Now if this is not a bogus message, then it is hot !

Google announced a new product to select publishers today, indicating a move away from their Adsense CPC network.

The new Google advertising program shall be called the Content Referral Network and will pay webmasters when a user completes a specific action – see definition of CPA campaigns

So this differs from Adsense where the only thing necessary for a webmaster to earn money was to have someone click … now they need to buy or fill out a signup form or whatever…

It is easy to fake a click. It is much more difficult to fake a sale.

What does this mean for web publishers?

• the average spam scraper webmaster will have a hard time to get people to by stuff with his non-credible sites
• those with professional visitors, traffic that might be in buying mood could be winners…

[via Monetize]:

What I am missing currently is ANY link to a google website with this information… be warned… might turn out this is a fake message in a few days…

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