Google Kicks Foreign Publishers

According to the Google Adsense blog Adsense referrals ie. promoting the Adsense program, will no longer be available to non-US publishers.

While this may not upset people who weren't making any money from the product it will not be welcomed by those who were.

One user on Irish Webmaster Forum commented:

$1000 - $1500 a month gone for me. Just like that.

Some of the more prominent bloggers, like Darren Rowse, are more than a little upset:

The last line of the post on the AdSense blog which announces this shows just how out of touch the team that made this decision are with international publishers.

“We appreciate your support of this referral product, and hope it won’t cause you any inconvenience.”

You hope it won’t cause inconvenience? Are you serious?

As Darren points out, the Adsense policy change ignores a site's readership / traffic completely and focuses entirely on where the publisher resides. It's basically Google racism!

ShoeMoney also posts about it in his usual style

Even those not affected by the change are upset

So you can now schedule a bit of work on your sites to remove all the links to Adsense.

Thanks Google. We really love your corporate mantra - do no evil - you bring a whole new meaning to the English language