Hello guys this is my 1st post here after reading the forum for some time now. I am coming from a European country – Greece and I’ve recently started studying adsense as an innovative way of getting some money to cover my hosting and that’s it. I don’t really have the energy at this point to study 3000 pdf’s and optimize heavily, while I judge at some point I will. Now I started just 2 weeks ago with a site, where I write about a theme I know pretty well and that’s about gym training routines etc. I maintain a forum in the Greek language in the same theme and I have a crowd of about 2000 members. Now I use the url of that site to my signature and since I am the chief moderator and I have about 3800 posts over the past two years that link comes up fairly often when someone browse the threads in my forum. Since I have just submitted my site to Google and yahoo and I haven’t use any fast SEO tricks/link exchange etc, I judge that whatever traffic I get is from my forums members that enjoy reading some of my stuff in that site. Thing is that while I was aiming for maybe $20 bucks a month I now get around $10 a day! Don’t get me wrong I wont throw extra income on the street for nothing and I am welcoming it, however when I checked my logs for the website and got a feeling on my visitors, I saw a lot of visitors for an un-indexed website around 600 a day that were unique different IP’s and numerous hosts they were all but maybe 4 of Greek origin. Meaning that their ISP’s were Greek their IP’s were Greek. Now in my mind I know that the reason I get only Greek visitors is because my forum is in the Greek language and deals with Greek people, and that the ad clicking is due to the fact that they see things that we don’t have in Greece, such as certain herbal supplemental and training equipment. And since I have NOT asked implied directed anyone to click on the ads, I am sure they just see stuff they haven’t see in Greece and go to have a look and probably convert. Now my question is this: Should I be worried that Google may not like the fact the 98% of the clicks on my site is Greek and ban me? I don’t get like 3000 clicks from the same IP maybe an average 2 per IP but should I take steps to prevent that? I don’t want to get banned for nothing. Will it be safer to just research some of those products and turn into affiliate marketing? Someone advised me to put an “enter†page so people won’t jump into the content, do you think that it will help any? Thanks for your time, MP
I seriously doubt that you have anything to worry about - as long as it's legitimate traffic (i.e. not click fraud), it's fine. The worst thing that could happen is possibly Smart Pricing, if the clicks aren't converting. To set your mind at ease, you may want to contact AdSense Support and ask for their input - I've found them to be very helpful and responsive. HTH, Sam
Thanks guys but Greece haves like 11.000.000 people population while New York City haves more I was worried that if they see people clicking ads about gym equipment and health products from Greece alone will get me booted . I say again the visitors are unique IP's and a variety of hosts and not everyone is clicking but Google is trigger happy lately lol. Do you think that if I'd spread my articles on 1-2 more sites, say one for herbal supplements one for gym equipment etc? Will that be better? I anticipate the traffic will be the same. Thanks again!
It seems to me that if a site is displayed in the Greek language, it follows that most of the visitors would either be from Greece or of Greek origin. If your main concern is that all of your visitors are from Greece, splitting your site into multiple sites won't change that - they'll still all be from Greece. Unfortunately, no one here has the authority to determine if there's an issue with your site or not - the only real authority in this matter is Google. I'd suggest contacting them directly, and you'll have an answer you can work with. Sam