Google Referal BIG QUESTION

google referal bonus

[romoneymakers]

Hy,
I have one questions about the referal 100$ bonus.
I know that adsense gives the bonus when the referal makes 100$. But what i dont know is hiden in the "...and the referal is eligible for payment..".
So if my referal makes 100$ but after that he is found cheating.. or something similar... i will still receive the 100$. Is adsense adding the 100$ automaticly or every 100$ bonus it is added manualy by adsense team?

So... what i ask is that in the moment when one of my referals reaches 100$ , i will instantly get my 100$ bonus or i have to wait for adsense to verify if he "is eligible for payment" and after that ONLY i will get my bonus?

If someone can give an answer, thanks.

[trillianjedi]

I'm guessing somewhat, but based on previous form I would think it's very likely that Google will only pay you for the good customers that you send, and not the bad.

So you're not likely to get paid until your referral has made $100 and received their first payment.

If they never receive a payment, for reasons of click fraud etc, I very much doubt you will either.

TJ

[romoneymakers]

This is what i think... but.... I read somewhere (another forum) where someone said that he received 100$ and the referal was a friend of him (who cheated and got his account suspended).

[trillianjedi]

I would imagine you'd get paid after (or at the same time) your referral has been paid their first $100+.

I think it's very unlikely after you've been paid your referral fee, if the referral gets subsequently banned, that you'd have to pay the $100 back. That said, I'm not the AdSense team, so can't be certain.

Why is it a concern? If you're likely to only be sending google poor quality referrals likely to cheat then I wouldn't do it at all - that would not bode well for your account. It's another bit of data that points at you as being "low quality".

TJ

[romoneymakers]

Thanks for answer.

Now another questions...(sorry)

I use adsense for search. Can i do the following thing?
Everytime my page it is opened i have a php script that checks if the page was refered by a google/yahoo search. If it does i redirect it trough my adsense for search publisher id.
So if someone search on google.com for "money" and he clicks on my page , when he enteres my page , i will redirect him to the search page , but using my publisher link. So if i have the luck for a visitor to click on a banner ad i make lot of cash (adsense for search ads are paid way better than for content ads).

Is this agains adsense terms? I started doing this for just 3 days .

[trillianjedi]

What do the AdSense terms say? I assume you have read them - but if not, you should do... carefully.

I don't use AS for search, so haven't paid much attention to that aspect of the TOS, but gut instinct immediately says that's a "sneaky redirect".

TJ

[celgins]

Romoneymakers... Welcome to WW.

I'm trying to figure out why you would use your Adsense publisher ID to reroute someone to a search page?

If you have a script setup to detect whether the user arrived through a Google or Yahoo click, you can use PHP code to redirect them to a search page.

Using your AS publisher ID for anything else may be against Google's TOS.

[Iguana]

So someone searches on Google, clicks through to your site based on the title/snippet shown, and is served with the same Google results they were just looking at? Annoying.

Certainly you are cloaking the page - serving different content to bots than to people. If it was me coming to your site and arriving at a Google search when I had just come off a Google search then I would report you to Adsense.