New Change on Adsense referral rules! What google has in mind?

I received a new email message from google adsense team yesterday mentioning about the new changes on their referral program. Well I believe there are hundreds of thousands of bloggers, website owner will be pretty disappointed on the new changes just as pissed as problogger is.

So what are the changes?

The current referral commission pay system works like this:

If you refer someone to adsense who makes $5 within 180 days you get a payment of $5.

If you refer someone to adsense who makes $100 within 180 days you get $250

If you refer 25 people who make $100 within a 180 day period you get a bonus payment of $2000

After January things will be changed back to the previous payment system which is:

If you refer someone to adsense who makes $100 within 180 days period you get $100.

That $5 and $2000 bonus idea is huge – while the numbers may not have been right, google surprised me by removing the incentive for publishers to refer them in this way. Meaning, if you have some publishers referred who already made $80-$90 but afraid they cant reach $100 within January you don’t get nothing at all!

Well that’s not enough! All the international publishers excluding North America, Latin America and Japan, you’ll no longer be able to participate in the referral program! This sounds so god damn sick that I don’t find any other reason but it’s the location of you as a publisher that excludes you from participating in the adsense referral system! This has absolutely nothing to do with your audience’s location, the topic and the quality of your blog or whatever other factor.

I wonder what’s the reason behind the decisions. Perhaps they need to slow down the flow of new publishers coming in just so they don’t have an oversupply. Another reason could be with so many other ad networks advertisers are going less with adsense which is causing an oversupply of publishers.

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