Google are now taking sign-ups for their new referal beta program and it looks promising.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/03/...s-for-new.html

Get your name down fast!

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I nearly wet myself when I saw this this morning but after some further snooping around:

Can I use search engine marketing to promote my referrals campaign?
You may not use search engine marketing to purchase traffic for the specific and sole purpose of generating conversions, unless you have the express permission of the advertiser.


Also:

In which locations is the referrals beta test available?
For the time being, the referrals beta test is currently available only to English-speaking publishers located in the United States. We hope to open the test up to other locations and languages soon.


And finally!
How will my referral ads appear to users outside the U.S.?
Users located outside of the United States will see the ads in your referral unit that you specified when generating the ad code, just as US visitors do. However, please note that you will not receive payment for conversions that occur for users outside of the U.S. unless explicitly enabled by the advertiser.
*** Are you serious?***I mean.... are you REALLY SERIOUS????????????????????????????????????

Nice one Google.


This is absolute CRAP.

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Damn.
I got all excited about it too:

Adsense To Offer CPA

and I presume the same dumb restrictions will apply to the adwords side of it:
Google Adwords Pay Per Action (Beta)

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I'm actually outraged by those two points I posted. I am literally feeling VERY hard done by as I am sure a LOT of "International" publishers will be.

Diorex has a great post about it here:
Google CPA - Evil or Diabolical « Random Musings about making $$$ on the net.

Oh that doesnt look promising just yet, I should have dug deeper than rushing to apply.

I can understand keeping it to the U.S. only for the Beta and Google it probably wont take long to launch to other countries....unlike YPN.