Actually, I think if your earnings happen today (this month), your spiked earnings won't be audited until next month...
If your spike is at similar levels than your traffic spike I don't see why there should be a problem. If you had the same traffic and suddenly your earnings jumped 50% then it would be likely to raise a flag
Um, no. They're not going to care if you emailed them 5,000 times about POSSIBLE invalid clicks (or any other problems), if they decide you've generated invalid clicks. Emailing Adsense helps you, the publisher, to sleep easier, but it's not going to deter Adsense from banning you one bit.
I am talking about emailing Google, that you will make heavy promotion (advertising), not invalid clicks.
I think he said his earnings jumped from $20/day to over $150/day for today alone. It'll probably jump more tomorrow as his "advertising" continues, along with the traffic, so yeah, that's gonna trip an automatic audit alright...
You're daydreaming. I tried to help 4 Adsense publishers in the last two months alone try to keep from being banned when their own Myspace sites got a major earnings boost via bulletins. They ALL emailed Adsense and told them about the spike, and they ALL still got banned, and NONE of them did anything wrong.
Except spam the hell out of Myspace users... Call it what you want, it is still spam. I wouldn't want some stranger sending me crap asking me to visit some site.
Hope so. This bulletin "advertising" is out of hand. Either Google or Myspace should do something about it.
I wonder what i was doing at age 15.. Still fooling around i supposed. If i am 15 yrs old now with the current mentality, it would be absolutely great..
I dont disagree with what you guys are saying.. But, in order to send a bulletin to someone, you have to be their 'friend'.. not a 'stranger' ..
No I am not. I am not discussing about a localized problem like you are (Myspace bulletins spam or advertising whatever). I am talking about any webmaster's increased chance of NOT beeing banned, if he did send an e-mail to Google (regarding whatever problem they might have, ranging from but not limited to invalid clicks and/or sudden revenue increases etc), with some days before the date when their account actually gets reviewed. And I DID helped 2 publishers to write those e-mails in a nice, complete and useful form. Those e-mails saved their accounts.
A friend is someone you know, not someone you gathered up with some bot or similar program to rack up your "friends" number
Myspace will bring on its on downfall if they dont sort it, otherwise it will just get too conjested for individuals to use as it was intended originally and will just become a massive broadcast / spam station......
You're still daydreaming, but I encourage you to continue believing that a little email will nullify any potential Adsense ban if it'll help you sleep better at nights.