Made it on the front page of digg.com

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by MediaHustler, Mar 23, 2006.

  1. #1
    Ok so last night I made it on the front page of digg after someone from my site submitted an article I wrote, it was averaging around 20-30 diggs a minute. This suddenly increased my adsense clicks and I racked in $7.32! NOTE: I Only average 2-3 bucks a day and here I got 7.32 in only 2 hours. So like any other reasonable person I emailed google and told them the situation and that it was not invalid/fraud clicks, here is what I got back.

    ----------------------------What I Wrote----------------------------------
    I just wanted to let you guys know a member of my site submitted an
    article I wrote to digg.com and made it to the front page. Suddenly
    increasing my google clicks, now I heard you guys were banning people for
    things like these. So I just wanted to let the Adsense Team know what was
    going on and they were not fraud clicks.

    Keep up the good work guys!

    Thanks,
    Doug
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    ---------------------------------Google's Response-------------------------
    Thank you for bringing this information to our attention. We have noted
    your input and will continue to monitor the situation.

    In order to protect your interests as well as those of our advertisers,
    Google monitors clicks on Google ads to prevent abuse of the Google
    AdSense program. Google's proprietary technology analyzes clicks to
    determine whether they fit a pattern of invalid use intended to
    artificially drive up an advertiser's clicks or a publisher's earnings.

    For additional questions, we suggest you visit our AdSense Support site at
    https://www.google.com/support/adsense . If you're unable to find an
    answer to your question on our site, please feel free to reply to this
    email.

    Sincerely,

    Grant
    The Google AdSense Team
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    I'm afraid they think I didn't want it because don't get me wrong the clicks were legit and by the tone of the email it sounds like they might take back my money I earned "legit". Do you think they will take back the $7.32 *NOTE: 7.32 is alot of money for me seeing as how I only average 2-3 bucks a day*

    Also this 7.32 put me at $101 so now I will be getting a google check, yay!
     
    MediaHustler, Mar 23, 2006 IP
  2. MediaHustler

    MediaHustler Well-Known Member

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  3. cpvr

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    #3
    They understand your problem - I also hit digg's frontpage, they know.
     
    cpvr, Mar 23, 2006 IP
  4. cms

    cms Peon

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    #4
    After the rush of visitors is over and back to normal, it would be nice to know how much you made from adsense in total from getting on the front page, as well as how much bandwidth was used in total (I'm sure it must have been a lot!)
     
    cms, Mar 23, 2006 IP
  5. MediaHustler

    MediaHustler Well-Known Member

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    8 dollars, 3/4th done with the rush around 1.5gb data transfered.

    It's only a 9kb size page.
     
    MediaHustler, Mar 23, 2006 IP
  6. Roman

    Roman Buffalo Tamer™

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    #6
    That's their standard response email to the email you sent them. They will not take your money back. No worries:)
     
    Roman, Mar 23, 2006 IP
  7. Fret-Less

    Fret-Less Active Member

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    #7
    Congratulations MediaHustler
     
    Fret-Less, Mar 24, 2006 IP
  8. Mong

    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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    #8
    hehe :)
    You haven't to worry because Google has all the data of referral and other statistics. :)
     
    Mong, Mar 24, 2006 IP
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    haha that's some true hustling, good job man. don't worry your money is in the bank :).
     
    brecht, Mar 24, 2006 IP
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    techlh Peon

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    I had that happen once and I made about $60 in clicks that day. Was nice.
     
    techlh, Mar 24, 2006 IP
  11. 50 CENT

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    LOL Enjoy it while it lasts. DIGG traffic drops off very quickly.
     
    50 CENT, Mar 24, 2006 IP
  12. MediaHustler

    MediaHustler Well-Known Member

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    It already has :'(
     
    MediaHustler, Mar 24, 2006 IP
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    qwestcommunications Notable Member

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    #13
    Good to know. It just goes to show what an increase in traffic can do for all new guys in terms of earnings.
     
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    qwestcommunications Notable Member

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    You say you are making $2-3 a day. What kind of traffic level is this on?
     
    qwestcommunications, Mar 24, 2006 IP
  15. MediaHustler

    MediaHustler Well-Known Member

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    100-200 Daily, i've been working hard in getting link exchanges.
     
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  16. JamesIsHere

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    Gosh thats awesome, I've been trying to write an article that they would accept and be greeted with diggs for so long, I just can't think of something Guns N' Roses related that would get clicks. I think I'd have to write an article related to music in general and then find a way to fit that into my site.
     
    JamesIsHere, Mar 25, 2006 IP
  17. PiLe3D

    PiLe3D Peon

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    Well consider yourself lucky that you earned over $7 on that day because it's well known that digg users are most commonly not clicking on google ads. I've been out on digg 2 times, and in both 2 times I didn't get much clicks from those "bastards" (;)), neither did my friend who's also a multi-websites webmaster. What's good about digg is the boosting of your article on many blogs and other kind of websites. If it's good, people talk about it on thousands of websites after that digg effect, and that's what brings real money. For example, it brought me extra $150 in only 4/5 days, and skyrocked my website on alexa ranking :)

    ok, have fun and hopefully a lot more stories plugged on digg index ;)

    regards,
    Emir
     
    PiLe3D, Mar 26, 2006 IP