Asking my students to join adsense from my website

Is Adsense referal PPC or affiliate program?

[jhonyjhony]

I run an SEO institute in a small city with good computer litracy. With SEO I even plan to teach adsense and other affiliate programs subject too.

So If I ask my students to join adsense from my reference site, may be I can earn the referal fee if the students makes it to 100$.

But my question is that is this allowed. For most of the affilaite programs asking customers to buy from our site is quite encouraged, but I dont know if google referals is affilaite program or PPC program.

Does any one has any experinence on this? or is this allowed.

I have more than 100 students who might join if I insist them to do so and most of them will surely make it to 100$.

[benevolent001]

You might be interested in reading this

google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=58788&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-en-et-asblog_2007-1-23&medium=link

[jhonyjhony]

Thanks for that URL benevolent001. But it still looks confuising in my case.

The adsense help says

you should feel free to recommend and promote a product you're displaying a referral button for, but please don't use language that implies that users should visit your referral buttons to support your site or benefit you financially.

In my case, I teach how adsense works, how to setup adsense and how to make content rich sites to get more trafic. I do this teaching offline in classes and not on my website.

So rather than my students directly going to adsense and signing up I think I should get my reward of referring them offline and in turn they click on my referal button and then join adsense.

Any more suggestions

[benevolent001]

I guess best is , just ask the Google itself

[WhiteWebServices]

What you're suggesting sounds exactly like "us[ing] language that implies that users should visit your referral buttons to support your site or benefit you financially". The fact that you're doing it off-line doesn't make it any less a violation, it just makes it harder for Google to detect.

[benevolent001]

Just to wonder , i have seen many open source software supporters and script writers that ask on website or in there scripts to use there adsense codes as refferal links

i guess those are fairly popular and Google must be knowing about it , i would be again suggesting to consult Google again before doing this

Google does have soft heart for open source people but not for us

[loganz]

that sounds a little fishy, would you really want to risk it though? chances are most people wont even make the initial $100, or they will mess up some how and get you banned along the way maybe.

atleast youre not like my girlfriends marketing teacher, who she told me was telling all his students to visit his site and click the ads a couple times per day...

[jhonyjhony]

Yes, this sounds fishy, and thats the reason I wanted to check it, if all this was worth an effort. Besides that maximum number of the students are from my own city so I might get banned.

Is there any one who has got 30-40 plus adsense referrals?

[BigDave]

I think your problem is that you are requiring them to click your referral link.

Instead, I would put up webpage for them with information about signing up for AdSense, and include your referral link. then *do not* keep track of who did and who did not click the link. Don't tell them to click it, don't ask them to let you know if they did, don't tell them that you are making referral money when they do click.