Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'referrals'

Six months ago, we reported that Microsoft Live Search was sending spammy types of referrals. Rogerd reports on WebmasterWorld that he's not seeing the same types of referrals we reported back in January, but he's finding some even stranger ones....

Posted on July 24, 2008 9:51 AM

The other week, I accused Google of skimming their affiliates, well, I was only half wrong. Google simply was displaying broken referral reports that made it look like Google was taking money away from their referral users. A Google Groups...

Posted on January 28, 2008 7:58 AM

Just the other day we learned Google was changing their AdSense referral policy. But we have reports that many Google AdSense publishers are already seeing these referral options not appearing for them. But many of those publishers are US based,...

Posted on January 10, 2008 7:01 AM

Last night the AdSense Blog announced two changes to the referral ad program just for referring people to the AdSense product (not AdWords, not Google Checkout, etc.). Here is a sample live AdSense Referral Ad for the AdSense product: Those...

Posted on January 9, 2008 7:11 AM

Reports are coming from WebmasterWorld that Google's Referral ads via Google AdSense, are not displaying for many users. Some have said it is isolated to those who use Comcast Cable, while others also say it is a problem on other...

Posted on October 2, 2007 7:48 AM

Google released Google Referrals 2.0 to all advertisers a couple months back. We now have a detailed WebmasterWorld thread with feedback on if it actually earns publishers money. Most say, no, it does not earn them any or enough money...

Posted on September 25, 2007 7:21 AM

Earlier this week we reported Problems & Solutions for Google Referral Ads via a WebmasterWorld thread. Since then, the thread has grown to a point where AdSenseAdvisor has come up with a nice list of features and fixes they would...

Posted on August 16, 2007 7:51 AM

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the problems publishers are having with Google's referral ads. Due to those discussions, AdSenseAdvisor started a thread over at WebmasterWorld providing some feedback and solutions to some of the problems. While...

Posted on August 13, 2007 7:57 AM

Now that Google has expanded referrals 2.0 (i.e. pay per action) to more publishers, more advertisers are giving it a try. A DigitalPoint Forums thread goes through some of the troubles some advertisers are having with the program. So, they...

Posted on July 18, 2007 7:35 AM

Search Engine Watch Forums moderator, Discovery, has been noticing weird conversions sent from Google's Pay Per Action model. He asks in a Search Engine Watch Forums thread if there are AdSense publishers gaming the referrals 2.0, i.e. Pay Per Action,...

Posted on July 16, 2007 7:00 AM

Google recently launched a version 2.0 of their referrals program, also know as pay for action ads. AdSenseAdvisor posted at a WebmasterWorld thread to clarify what Google publishers can and cannot do with these ads. Yes, you can encourage people...

Posted on July 3, 2007 8:18 AM

According to posts at both DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld Forums, Google has announced that it will be awarding $5 to users who refer other to the Google Apps suite. You will be credited $5 when someone clicks the referral ad...

Posted on April 5, 2007 8:26 AM