skull and bones

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger reports that some AdSense publishers are invited to join a secret group that’s “made up of some of its most successful publishers.”

Here’s part of the email, (from ProBlogger)

Hello xxxxxxxxxx,

Congratulations on your success with the AdSense program. Given your extensive experience with AdSense, I’m happy to invite you to join AdSense’s Online Advisory Council, a select group of publishers who offer input on new AdSense products and features. Our development team relies on the Online Advisory Council to help us refine our new services and features.

[...]

If you’d like to participate please reply to this email with the following text:

“I agree. I understand that information provided to me as part of the Online Advisory Council is Google Confidential Information under the applicable Google AdSense terms and conditions.”

[...]

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable confirms that this “secret group” may be real, “[this email] reads very similar to the one I personally received from Google back in February 2006.”

Blah, who cares.