Every year or so we release a new version of our software. The new version usually causes about 15/30 days of frantic activity where we normally get around a 1000% increase in our traffic, (no we are not Firefox !). But now that we have Google Adsense on the site we are worried that the corresponding 1000% increase will raise a few alarms bells in the Google headquarters. This has been going on since 1998, so I could always tell Google to look at their data to see that traffic always increases in spikes every year. Of course, the easy solution would be to take the ads down for a few days. But I would hate to loose out on, (good), revenue just because of normal web activity. I could also have a rough visitor count and take the ads down once we have reached a certain amount of visitors +x%. Or join another _good_ program for a month? (Any suggestions?) What do you think would be the safest bet? FFMG
If your traffic is legit, I wouldn't worry about it. Websites have huge traffic spikes all the time. -- Derek
I had a site that went from around 100 visitors a day to over 200,000 visitors a day in the space of an hour, the earnings did the same, traffic stayed high for a week and then went down to around 50,000, all was OK with Google.
Exactly. Its commonplace. A newspaper or magazine article can bring alot of traffic too. Google knows this.
The increase in traffic? I did nothing, the site got posted on some big sites. Happened while I slept
Goes to show what can be achieved if one of the big sites mentions your name. Our software for example is closely related to Microsoft, if they only mention us once on their site we do our yearly sales in less than a week. FFMG