Comments on: Do AdSense Referrals Work?

By: dantel

dantel — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:57:26 +0000

I don’t make any money from AdSense Referrals i am calad you do
thanks for the grat post

By: al

al — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:42:37 +0000

I Have made just a little bit of money with google, but not enough to say its great. I made alot more money with hot rocket inc.

By: Thor Schrock

Thor Schrock — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:19:10 +0000

I actually made a website specifically about firefox. This allows me to use any kind of link that I want to firefox, and the page it’s self explains some of firefox’s benefits. I’ve actually had good luck with this technique.

By: gabo_uy

gabo_uy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:57:40 +0000

Darren,

First of all thank you very much for answering my question, I was re reading it a couple of days ago and wondering if it would ever have an answer, funny. Thanks again!

Now, my two cents. Last month I created a “Pay your bill with Google: My experience with AdSense” post (in spanish) and conversions on that post are much higher than in regular pages.

Also another thing that boosted conversions was mouth to mouth as bap commented, telling friends how I’m making real money and getting checks with google has increased interests, and conversions, within my circle of friends. I’m also tutoring some of them on their first steps with adsense.

thanks again,
gabo_uy

By: bloggadget

bloggadget — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:31:39 +0000

I don’t make any money from AdSense Referrals i am calad you do
thanks for the grat post

By: basketer

basketer — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:58:51 +0000

I dont think using referrals is a good idea when you are starting your monetizing. As many have stated above, the conversion rates are actually quite low. I read a good article on Ed’s page about monetizing your blog if you are serious about making money

If you don’t have your own product (I highly recommend you create one as soon as possible), you should go about picking one, two or three top affiliate products (or services).
One of the best affiliate program directories can be found at http://www.associateprograms.com.

. Read the article on that site here

By: releaves

releaves — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:53:21 +0000

hi! I am a new blogger and not familiar to this system of google adsense referral. But I will try to use this since I badly need to monetize my site.

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By: Alex Mielus

Alex Mielus — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:27:39 +0000

One question to all people here: why I don’t have Google Pack in my AdSense Referrals setup? I just have Google AdSense, Google AdWords and Firefox plus Google Toolbar :(

This Google Pack could be the solution to increase my clicks / downloads / earning …

By: stubsy

stubsy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:43:05 +0000

I am quite surprised you referals are so low considering the amount of traffic you must be receiving.

I have searched all over your site and can’t any specific articles about how to get traffic to a new site could anyone tell me where I might find this kind of info?

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By: Alex Mielus

Alex Mielus — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:24:04 +0000

In about 3 months since I implemented referrals on our sites I had just 1 download … and that was on Picasa.

I will definitely drop referrals.

By: Mitchell Harper

Mitchell Harper — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:37:22 +0000

I thought your conversion rate would be extremely low – even though as you said, your blog is closely related and thus attracts very targeted readers.

By: Celli

Celli — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:07:04 +0000

I must say that my conversion rates were also poor on FireFox, G Pack etc. However, on Adsense referrals I get a few clicks per they and a few new users every week.

Nevertheless, for my opinion it’ll be best practice to keep fresh content, optimized site, and sticking with the basic text/images Ad links.

By: DM

DM — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:28:43 +0000

As with any affiliate-styled product referral it makes sense to use it in a highly relevant context. I make between $500-$600 monthly on a combination of Google Pack, Firefox, and Picasa (now bundled with Google Pack).

-dm

By: basketer

basketer — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:54:32 +0000

I think the problem with the referal ads is that the products being refered are already very poular and if everybody already has them, why wil they even think of cliking.
On my blog, I use this feature due to 2 main reasons:

(1)I love Google and firefox and I really dont mind making them popular for free. I guess that might be too generous and even stupid for a few.

(2)My site is actually best viewd on firefox and not IE or opera or safari.

I guess it might not be a big income source but the amount of space a text referral takes is minimal too. Atleast, it doesnt matter on my blog yet.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:22:30 +0000

I have pretty much the opposite results.

Promoting Firefox and Google Pack bring in 10% to 15% of my overall AdSense revenue on any given day, primarily from just one button on one fairly well read web site.

I’ve made virtually nothing from promoting AdWords and AdSense, even to those who might be interested and not already have an account.

By: macgoo

macgoo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:27:06 +0000

Hey all,

I am a new blogger. I only have one blog which is almost a month old now and averages about 500 hits per day (although my flickr page gets about 5000 hits per day) but I intend to put together a few more blogs over the next few months. Anyway I have been experimenting with adsense referrals with zero success and have considered removing them. None are related to my blog in anyway. I agree Kens post above on the tip-jar idea. I think that most of the ad clicks on my site are probably from people who appreciate my time and effort. I know that when I signed up for text link ads i did it thru an ad on this site as my way of showing my appreciation for the site. Although before I had a site myself I know I never clicked on any ads ever.

Sorry for rambling.

Just my 2 cents.

macgoo

By: Rui Augusto

Rui Augusto — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:01:45 +0000

I only had some success refering Picassa. I have 334 conversions, but in Portugal the price is lower.
I don’t use best places for the referals. But found that a banner or a text link on my site’s gallery has some sucess.

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:55:57 +0000

Darren, have you considered that perhaps many people are using your AdSense referrals as a tip jar? Perhaps new bloggers looking for information get recommended to your site, find useful info, then sign up though you as a “thank you”? I did that when I bought an ebook recently – I made sure I clicked through your link right before the purchase, and when I signed up with Dreamhost I used WordPress.org’s affiliate link to say thank you.

I once got one AdSense sign-up over a year ago, but nothing came of it, and I dropped the link as it just chewed up valuable space. I do have a cunning plan, however, to try to get a few Google Pack signups…