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title: "Google AdSense Referral Program Open to the public"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/5/google-adsense-referral-program-open-to-the-public.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/5/google-adsense-referral-program-open-to-the-public.html"
published: "2005-11-05T03:56:00"
updated: "2005-11-05T03:56:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Looks like Google AdSense just went another mile further. They now have a referral program. So if people sign up for AdSense through me, I actually get some money for it. All I can say is that so far, AdSense has…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Google AdSense Referral Program Open to the public

By Roy Osherove November 5, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 5, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

Looks like Google AdSense just went another mile further. They now have a referral program. So if people sign up for AdSense through me, I actually get some money for it. All I can say is that so far, AdSense has actually made me some money for my blogging efforts. And it seems to provide mostly good ads (such as for unit testing tools, which are pretty interesting)

That's why I've decided to take on the referral program and recommend this program for bloggers. It seems to do the job (I'm still not rich, but I get enough to buy a book or two each month) and it doesn't do these horrible popups (that was my stats counter - NedStat. Get rid of that thing fast!)

So, if you're a blogger and wanna sign up for this through me , click the button located on the top left site of my blog's page, just below the Google ads banner. It's free and relatively painless to setup. Good luck!

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Nov 10, 2005

    ### [The unbearable ease of domain names](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/10/the-unbearable-ease-of-domain-names.html)

- Nov 5, 2005

    ### [Problem creating mail enabled Contact on Exchange 2003](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/5/problem-creating-mail-enabled-contact-on-exchange-2003.html)

- Oct 30, 2005

    ### [My blog is not worthless after all](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/30/my-blog-is-not-worthless-after-all.html)

- Oct 21, 2005

    ### [More popups?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/21/more-popups.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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