Auto-Surf attack on adsense

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by upalc, Apr 25, 2014.

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    It seems someone has included one of my sites in auto-surf to get me banned. Luckily I was checking analytics and removed ads from the landing page immediately. I received around 400+ unique visitors from auto-surf within 40 minutes or so and after that the ad was removed. The landing page ad is still removed and the traffic is still coming. Do I need to remove all ads from my site for the time being ? I did not notice much effect in the adsense earning, but analytics have got a spike. Do I need to report Google for this 40 minutes of 400+ auto-surf traffic ?
     
    upalc, Apr 25, 2014 IP
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    Are you doing any traffic exchange networks? If so that would be a big reason.
     
    nichemarketers, Apr 30, 2014 IP
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    Autosurf will get banned from Google Adsense because you generate auto traffic, not natural :) You need focus SEO and content more than use tips and tricks :)
     
    catmmo, May 1, 2014 IP
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    It's the ugly underbelly of the internet world, competition can be nasty, can someone get you banned in AdSense, erase your online reputation or even destroy your SEO, yes yes and YES! Is this happening, probably not, not unless you are the new kid in town and stepping on the big players profits. Though I think it may not have been intentional for the OP to send junk traffic or even realized that could get them banned. The fact is you sent junk traffic, Google can tell were it comes from and how long that visitor stays. The best bet is to grow the traffic naturally and if you do send paid traffic, just make sure the source is very reputable.
     
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    I had a similar problem on a wordpress wallpapers website. I've blocked all the traffic from the country who generated the fraud clicks. If you have wordpress website use a plughin to block the ip or the range of ip-s that you think are boots. If not, block them trough .htaccess (just do a search on google "block ip trough htaccess")
     
    yanpub, May 22, 2014 IP