a friend of mine recently joined adsense, i told him how he can make money on adsense, by driving visitors to his site and if someone clicks on his ad, he earns too. now, he have this million email list and said he'll use it. then this afternoon, he showed me he earned $x,xxx in 11 days because on adsense ofcourse, it's real visitors since you're giving your site's url on email and then they will click on it to be able to view your site. but are we allowed to do that?
That is the last thing you would want to do if you want your account to stay intact. Read the google TOS. It is a strict no no for spam anyways.
I think nothing harm in doing so. Because you are not advertising about adsense, you are not doing any thing against the TOS of AdSense.
New AdSense Publishers Aren’t Reading TOS Google TOS: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182 You've got to be kidding me.
I meant they will click on YOUR SITE'S URL which is included in the email message, not google adsense. hmm. when you send your site's url on email to someone then that person click or visit your site, isn't that supposed to be genuine? because that user had interest on your site, like the person wants to see what it's all about. so say you're popular on your university and you have all the students email addresses, then you thought of creating a site about you and you wanted all those people to know your site - so you send them an email, they all visit almost at the same time, would google still call that fake?
I believe that Google likes mostly search engines traffic, especially traffic from Yahoo and Msn, It's because Google's traffic is their own traffic, other traffic is from concurence. Any other forms of traffic are bad (other PPC, Adbrite, etc) of course social bookmarkings traffic is ok, but emailing is agains the law, so traffic is illegal. If someone has big webportal, milions of users and he emails them with news or sth, it's ok, they've agreed to recive emails so there's no problem. ps. there's a high probability that when some gets spam emails all the time with links to websites publishing ads he'll click bomb them to punish spamer...
You can Increase your Site Traffic By Email Marketting That doesnt call as Spamming There is Lot of People Increasing there trafic By Email So your friend Wont Get Banned Coz it is Allowed
Nope.. its not allowed. Its clearly written in their TOS that you can not place adsense on a site which uses email marketing to promote the site.
what if u promote ur site by sending mails and then apply for adsense and place adds on your site. Will google know that this site was promoted by email marketing in past?
oops. i think i missed that part. and i guess my questions just got answered. hehe I think it's okay to send out emails as long as your not getting MILLIONS of page impressions per day and hundred thousand clicks per day
When your friend asks the inevitable "How are they going to find out ?" question, ask him how many emails he sent out to people he's never met before in his life again.
I'm having trouble finding that part in their TOS. How about sites that use an opt-in list and send messages about new blog posts to get returning traffic?