Referral program for AdWords live for all publishers now
Jensense reported several weeks ago that some publishers in select countries (US, Canada & UK were amongst those excluded) were able to refer new advertisers to AdWords in exchange for a commission after the advertiser spent a certain advertising value. Now AdSense has released this program to all AdSense publishers in countries and languages where AdSense for Content is currently available.
The program uses buttons and banners very similar to those used for the other referral products (AdSense & Firefox), although these images are definitely red in color. I can only hope they will come out with other colors, as these ones definitely clash with several websites I own!
It is interesting to note that the text on these AdWords images seems pretty pixelated and not quite clear as the Firefox and AdSense images are.
Compare the three 120×60 images from the three different referral products.
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Meet Ivan the optimiser — but please, no paparazzi
We caught up with Ivan Heneghan, a Dublin-based AdSense optimisation specialist, to learn how ‘optimisation’ differs from ‘optimization’.
Why did you agree to let us profile you?
A brilliant story! After you featured Mike Gutner, a UK-based publisher who I’ve worked with posted to his own blog asking why I hadn’t been featured, whether I even existed, and if I did, guessed that I was “a tall Russian man” with a check shirt and a moustache. Unfortunately, I’m sorry to say I’m quite nerdy-looking, and although I do have a moustache, I abhor check shirts.
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