This past March, we launched a referrals beta to test the feature and iron out some wrinkles. Now that we’ve finished our testing, we’re pleased to announce that referrals 2.0 will soon be available to all AdSense publishers in referrals-supported languages.

While some of you may already be familiar with referrals for Google products, this launch will greatly expand the inventory and functionality of referrals for AdSense publishers. Below we’ve highlighted a few of the key benefits of referrals 2.0:

New Formats

As you’ll recall, we recently introduced New Formats for AdSense ads. This week, we’ve added a new dimension for publishers in customizing these ad formats. You’ve long been able to customize the size and colors of your ad units; now, you can also customize the shape by selecting between square, slightly rounded, or very rounded corners.

To get started with these new ad shapes, visit the ‘AdSense Setup’ tab in your account. As with all format options like sizes and colors, different corner styles will perform better for different publishers. We recommend that you choose the corner style that best matches the look and feel of your sites.

Note: I do not condone or encourage cheating on Google AdSense or any advertiser network. This article is indeed written to show why you should NOT use clickbot. If you want to increase your earning, there are  lots of legal and easier ways.

Apparently, for some reason, it is not easy to find information about clickbots from the Internet. I need to dig a bit into Google cache to get some decent information. At the time I’m writing this, even Wikipedia does not have an entry specially for “clickbot” yet. The nearest term from Wikipedia is “Internet Bot”.

The Google Adsense Team just announced a very important Policy Clarification about images besides ads. As we know, there are many bloggers trying to add images besides ads because they believe that this will increase the CTR. For example, Adsense Beautifier is the plugin for WordPress to add images besides ads. But, now you must be careful that you may be exploit the Adsense Policy by doing so.

Still thinking to cheat AdSense? Stop that. It will never bring you anywhere. You might pull it off with smaller ads network, but definitely not with Google. Here are some detection methods they might use. At the very least, they have the resources to do so.

IP Address
If the AdSense click is originated from the same IP Address as the one used for accessing your AdSense account, your account is flagged.

Cookies
Most home users do not use static IP Address for Internet connection. In most cases just disconnect and reconnect will give you a new IP Address. But don’t forget, Google has set cookies on your computer.

Have you ever thought your current income through Google Adsense can be increased from the “Competitive Ad Filter” feature of Adsense. This is very easy to use and will help for blocking Google Ads which have low CPC like 0.01, 0.02 Per Click. And those sites having less CPC were called MFA (Made For Adsense) websites.