Google to Retire AdSense Referrals

Google has announced that it will be closing down it's AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August.

Here is a statement from a post on its Blog:

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We're retiring AdSense Referrals
We're constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers.
Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term.

For this reason, we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate your patience during this transition and here are some alternative options to consider:

Google Affiliate Network:
As part of the integration of DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. For further details, please visit: http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/.

AdSense for content ads:
If you have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace the referral ad units with standard AdSense for content ad units."

Similary, Google will soon require all publishers who use Adsense to have a Google Account. if you haven't updated yet, you will have to because its going to be requirement. read more

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