Yeah you should stop worrying. Im not trying to be mean but its almost like your waiting for someone to come in here and ask you how you did it and what the sites are...
as long as you are complying with there TOS, things should be fine. I hope it is not a proxy website as they tend to grow very fast and because of non-converting clicks, google bans them. Good luck and congrats for doing so well.
Thanks Tasty, it's the same situation as me. I've been involved in SEO since 99 but have worked for other people the whole time. I've run Adsense for a while but never really focused on it until now. No i'm genuinely concerned, the revenue increase all of a sudden is a few thousand percent increase. I know how good Google is at Algo's and statistics and surely this has to raise some flags. I don't mind helping people at all, check all my posts in the SEO forum to see this. Ok i won't worry (as much) anymore, if i find i can't log in to Adsense i guess i'll move on to something else.
yes, there will be a big problem for you in the coming year. when you pay money to the tax man you have to pay a LOT of taxes. other than that, if you keep earning that much, you might end up being a premium publisher some day and YOU tell google how you want to run your site. lot of flexibility for high earning publishers. there are people who make a million a year from adsense so no worry
sweetfunny, the worst thing that will happen is that someone from Adsense will review your site. Adsense kicks out reports on stuff like this. When ever somebody skyrockets, they examine the site, where the traffic came from, conversion rates where applicable, etc. If all your traffic is organic, you don't have some super click farm, or havn't hired 100's of cheap Malaysian workers to jack your stats, you are fine. That is coming from someone who is in a position to know. Google LOVES to cut checks. Don't fool yourself. Thats how they make money! They love success. To protect the integrity of the system, they just manually review sites that Adsense kicks out as odd. Thats all. The only thing you have to worry about is how to spend that money. Good Luck!
Thanks for the confidence, they are all good content sites and Google is the one who is delivering all the traffic. It's the "We have deemed you a risk" emails i see popping up, which basically reads you have done nothing wrong but there's the door. I really hope publishers are getting their value from me and i'm converting traffic in to sales for them... Because it's a heck of a lot to be paying out if my traffic is not converting well for them. I've done my best to filter the rubbish advertisers in attempt to leave better sites showing that are likely to attract sales from traffic but the block list fills up pretty fast.
Sweetfunny, I envy your problem. I think you do have some reason to worry, although you might be greatly overexaggerating the risk. I don't know. The only advice I can give is: DIVERSIFY. But, it doesn't sound like your earnings are dependant on those sites...at least, not to the point where you would be without income if those earnings went to zero. I wish you good luck. PM me your rates...
My advice- start using other networks along with adsense I use kontera, which pays almost 1/3rd of what adsense pays and the ctr of google will drop hardly for u to notice So in case somethings goes wrong with adsense(i dont even think about-if it had to happen it will) u can fall back on something
If you had a large and sudden increase on traffic you should report it to Google saying that you made lots of SEO and traffic is from Google itself. Sure, they know it but otherwise a rep with a short temper or no patience to analyse anything can bann you anytime. And asking to be Unbanned is much difficult than just make a simple report. You should have More than just one Google AdSense and AdWords account. Sure, in its core it is against their TOS but there are TOS-friendly ways to do that. In case you have your sites interlinked, the above is even more important. Diversify your earnings on top of AdSense. You can make even more than your almost ~$1,000 a day. Try to get Direct Deposit into your account. If that is possible in your bank in Australia, much safer it is because you have not to wait the mail to arrive and for the cheque to clear. About CTR, I don't think you need to lower it. Some of my sites have an average CTR of 30%, or over, with reasonable traffic and for 2 years Google never questioned me. .
i don't see why that should be a problem. If your traffic is legit and so are your clicks then just enjoy the cash.
Wow Sweet! That's all I can say. Congrats man. You should have focused on your own sites a long, long time ago.
well first of all let me tell you its great that your income is going up There is no need to fear about it at all. I have around 10 websites launched before 5 months and now Each website is making around $50 per day which means approx $500 per day. All payments from google is on the time and i guess Google is happy since my site is more and more each day. I hope that will answer what you are looking for buddy
would you just lose the paranoia nad start enjoying your money, no cause for alarm, as long as all is legit you are soaring, congrats!!!!