Google Backpedals on Adsense Changes

Google's recent announcement about changes to their adsense referral program was not particularly welcomed by publishers. Quelle surprise!

The company has now changed their policy slightly ... Not as much as we would have liked, but it's a move vaguely in the right direction.

From their official blog:

The changes to referrals promoting AdSense will now depend on where your users are located, regardless of your location as a publisher. You'll earn $100 for every user you refer to AdSense who is located in North America, Latin America or Japan when they generate $100 in AdSense revenue within 180 days and they remove all payment holds. You'll no longer be paid for users you refer who are located elsewhere. These changes will go into effect the last week of January.

So if you're still getting US traffic you can still monetise it ....

Of course the rest of your traffic has now been rendered useless