April 20th, 2006
Adsense, Adwords and Firefox Text Link Referrals
Finally, Google has launched a text link alternative for their Adsense, Adwords and Firefox referral programmes. This means that you can now start referring your visitors to Google through the use of plain hypertext links rather than through their cumbersome referral images alone.
An example:
As you can see, the links have specific wordings that you are not allowed to change, but font type and font size involved can be modified since you won’t be touching Google’s code. All you’ll have to do is modify the CSS involved by enclosing the referral code provided with a customised DIV or FONT.
While text link referrals are rather common in the industry, Google has held out from coming in with their own text link programme presumably to avoid the same fate as Chitika (whose text link referral programme was a failure).
So, this foray into text link referrals by Google is a bit of a surprise, though it’s good that people that have been using indirect (and unsupported) means of making their referral images into plain hypertext links will no longer have to go that route.
[News via JenSense]
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1 Comment
June 21st, 2006 at 1:31 pm
[…] Now, Google launching new ad models is good and all, especially for Malaysians like me who can’t officially register for Clickbank and Commission Junction. But I feel that Google’s trial implementation of CPA ads is lacking in one key department. They are based on AdSense’s current ad unit sizes. For Google’s CPA ads to dominate its opposition, it’s going to have to embrace text links, and give even greater flexibility on the text compared to what it already provides for its AdSense text link referrals. […]
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