If I'm making $0.00-$1.00 daily and all of a sudden start making $100, will I get banned from AdSense? I ask this because every time I make more than I usually make, I get some kind of a warning from AdSense. I'm committing click fraud, placements are against TOS, etc. Seems like they always find a reason to ban me when I start to make a little money.
Never have had that happen to me. How many warnings have they given you over what period of time? Seems to me like something else other than earnings is triggering their warnings.
Adsense does that these days. They want to give the customer the least payout, so they make all these false warnings.
Big differences in stats put you into blacklist for manual check which is being done by Google crew. If they see something wrong, then they ban you.
If you are receiving genuine traffic and ad clickers it shouldn't be an issue. AdSense understand that you can get peaks in your traffic once in a while.
I informed them of one such spike a while ago and they replied that it was not necessary to inform them. For all these people getting warnings, I suspect there is more going on than a simple traffic change.
If you can back up your sudden surge in revenue and clicks with concrete evidence in terms of logs of your web server, analytics snapshot, other logging information, traffic from digg etc. then you don't need to worry about getting banned. Just have the data ready when you see a surge.
How would google know whether the spikes are fraud related? Couldn't you just call your friends who live in other states and countries and have them click on an irregular basis? Unless they were clicking like crazy, I am not sure how they would know. That said, I would not chance such behavior, and even with my irregular spikes, I haven't ever gotten a warning.
Chances are, someone could be click bombing you. You should create a few channels, and investigate. I was disabled by AdSense once, but I put in a very good case, and they reinstalled me.
If the traffic is legitimate in AdSense's terms, then no spike however big would cause any problems. I never had 1%->100% spike, but I routinely have 30%->100% spikes and when I do, the only thing that happens is the eCPM going wa-a-a-y down as AdSense always lowers the price of a click when the spike occurs, but returns the price the next day when it realizes the traffic is legit and steady and it is a traffic increase due to site popularity growth and not some one-time trick.