Hi all- well, an incredible thing happened tonight when I went through my normal routine of checking my adsense earnings. I typically have around 5,000 impressions a day to my sites and earn btween 10 to 15 dollars average. No big deal. However tonight I check and WOW I have earned $70.00. Of course I am happy to have gone from 10 to 70 and dont want to compalin about earning money. HOwever I am scared as all get out htat my account will be ban from google adsense. So I did the limited amount of researcht hat I can and here are the facts I know. My impressions have gone from an average of 5,000 to 21,000 so far today. That is a HUGE jump for me. So upond furhter looking it seems that all of the traffic is commming from one of my sites. I have owned the site for two years and typically get good traffic around 2,000 visitors a day or so. Today it has been more like 9,000 visitors. I have not done any work on the site or changed anything. However all of a sudden it has gone through the roof today. It seems that the traffic is mostly comming from Yahoo and for keywords that I have ranked decently well for a long time. I am not sure if my rankings have improved drastically or not becuase I don't check them that regularly anymore. I am ranking for in the top three for most of the keywords that the traffic is comming from. They are key words like Alyssa Milano tattoos or Nicole Richie Tattoos etc. My overall CTR and page ecpm has not really changed at all so the extra earning are just comming due to the traffic. Could it be that some Yahoo god has bestowed favor on me or is there something wrong going on here? IS a competitor trying to bring me down with fake hits or what? I don;t want to sound parnoid but it seems to good to be true.... Any ideas? Thanks Ichibanda
if ur traffic is legal n no need to scare.... google will take check on ur account...but if there's no illegal click then no problem just enjoy
Hi Letsjoy- well, that is good to hear. Guess I am always inherently suspicious of a good thing and not used to things comming the easy way. $70 probably does not sound like much for many people on the thread but to go from 10 to 70 in an evening is like striking gold. I don't think there is any illegal click activity that I can tell, at least not from me or anyone I know. Is there any way to detect illegal click activity? Should I email google just in case or just leave things as they are?
I have the same problem. Everytime something good happens instead of being happy I get concerned about a ban. I am not doing anything wrong though so I shouldn't worry, but i still do (I should probably stop reading all those "I am banned" threads that pop up a couple of times a week )
If you didn't click it then don't worry about it. 70$ a day is nothing for google. I'm sure they wont even notice/check on it.
Google is not stupid, they know when clicks are fraud or legit. If they're legit, you're fine. If they're not piss yourself now please, thank you.
Dont worry. You're probably experiencing what's known as The Search Engine Dance. Enjoy the ride. Tango anyone!
i had a similiar situation two days ago, i sent google a letter with my referring reason why i think i had a jump in adsense. they replied saying i will be compensated for all legal clicks. great!
Well that is definitely good news. I don’t think you have anything to worry about, if your traffic confirms the rise in impressions then it’s all joy.
The truth of the matter is that, Google does have a very sophiticated tracking system. If you haven't done anything stupid, which by the sounds of it you haven't, DON"T WORRY!! Enjoy the added revenues and look through your log files and see how people are getting to your sites. Make additional complimentary pages and keep going. The critical part is to keep your eyes on the logs and build more complimentary pages!
Yep, I have had days similar to that. Had no correspondence from Google either. Just the way it is. Hope the $70 happens every day for you. Nice little earner for one site. In a few months time I have a site that will be getting around 100,000+ hits per day. I am expecting good $$ from Adsense. If only all of my sites could earn that many hits. I could retire.
Hey whimpering ... how will you be generating the traffic, I'm curios as that has always been my struggle.
Whimpering warrior if you are planning to use myspace and myspace trains you will get your adsense account disabled!
If your earnings can be traced back to legitimate sources, and your clicks are valid, you are in the clear. But since you said your traffic is being referred by Yahoo, an there are referrers, everything should be fine.