Hey Guys, I am not sure if anyone else has this issue or if they'd even admit it publicly, OK without going into to much depth I have a few questions and confessions . One : I read all the time about Adsense safe traffic, what is safe traffic ? And when does it cross over to Arbitrage. Two : "To much of a traffic surge and income (from Adsense) increase is a reason for concern" is a statement that gets thrown around a lot, now even Google admits that it's natural, for instance I purchased a large proxy network then added Adsense to the index pages, now my earnings have increased by 4x over night. Three : Is this safe, Yesterday I earned $100 today I have earned $200 so far, similar stats, but I just remodelled my sites (old sites) and rebuilt the sites fromm scratch and optimized Adsense positioning - now I am earning 500% more than previous days. Four : I was thinking about buying some traffic to a Proxy from (I think it's) Proxy.org, now they can send 5000-6000 uniques per day for a week or so, people/members say that it can be good and you will more than double your initial $250 investment - but isn't that arbitrage ? is that Adsense safe traffic. Five : I have over 20 more sites to re-work and optimize, is it safe to continue optimizing and increase my earnings as a result or will Google think that I am bending rules and eventually suspend me ? A bit concerned, don't want to risk my money spent or money earnt, got any answers for the above ? Thanks, Jason
I would consider safe traffic to be non-paid traffic like from Search Engines and other website referrals. Buying traffic for a site with Adsense on it is taking a major risk IMO.
I can answer a few of the questions above two: You may want to contact Google and just let them know why your earnings have changed so you don't get your account flagged for suspicion. This can avoid an investigation, etc. three: Easy question...yes. four: Paid traffic is a direct violation of Adsense TOS so don't do this AT ALL! If you do, you are risking being banned from the publisher program five: Another easy one...yes! You can keep optimizing as much as you want. This is part of the business and is a must for any webmaster wanting to make more money such as yourself. So in summary you are doing nothing wrong aside from considering paid traffic. Don't make that mistake and you will be fine, and always give google a heads up if your account suddenly sky rockets. Better to be safe rather than sorry.
Wow, increasing your earnings by 500% huh? You HAVE to tell us how you positioned your ads and remodelled your sites man.
how we can earn that much??? how many unique visitors do you get per day ? i have 2 blog and i use my adsense in my two blogs. is that ok ?
Here's some stats : Yesterday : Today : All I have done (slowly) is updated my old sites, complete re-model and then I purchased some sites a couple weeks ago and added adsense to them, of course I have optimized adsense by blending and moving the ad's to better positions. (I hope showing these pic's is legal)
Non paid traffic ( search engines ) is non suspicious , but if u pay for traffic ...and each visitor spends less then 2 seconds....it becomes susppicious....
I've always wondered this: If you buy traffic, have it set to a landing page WITHOUT adsense - how will google know where the traffic is coming from? But then I thought of the other thing, unless it's behind closed doors, Google knows everything.
Nobody can tell you if you are safe or not. Personally I do not like walking on eggshells wondering if Google is happy with me or not. I however did have an increase in traffic and made average of $500 per day. Google shut down my account for "invalid clicks". I checked all the sources in my logs and could not find any invalid clicks.
Mmmm you see this is what p1sses me off (sorry for the french), have a look at some of the top sites or even Youtube they advertise to get traffic .... even with Adwords .... I am sure there's some or plenty of other large sites that also advertise : hence buy traffic to their sites that use adsense to monetize their websites. But in recent times I realise even the larger sites have been penalized or banned for arbitrage. ----- I am starting to get worried LoL - I never thought that this would happen to me (to earn some cash from adsense), todays just continues to climb .... ---- In brief this is what happened in several instances, my Bro. and I had several large sites that we shared, he managed and monetized his sites and I managed my sites, while he was learning I was helping him out, my bro. was using Zango/Seekmo so we grew apart (I hate it) and as we grew apart he lost interest and started gaming on the net, his sites started to suffer and as a result the hosting was more than his income - but I continued with my sites - then my Bro. starts to irritate me as we're going 50/50 (with earnings) and I am doing a lot of work while my bro's gaming takes control over him. So since his sites are in my name and I am paying for hosting etc out of my accounts I decide to pull the pin on him and his sites. So basicly I have torn down his sites and now monetized them with Adsense and re-modelled them for Adsense, so that's it in a nut shell, oh yeah and my bro. is a bit p1ssed at me LoL.
Yeah tell me about it, I have had to spend dollars on hosting etc. to keep up with traffic and bandwidth, now I I am on egg shells because I may loose all earnings and then some money that I invested in site moderations and hosting. There's just so many wrongs and acts that will result in a ban and I have no doubt that 50% of members are doing something wrong ie. Don't buy links, don't buy traffic, don't spam, no paid posts, no Adwords to Adsense site etc. Pretty much every traffic method is illegal - so how does a site get traffic ? If only we could all afford to have our websites mentioned in news, movies and pop songs.
Family and money = tricky situation I know of one guy who had a huge surge of traffic because he went on the radio and mentioned his website that used adsense ads. They shut down his account so he contacted them and explained the sudden increase. They reinstated his account and credited him for the leads. Unfortunatley these kind of stories are rare.
How does one get traffic? Mass email comes to mind. Unquestionable quality. Natural SEO is another good way. I think thats just about it hahahaha Even after my account was disabled I still got the checks for everything I had earned up until the suspension. If that helps
Yes that is it for me, with my Bro. and I have three months before my child is born, obviously this is my priority right now, make money for the family and maintain the income on a regular basis, so this is make or break - over 1000$ this month so far and walking on egg shells. Oh is that the norm' or is that a rarity ?
I can only speak for myself, but I assume it's the norm. Thousands of people would sue their asses every day for taking the earnings they made over that last month or two. Legally, I think they are required to.
It is the norm that they do not pay you for the time considered in violation (invalid clicks- and usually they will assume that this is the whole time since your last payment, or at least the prior month) as this money (supposedly) is returned to the advertisers (I've heard advertisers say they have got it credited, and others say not). Occasionally people get paid, but normally not. People have tried to sue Google, but the agreement you enter into with them when you take up Adsense is that they can ban you at any time without explaining why, and that you will not be paid, as the money is returned to the specific advertisers whose ads were "invalidly" clicked on. So, since you agree to these conditions when becoming an Adsense publisher, you don't really have a leg to stand on legally. As far as Adsense is concerned, as the clicks on your site were made fraudulently (by whoever or for whatever reason they deem) this is fraud, and it is not a legal right to be paid for fraudulent activity. In most cases, if people still do get payment after banning, it is because they were banned for "no longer fitting the program requirements" or something similar, not for fraudulent activity. Or maybe if Google is very aware that you personally did not make the clicks, but feels your site is "a danger to their advertisers" because it is attracting click attacks or other fraudulent activity.
Thanks for the info' , I will just continue what I am doing and see what happens I guess, my account has been credited (but not paid yet of course) for last months earnings and I haven't changed what I do - except by adding several more websites - if I get banned I get banned. So I am guessing last months would have already been audited ? is that right ?
Once it says Payment Issued, you are theoretically safe. During the Payment in Progress, they may be at the stage of going through and checking anything that has a red flag- or they may do that just before that. If it is just credited in your earnings for that day/month, that means nothing- although they may also not credit some clicks outright. It seems that usually they seem to check out sites and ban just before payment time. I guess that's when they carry out their basic checks into any potential issues.