I just received a sad email from Google about AdSense referrals ...
"Hello!
The purpose of this letter is to provide you with important information regarding referrals pointing to an adsense product. As part of the program optimizing the potential revenue of web publishers we are constantly experimenting with new features aimed at enhancing the profits of our partners, as well as analyze and make changes to existing products in this category. In particular, such research has been conducted for referral blocks offering Visitors to publisher sites register with AdSense. During long work with this program over the past year we concluded that other similar products are more beneficial for web publishers in your area. That is why the referrals program, pointing to adsense will be closed in the next few weeks. This change will not affect referrals advertising other products and services. ')
If your site contains referrals offering users Sign up for AdSense, read the below. information on future changes.
In early January, the opportunity will not be available in your account. creating new referral blocks pointing to adsense. You Continue to receive accruals for all existing referrals up to until the end of January or before reaching a total income of 100 dollars United States, after which this program will be completely suspended. Existing referral blocks will still be displayed on pages of your site.
We recommend deleting all referral blocks pointing to AdSense, no later than the last week of January. Referral blocks you don't delete, will continue to appear on the pages of the site, however conversions will not be counted. We propose to replace such links to adsense referrals to other products or services, or on ad units.
Thank you for promoting AdSense among your visitors. site and apologize for any inconvenience.
Respectfully,
The Google AdSense Team
Google Ireland Ltd. Gordon house Barrow street Dublin 4 Ireland
Registered in Dublin, Ireland »
From myself: Well what can I say ... It's a shame.= (