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google are ending adsense Referrals

I did ok with them but hey good things can come to a end..

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

Google are now launching

www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.

FOR the USA only

adsense Refferals did have uk affiliates but according to the email its only for the usa

Ah well..

http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882

Ok…

I’m not to mad so far on playing with the google referrals 2.0 ”as yet”..

Two things really bugs me!

One odd theme of ads coming up for my “keyword” like domain names ?
RANT HERE: http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=2142

Two is the ORDER … Why oh why is it in imho a “bad order” …

The screen shot below show I have 1 click on a product referral but on the summary page its not showing the “clicked” product..   

I have NO idea what order google is using .. Its not using clicks, impressions or even alphabetical so whats its doing ??

Screen shot :

Today I went to update my froogle / base whatever you want to call it.. and guess what yep its down for maintenance..

 I only go in once a month or so..

SYSTEM ALERT: 6:00 PM: Our bulk upload processing system will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance for the next two days (7/16 to 7/18). During this time, bulk uploads submitted through the Google Base web interface or via FTP will not be processing. …

 

Its down for 2 days as well bugger..

Whats an affiliate ment to do now!

See here 

Another close up

Really not that happy about this.. 

Hope that google sort out the robots.txt hmmm