What is the Conversiona Rate for Google AdSense Referral Signups?

[Tearabite]

I just got my first Adsense referral signup.
I'm curious what other's experience is with signups 'converting' (getting to their first $100 in 180 days)?

[webdudek]

20 signups.
0 conversions.

[Green_Grass]

Refer them to this forum so that they can learn to make atleast USD 100 in 180 days ..

;-)

Maybe a link to WW along with the adSense referral button may help.

[Hobbs]

Over 60 signups
ZERO cents

Pulled it off my site till I see some money coming from those first.

[caran1]

Got my first conversion yesterday, about 30 signups

[PinkFairy]

Gave it 3 months and not a cent in conversions. The only referral I now have active is Picassa, which is doing quite well, almost 1 in 5 convert and often it is the full $

edit: sorry, not relevant after looking at OP.

[dataguy]

50 signups over 4 months from a site which attracts knowledgable webmasters. Bottom line: $0. I've recently removed the referral code.

[drall]

Anyone know if there is some form of a delay in earnings being shown for the Picasa ones? We have a very large amount of clicks due to the nature of our site but no conversions in 4 days of testing.

[PinkFairy]

Anyone know if there is some form of a delay in earnings being shown for the Picasa ones? We have a very large amount of clicks due to the nature of our site but no conversions in 4 days of testing.

I've never had a significant delay, certainly not stretching to days. I'd like the referral buttons/text to make mention of the picassa name, as it is becoming well known.

How long before a Google Earth referral?

[wmuser]

0 referrals over here

[thedreamt]

I got conversions on Referrals. 1$ for picassa, 2 $ for google pack. Remember they have to download it in their PC before you get the conversion. There is also conversion on the clicks, but I don't know how many clicks you must have to be converted.

[shivaprem]

yes this is the problems may b people fisrt go & sign up then they realize that they should have a website for google adsense .... that one the reasn .
shiva

[Ganceann]

Yes,

People may click on an adsense referral button - read info about it, realise they need a website and therefore not qualify to ever become a conversion.

Or, they may have a website, and it doesn't get accepted into the adsense programme.

Now if they dont get accepted into adsense, there is no chance of a referral converting ... and since they must sign up directly from your referral button for you to qualify ... if they are refused initially due to not meeting website guidelines but later decided to join adsense and went to google directly ... you dont get the conversion because it didn't come directly from your referral button.

So conversions are never going to match referral clicks for numerous reasons - as outlined above + if they don't make the $100 required in the 180 days, or get banned for any reason, then yet again no conversion.

[netmeg]

I get 5 to 10 conversions on referrals per day; mostly on Picasa and Google Pack. (I don't use the AdSense referral) It picked up quite a bit when I added text to my page reviewing the various features of the two packages, and about how Picasa was so easy to use that my mother relies on it (without directing people to click on the link, of course, which would be against TOS) Only occasionally get a Firefox referral.

However, those 5 to 10 conversions are out of maybe 100 or more clicks. Not a huge CTR.

If Google wants these products distributed so much that they are willing to pay for conversions, they could at least help out a little on their end. There should be no rule against directing people to click on the link; since the software has to be downloaded AND installed (a new installation, no less) for the conversion to be complete, I'm not sure why anti-click fraud measures need by applied here. And it's only that much worse that the Google landing pages and text on the available buttons aren't terribly compelling either. The marketing effort is pretty poor, and I don't believe they make it clear why Joe Average User should want to download these products, even for free.

I believe the same is true for the AdSense Referral landing - since the people clicking on this are not necessarily specifically out there looking for AdSense, but maybe just browsing out of idle curiosity, the marketing effort may need to be slightly different.

[Ganceann]

Netmeg,

I agree on the theory for referrals.

Webmasters should be allowed to refer customers to referral buttons only ... and then it is up to google ( or in the future, the referral advertiser) to actually do their selling job and convince people that it is worth their time to use the product/service etc.

To be honest, I have never really seen what the landing pages of any of the referrals are as I have never clicked on one to look at it ... I guess I was naive in the sense it was google who were promoting the products/services and therefore the landing page would be high quality. I also expected them to have a high conversion rate as I thought the landing page would be high quality that would make people who had clicked on the referral button want to download and use the products/services.

I guess that is not the case. Come on google, in a quote from Jerry Maguire "Help me, help you"