2008/06/30 – TruXter Tech

I have used AdSense for a long while now. I have yet for one person to join the AdSense program through a referral link on my site. At least not reported. Then again, none of the affiliate programs I have ever signed to have let me know that anyone used my link. I do know that when i am looking fro a new advertiser for my site, I do check into the “hey try us” links. Can we trust DoubleClick yet?

But as the title stated, here is the email I received today:

Hello,

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program. We’re writing to let you know that 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 this site. *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 AFC ad units.

If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August. We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is retired:

* Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your ad space. * Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create and save all reports related to the referrals program on your desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign information

Why is this happening? 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. If you have any additional questions, please visit our Help Center.

Sincerely.

The Google AdSense Team

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Google Inc.
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Mountain View, CA 94043

Looks like that side money will not be coming, even if it never came anyway.

I’m pretty fed up with gas prices. I’m quite sure you are also. We watch the gas prices in hopes of relief. We look everywhere for a good idea on how to save money, or get better gas mileage. I know kind of the same thing. Okay, a lot of the same thing. Really the only that will work is for gas prices to drop down to its actual value. At the rate gas prices used to rise, we should be paying $1.89 a gallon here in Houston. But we are not.

In Houston we all received notice that the state is buying up all old cars. They are offering car lots $3000 for each car they recycle. They want everyone with an old car to bring it in and recycle it by getting a $3000 value trade on a new car. Sounds sweet right?

Not if you only have $2500 and nothing to trade in.

I do know that an ’86 Accord and a ’60-something VW Beetle get better gas mileage than the better of our current “hybrids” being sold to the public at $45 grand. I am not saying that the government has a huge conspiracy or something to hate people it doesn’t ever see. The lower class folks.

What I am saying is the government forgets simple factors because they have never been the lower class.

it’s illegal to run our own oil refineries in the USA.

Texas is not covered in oil wells. I have lived here my whole life. Never seen one before, ever.

Every time there is something in media that tells you how outrageous the gas prices are in another country, our gas price goes up 15 cents. Every time we hear that gas prices are going down, it drops one third the latest gas gouge only to go back up to the gouge prices.

If we are paying $4 a gallon we are told that we are getting relief by a 15 cent price drop. Yes on a full tank that will save me a whole 1.80, about the price that one gallon of gas should be. Isn’t that amazing? I got a whole gallon. Didn’t I?

Are we too civilized to react?

Day: June 30, 2008

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