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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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!
Also here is a tracking program I use to track my visitors. http://extremetracking.com/open;sum?login=dumbn You can clearly see 99% of my hits today were from digg lol. So this has to be some form a proof.
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!)
That's their standard response email to the email you sent them. They will not take your money back. No worries
Good to know. It just goes to show what an increase in traffic can do for all new guys in terms of earnings.
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.
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