Yep, the Google Adsense Blog has announced some important changes for the default adsense referrals system. So if you use this type of advertising you should change to another one because you won’t make money out of this, only if you have the patience to wait a long time. Here are the changes that will take place during the last week of January:

For every person you referred to become a publisher for Adsense you’ll get nothing, just 100$ when he makes 100$ in 100 days. The big problem is that only North America, Latin America, or Japan publishers can use this referrals system; persons from other regions will not be able to use it, instead they can use the other products listed under the ‘Referrals’.

Adsense is starting to become annoying with this type of changes. You can see more info here

First things first! How many readers did you manage to “lay hands on” this year? If you have the rss counter from feedburner activated for your blog you should go ahead and look at your statistics! If your number of readers has increased over the months with at least 10+ new fellows then you should continue writing in your niche, if not you should think about changing your topic. Another great way to know how many fan readers you have is to analyze how much direct traffic you had every month and compare the charts (use google analytics).

What did you do that you were really proud of in 2007? You managed to increase your traffic, your readers or simply you found the solution for the biggest dream of the year: how to make money online from blogging. If you have traffic you make money, if you make money you have traffic, it’s simple! Important is to increase your earnings in 2008, actually double it and in the same time provide to your readers quality content because in the end they are your “customers” and you don’t want to lose them.
If you have no results you should think about what do you really know to write well and start another blog. It’s very simple, just erase all your memories about your ex-blog and start all over again because if you continue writing and you don’t see any results, God knows what you’ll do, just don’t quit blogging!

Another great thing is to imagine yourself a year from now with your blog. Just imagine that you will be making a living from blogging and you will be a leader in your niche, an example for other bloggers. This will help your moral, you will be more confident in your own powers. You can also write on a piece of paper some objectives you want to fulfill and the next year just see what you have achieved. It’s simple!

Now I don’t want to say that I am an example of a good blogger because I am not. This year on this blog I didn’t manage to post every day or monetize it, because I had other projects. I am happy that I learned some new things, monetized some sites (not blogs) and created some free wordpress themes that brought me some back links. The thing is that I am seeing a big increase in everything I do and I will continue to do it as best as possible.

• In the first category you have Google products that you are already familiar with. From this category the best paying and with a good conversion rate is Firefox plus Google Toolbar because a lot of people that are browsing the internet use Microsoft Internet Explorer that as a lot of bugs and displays some pages wrong.
• From the Business category my favourite is Business Schools – Monster that pay up to $9.23 if the customer completes an online school form. Another good referral is Secret Shopper that pays $1.92 for a Full Registration.
• From the Computers & Electronics section, Coghead pays $4.62 for a free registration and Xbox up to 2$ for a free sing-up. There is also if you have a forum with the subject software, Spyware Terminator that pays 0.80$ for a download.
• In the Entertainment section you have RealAge Health Newsletter with some nice flash banners that I think they have a good conversion rate and of cours they pay for a signup $1.54. Also there is blogTV.com that has some realy interesting banners and pays 1.15$ for a signup.
• Now from the Finance & Insurance section you have a lot of good referrals that pay a lot of money and you know that best paying keywords are from finanse, banks etc. From this section I like, and used Eloan that pays 38.46$
  for a Sign up that gives more information on a loan.
• In the Food and drinks cat there is only Home Cooking Magazine that I like and has a great conversion rate and they pay $3.08 if they signup for a magazine. Food isn’t for free
• Oho from the Games section you have from where to chose almost all referrals pay for a singup over 1$ and they all have a high click conversion rate. First advertisers with 4 or 5 stars are the best.
• The Health section is money making I tell you. You know that on the internet some of the best paying keyword are for cancer and other diseases but the problem with this section is that they don’t pay for signups or downloads, si you should take a look through all of them
• In the Photo & Video you will see that there are a lot of advertisers that pay for singups. For me the best one is Sharpcast with 1.15$ per singup and if you have a forum or something with a free ad space ad Free Fotolog, they pay 0.30$.
• From both Recreation and Traveling sections I advice you for FREE TravelPod Travel Blogs with $1.15 for Register as a new member on TravelPod.com
• From Shopping as you all know they all require and pay if the person buys something I don’t like this section
• Telecomunication section isn’t good at all the best and easy referral is emoze with $0.38 for Free Download of Mobile Email Application

Referrals is a good way to make money online especially if you have niche websites but I advise you to search for the best advertiser that pays well and has a good conversion rate. So go and test them and leave me a comment if it works well for you. Good luck