StumbleUpon is breaking the adsense TOS?

Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by tarponkeith, Jun 28, 2007.

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  1. #1
    I started "stumble exchanging" like 2 weeks ago, and it actually got a decent spike of traffic one day...

    Anyways, I just got an e-mail from google that one of my sites has been getting "invalid clicks or impressions"...

    Is it because of stumbleupon?
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  2. RobertD

    RobertD Peon

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    #2
    No it's not.
     
    RobertD, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  3. live-cms_com

    live-cms_com Notable Member

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    #3
    Trading stumbles is a bit unethical, I expect people with the attitude they they can cheat the system (stumbleupon) can also cheat the system of AdSense by invalid clicks. They might be trying to be nice by clicking your ads.

    This is just a guess and is not meant to be offensive.
     
    live-cms_com, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  4. tarponkeith

    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    Really?

    I'm not sure what else it could be... I haven't clicked any of my ads... Do they get mad if I visit my own site too often? I'm still going upgrades, should I disable the ads until I'm done troubleshooting?

    Thanks for the reply...
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  5. Tearabite

    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    #5
    i've had several 'big' stumbles with no problem.. I can think of nothing in the TOS that would indicate any problem with Stumbleupon (or Digg, etc)..
     
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  6. tarponkeith

    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    No offense taken, I understand where you're coming from... While I agree that the stumbleupon exchanges are probably abusing the system, adsense fraud would be out-right breaking the rules, and I'm definitely not willing to risk that...
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 28, 2007 IP
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    FOX LORE Notable Member

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    #7
    I have not notice any thing different from stumble. I usually get clicks from The sites that have not been stumble. GO FIGURE!
     
    FOX LORE, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  8. khushal

    khushal Well-Known Member

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    #8
    Nah but the question is Are you banned from AdSense or not?
     
    khushal, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  9. tarponkeith

    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    Me? No, I just logged into my account... I was just worried about that warning e-mail... If it wasn't stumble that did it, I'm not sure what did... My account's only recieved 3 clicks, and 2 of them were from my adsense on DP, haha...
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 28, 2007 IP
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    stOx Notable Member

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    #10
    Adsense says you aren't allowed to artificially inflate traffic. Which technically is what you are doing by exchanging stumbles. Though how google would know this i dont know.
     
    stOx, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  11. khushal

    khushal Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Now you really did say that you got an email from google, Google sends this email out only when they ban an account, how come you received an email and not banned. Secondly,2 out of 3 Clicks from DP is not that big a deal, if you are not banned and innocent , believe me you wont be banned for a single click "2-3" are just too low IMO. so dont worry.
     
    khushal, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  12. tarponkeith

    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    I still can't believe it... 3 clicks, 2 from DP, and this?

    The reason I thought it was because of StumbleUpon was the part about "auto-surf" sites...
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 28, 2007 IP
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    Zerosleep Established User

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    #13
    no ways
    I'm using stumbleupon from months now
    I get around 2500 + Visitors/day (for last 1-2 week) from Stumble Upon
    I dint get any email :confused:
     
    Zerosleep, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  14. khushal

    khushal Well-Known Member

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    #14
    i get many stumbles + clicks for my MySpace Links Directory servind AdSense for over 5 months, i never came across such an activity but yes in the whole life i got only 1 single click from DP;)

    I am not sure whats happening at your end, maybe someone in your relatives is clicking:D the same ip can be a problem most of the times.
     
    khushal, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  15. tarponkeith

    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    #15
    Eh, I live alone :(

    I'm freaking out, definitely don't want my adsense account banned... I'd like to know what the problem was... I sent an email asking about stumbleupon, haven't heard back yet...
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 28, 2007 IP
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    #16
    The email from google doesn't always mean you're banned. There are warning ones too and you can read them on this forum if you search.

    Trading clicks via stumbleupon has nothing to do with google in my opinion. You or someone has clicked on those links, the email you got is probably automated.
     
    jmafonseca, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  17. Zipp0

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    #17
    Beware. I got banned for 'invalid clicks' with no warning and no explanation. I emailed server logs to google and tried like hell to figure out where these clicks were from, or if I was 'click bombed' but never did figure it out. I went through the whole appeal process, and they just stopped responding to me. Anyway, google stole like $500 of my hard earned cash. Since losing adsense I have made basically no money with my site.

    But I did get some of it back with an old credit card and my adwords account. :D Bastards!
     
    Zipp0, Jun 29, 2007 IP
  18. Mong

    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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    #18
    Best way is to not show adsense ads to low quality traffic and stumbleupon traffic is worse than digg. ;)
     
    Mong, Jun 29, 2007 IP
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    priyakochin Banned

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    #19
    No StumpleUpon will not give any invalid clicks.
    But mind whether u did anything wrong ?
     
    priyakochin, Jun 29, 2007 IP
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    #20

    am sure they have some solution of this, and 1 good one stumble can generate 100 and if someone like it gone and gone... though i usually use "thumb down" whenever a seeing proxy as well as unnecessary sites.
     
    Pammer, Jun 29, 2007 IP
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