Hello everyone I've just joined this forum and have a question. I have Google Adsense on my blog, which is the story of my travels abroad. I haven't made any money from it, and don't really expect to in the future. What I do want is for people to read my story, and have therefore joined up to directories that list blogs, counter sites etc., etc. I found a site through joining Spicypage that promised to deliver many readers, so immediately signed up. The site is "adsenseeliteteam". All I had to do was look at, say 20 other sites they display, and they would show my site to 10 people. The next day (yesterday) I was excited to see that more than usual people had viewed my site, and from countries that hadn't before - looks good on the map stats! However, I then noticed somewhere that these sites could be banned by Adsense and immediately worried that this could happen to me. I haven't used this site to give me hits since. I've just checked my Adsense account and, thankfully, nobody seems to have clicked on the ads(nothing new there then!). Should I avoid these exchange sites like The Plague, and even delete myself as a user from the one above? Cheers John
I would avoid them for two reasons. One, Google does not like traffic exchanges and two, these sites normally do not provide any traffic that is worth anything. They are doing what you are doing, just visiting sites as fast as possible so they can get traffic to their site. I would avoid those if I was you.
Google doesn't like traffic from these kind of sources. Just post to directories and on your signartures for nice traffic. My advice : Steer right
It's a judgment call, but there are two ways to go...you could temporarily move the Adsense while experimenting with traffic generation, so you don't run afoul. Definitiely do not want to risk your lifetime ability to use Adsense over something like that. Most traffic exchanges are garbage...consider your own experiences surfing the sites. Were you truly interested in the sites, or just waiting like commercials for them to go by? i wouldn't besurprised they didn't click your ads...they never do...but since it inflates your impressions, this can be seen as gaming the system. Personally, I think such exchanges are only useful if you promote products for gullible webmasters.
Hi John. Welcome to the forum, you should find a lot of useful info here. Yes ignore these types of sites.
Thanks Canary, and cheers for recommending this forum in the first place! The responses are very fast and helpful.
He He, like the response Raisin Not so much gullible as inexperienced, I hope. Enjoyed your post so much, I'm now going to check out your links........
Who knows it could've been a good affiliate. I just got a good laugh out of the two statements and thought I should point them out. Hope you enjoyed the links. They're from my first project which got me started in all this. Made a lot of mistakes with it, but learned a lot from it too. I don't know why I still keep them in my sig.