Hi, I am a new blogger. I started my blog on 5th november, so less then a month old. I have a question. One of my posts has been getting massive amount of traffic from stumbleupon. I didn't even know it until I saw my extreme tracker reports jumping 100-200 unique visitors every ten minutes. Now, I do have an approved google adsense account but I have not used it yet. So I was wondering if I should put the ads up right now, as my post is still in the stumble effect. It has gained about 2800 unique visitors from the past 5 hours. And the traffic that I was getting before today was never more then 20 unique visitors per day. So if I put my adsense ads on my site now, will it get suspended because of such huge change in visitors? How much will I stand to earn in the next couple of days if I put my ads on my site? I am just ecstatic right now to see the after effects of this stumble on my sites regular traffic and subscribers.
Well can't say exactly but - there is a complaint for a lot of members on DP that google don't like Digg and Stumbleupon because of unnatural traffic
You can bet if Stumble catches you cheating or using stumbling groups or services they will report you to Google AdSense and your account will most likely be disabled\banned. This is probably the main reason people are banned to begin with from the AdSense program when it comes to these sites.
You can contact Adsense Team and tell about the situation. I have heard that many webmasters contacted after their urls listed in Digg like sites. They given the urls in question to them and informations (what information; is I dont know)....
I do not think you have anything to fear if the article that has been dugg is quality content & is in keeping with the overall theme of your site. I would not expect too large a cash wind-fall from the digg traffic though: That traffic is pretty notorious for gobbling up bandwidth & doing little else for your site. Might help you snag a few backlinks though.