Is Smart Pricing Coming to Referral Commisions?

Click Quality Check: Some Referral Commisions Being Cut by Google

[ken_b]

This sounds like some version of Smart Pricing for Referral ads.

Check the Inside AdSense [adsense.blogspot.com] blog for the full story.

For some publishers who display referrals for non-Google products, the earnings you receive for the ad may now be less than the maximum referral value displayed for that ad. This is because our system will initially place a restriction on referral earnings as we monitor click and conversion data to determine that the conversions generated are valid.

[martinibuster]

Not smart pricing?
Am I reading the AdSense blog wrong? This doesn't appear to be a smart pricing type change, it's a validation period.

...our system will initially place a restriction on referral earnings as we monitor click and conversion data to determine that the conversions generated are valid. Once this validation period ends, you'll begin earning the maximum value of the conversions as displayed in your account... advertisers will only be charged the maximum referral value once a publisher has completed the validation period.

[zett]

Reading this tread, I am just glad that I did not start to implement Referrals 2.0 -- I have yet to read something positive about it. I considered it, though, and thought that some restrictions set by advertisers are just sleazy ("$10 for each sale coming out of that session", i.e. a customer who bookmarks a page and returns is a FREE customer).

[Green_Grass]

Martini

Why pay anything (part payment of few cents) BEFORE validating a conversion?

Does it not make sense to pay (full amount) AFTER validation.

This way there are no problem or issues...

[mobilemaverick]

In my email to Google. I did tell them I hoped those who pass the validation period are then paid in full for all the back conversions.

After all, they have no reason not to.

I say pay us nothing, I don't care, I'm confident I'll pass. Once I do, give me all the money I'm owed. Simple.

[mobilemaverick]

Just a quick update.

It seems yesterdays 0.01 conversions were not due to this new practice but due to a sly advertiser somehow slipping in. He is now blocked.

I received a $12 commission earlier for ringtones which is pretty swell :D

[netmeg]

I'm still not ready to jump back into the Referrals. It's too bad, because I really wanted it to work, but I still don't think it's ready yet (on either side)