Back on my topic. My CTR has been the same for the past week. Shouldn't that just mean that it's valid traffic?
Yes Google makes mistakes .. but I would estimate they are about 0.1% SO ... if the traffic is legit, and the clicks are legit, you have nothing to worry about. If you are guilty of some wrong doing no e-mail explanation or excuse will save you.
You're missing the point, Twan. It's not your traffic that Adsense is going to consider invalid, it's how you're getting them.
I've found if you act professionally with Google, they'll treat you professionally. When people get indignant and act all high and mighty (like someone said, they threatened to call the Attorney General and the FBI on Google, HAH) that's when things get ugly. It also helps to keep in contact with someone regarding changes and fluctuates. I suppose the best example I can give is I received a CTR over 300% on one site from some freak occurance and wrote to Google to evaluate - they said the clicks were legit and let me keep them, whilst thanking me for notifying them. Having an AdSense account is a priviledge bestowed on us by Google, they don't owe it to us. That being said, advertising to the world you're getting 3000+ clicks on a myspace site and your 15 years of age isn't going to help either...
For those people who have seen a massive spike in Adwords spending, it seems that the a new quality score algo is hitting hard. This story is about an advertiser with one keyphrase jumping in price from 12p to £2.75 in the last week and another going from 30p (which paid for an average Adwords position of 1.3) to £5.50: http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/361370/ppc-hyperinflation-reported-on-google-adwords.html It hasn't happened to me yet, but is anyone else seeing "hyperinflation"?
I've experienced the same problem yesterday, earnings spike, all out of my channels, then I've e-mailed Google and guess what? I had an answer from them in less than 12 hours! : ouch : At least I have proof of contacting them and the answer...
This is my third or forth click-bomb I've got and each time I get the same reply... I'm guessing this reply will be the same.
I can second that - they're understanding if you give them some sort of warning. Nintendo: did you get any hassle from being Dugg that time? Or did that traffic convert miserably?
Most of the time I had Yahoo ads, so it wasn't enough to set off red flags. It was crummy when it came to earnings, both Yahoo and AdSense were!!!
Damn, that's still supporting my theory that the Digg effect ultimately costs money in the end! Although you could argue that on a blog it could improve readership. Hrm...
I had 13 clicks unaccounted for , this freaked me however earnings were lower with same amount of usual links.
This reminds me.. peope who want to cheat google should e-mail them in advance and tell them they will be "advertising".
You're pretty stupid by a) Letting us all know that you are breaking Google's terms of service. You must be 18 years of age to participate in the Google AdSense program. and b) Advertising your sites, thus your publisher ID, in your signature. I wouldn't go provoking people with comments like that. Jelousy can drive people to do some pretty mean things.
Can anyone explain why google doesn't like people coming from myspace? I mean I imagine that some people legitimately get people to their site through myspace... such as bands or other artists. If they happen to have adsense up on their site, will they get banned? I'm just not seeing the immediate connection between a myspace referrer and getting a banned adsense account.
Yahoo cracked down on the Myspace traffic thing ages ago banning publishers who were nailing myspace for traffic. IMO, if you have a myspace adder getting traffic from Myspace is EASY. Hence you're getting easy traffic, from a place that is already plastered with ads. So it's needless to say that Myspace traffic doesn't convert very well, so the only person doing well from it is the publisher