could earn that.

If you have good traffic visiting your website/blog ,then this might just provide you the impetus to look closely at the referral ADS so the traffic to your site can make you more money.There are many adsense formats and colors for referral buttons to choose from on the Referrals page within your AdSense account.

Other Google Referral Products

There are several google products other than adsense that you can refer and earn from ,but the compensation for those isn’t as rewarding as the adsense referral program. And the earnings from the referrals vary depending on the product you're referring and their conversion ; Not just the signup.

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Firefox and Google Toolbar : You will receive up to $1 in your adsense account when a user downloads the Firefox plus Google Toolbar from your referral button and runs Firefox for the first time .It pays up to $1 based on the location of the user who downloads the Firefox and Google toolbar.

AdWords: Adwords is a service provided by Google for advertising on their search engine network where you can select your daily budget and the amount you would like to pay per click your ad receives.You can manage your campaigns and check the number of clicks in realtime in your Adwords account.For every Adwords Advertiser you refer, your account gets credited $5 when the advertiser spends his first $5 within 90 days of the signup date

You will be credited with another $40 when that same advertiser spends $100 within 90 days of the signup date.

If in any 180 day period you can refer 20 advertisers each of whom spend more than $100 within 90 days of their respective sign-up dates, you will be credited another $600 as bonus. This bonus is limited to 1 per calendar year.

Pack: Google pack is a collection of essential softwares.When a Windows user you've referred to ‘Pack’ downloads and installs the product, you'll receive up to US$2 in your adsense account depending on the geographic location of the user downloading the Pack.

Checkout: Google Checkout is a service offered by google for buyers to shop online.When a user signs up as a buyer and completes a transaction through Google Checkout of at least $10 within 90 days of the signup date, your account will be credited with $1.

Google Apps: Apps provides it’s user a powerful communication and collaboration tool.When a user signs up for Google Apps and there are one or more Google Apps email accounts in use for four consecutive weeks, you will be credited with $5.

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Tracking Referrals
It’s important to remember that unlike google adsense ,you are paid by the referral programs for conversion and not clicks. You can track the performance of your referrals from your adsense account..Once you login into your adsense account visit the Reports Overview page or the Advanced Reports page and select ‘referrals’ in the dropdown box. There you can check the clicks, signups, conversions and earnings separately for each referral product or service you use.

Short term and long term perspectives

While all the referral options Google adsense provides are good revenue generators ,having profited from it myself, I find the adsense referral button the most profitable. If you get enough traffic to your website or blog and use the adsense referral button creatively then the income from your adsense referral might beat your adsense income ,atleast in the short run.As your traffic and community expands , your earning graph from adsense ads will steadily climb above the income from adsense referral.

Google adsense is now allowing third party vendors to place display ads on publisher sites.