Friday, May 19, 2006
Google Referral Text Links
Google has announced the roll out of Adsense Referral Text Links to all the other langauges it supports - it had only been available in US English up to this point.
Adsense Referrals are now my favourite part of Adsense, and I hope they are going to further develop it and find other partner products to include. And having the text links available is excellent news because you can easily include them in a hyperlink embedded in a sentence.
The image links were OK but for me there was always a question mark as to whether you could say to a user "click on the picture to download" because Adsense terms had always made clear you weren't able to incite a user to click on Adsense - mainly because each click was a revenue generator. You don't need to worry about that with a text link because you just embed it in a sentence like: Start your free download of google referral link.
Adsense Referrals are now my favourite part of Adsense, and I hope they are going to further develop it and find other partner products to include. And having the text links available is excellent news because you can easily include them in a hyperlink embedded in a sentence.
The image links were OK but for me there was always a question mark as to whether you could say to a user "click on the picture to download" because Adsense terms had always made clear you weren't able to incite a user to click on Adsense - mainly because each click was a revenue generator. You don't need to worry about that with a text link because you just embed it in a sentence like: Start your free download of google referral link.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Google Referral Headsup
I was setting up some Adsense Referral links and noticed this health warning which I hadn't spotted before:
Google AdSense programme policies allow you to place one referral per product, for a total of up to four referrals, on any page.So be careful: if you want to stay within Google's programme policies, choose only one referral link per product on the same page. I think the new text links are heaps better than image ads by the way.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Google Referrals Expanded
Google Referrals has been fantastic for me personally, so it's brilliant news that Google has added some new products to its referral range.
New Products
New Products
- Google Picasa - Up to $1 per download - Successful imaging and photo management software
- Google Pack - Up to $2 per download - New Google bundle of software, which includes picasa, firefox, ad-aware and Norton Antivirus Special Edition with 6 month subscription.
- Google Adwords
- Firefox with Google Toolbar
Monday, May 01, 2006
Replacing TradeDoubler
OK, so since TradeDoubler went all hypocritical, I've had to find replacements for the links which I had from them on my websites. Luckily, many of the decent merchants are already available on other networks, and where they're not, I've just had to find alternatives.
Original Merchant: La Senza
New Merchant: La Senza (Buy.At)
Original Merchant: HMV
New Merchant: Play.com (Buy.At)
Original Merchant: GAME
New Merchant: GameStation (Buy.At)
Original Merchant: FlatmateWorld
New Merchant: FlatmateWorld (Affiliate Window) , Gumtree (CJ.com) and HousePals (AffiliateWindow)
Original Merchant: Ann Summers
New Merchant: Ann Summers (NetKlix)
Original Merchant: Figleaves
New Merchant: Knickers247 and BeCheeky.com (Affiliate Window)
Original Merchant: John Lewis
New Merchant: John Lewis (Affiliate Window)
Original Merchant: Firebox
New Merchant: Firebox (Affiliate Window)
Original Merchant: La Senza
New Merchant: La Senza (Buy.At)
Original Merchant: HMV
New Merchant: Play.com (Buy.At)
Original Merchant: GAME
New Merchant: GameStation (Buy.At)
Original Merchant: FlatmateWorld
New Merchant: FlatmateWorld (Affiliate Window) , Gumtree (CJ.com) and HousePals (AffiliateWindow)
Original Merchant: Ann Summers
New Merchant: Ann Summers (NetKlix)
Original Merchant: Figleaves
New Merchant: Knickers247 and BeCheeky.com (Affiliate Window)
Original Merchant: John Lewis
New Merchant: John Lewis (Affiliate Window)
Original Merchant: Firebox
New Merchant: Firebox (Affiliate Window)
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