The rules of the referral program in AdSense / AdWords always looked somehow unattractive. "Bring an advertiser who spends $ 100 on AdWords for 180 days (or a site that earns $ 100 on AdSense over the same timeframe) and get your $ 100." But where are these referrals in Russia? Apparently heeding the urge of the participants, the Google AdSense program announced new rules for counting referrals . New rules are much better than old ones.
AdSense referrals
If the referral earns $ 5 for 180 days, you get $ 5
If the referral earns $ 100 for 180 days, you get $ 250 (!)
If during any 180 days you bring 25 referrals, each of whom earns $ 100 within 180 days from the date of registration, you will receive a $ 2000 bonus (!). No more than 1 bonus per year.
AdWords referrals
If the referral spends $ 5 for 90 days after the subscription (except for the activation fee for $ 5), then you are charged $ 5
If the same referral spends $ 90 for 90 days after a subscription, you get another $ 40
If during any 180 days you bring 20 referrals, each of which spends $ 100 for 90 days, you will receive a bonus of $ 600. No more than one bonus per year.
In general, good rules that are likely to lead to the fact that the entire Runet will be overwhelmed with Google's referral links. I personally barely restrained myself not to put my links on this page :).
There are no changes in the settings for your AdSense account (should be here - google.com/adsense/referrals-settings ). Let's hope that the money is already considered under the new rules.