Very new site, with server-crushing traffic within the first week - what's going to happen?

Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by Untitled Blogger, Feb 27, 2013.

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    Hi all,

    A friend of mine and I spent the last few months publicizing a Facebook page and gathering followers. We posted funny and / or political photos, and sold nicknacks with political sayings on them (shirts that say "don't tread on me", flags, decals, etc.) that we sourced locally. Then we decided to put up a blog reporting on current events and commenting on them, as well as writing articles talking about economics, politics, and whatever we felt like.

    Well, I had an old, disused AdSense account on my old personal blog (that I have admittedly neglected) that hasn't had a click in almost a year. I figured, "why not throw some ads on our blog? Maybe we'll help pay the listing fees!"

    It didn't go down quite like that.. Long story short, we've been live for less than a week. Yesterday we got 61,000+ unique visitors, which was double the day before, which was double the day before that. We've done absolutely nothing to generate artificial traffic, no PPC, no AdWords, and no scripting funny business (I'm not clever enough for that anyway). Around 95% of our traffic originates from our Facebook group (where we publicize all of our posts), but we are quickly building back-links in forums and other blogs. We haven't even been up long enough to start ranking much in Google, but Analytics already shows people coming from search queries. We add between 8-10 articles per day, averaging between 200 and 600 words each.

    So my question is... What is AdSense going to do in response to this ungodly spike in activity? There have to be alarm bells going off all over my account.. We went from 0 to 60k per day in a WEEK, but we aren't violating any of the AdSense terms of service that I am aware of - we write our own content, we never show more than 3 ad units per page, and we NEVER click our own ads or encourage interaction with them. How do I head this off at the pass before Google up and bans us for some assumed violation? There's an awful lot of money piling up in my account and I'd rather it not all be a tease..
     
    Untitled Blogger, Feb 27, 2013 IP
  2. Himadri Subrah Saha

    Himadri Subrah Saha Active Member

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    This is always an advantage to start a Facebook page at first and then starting the main website. Well as all your traffics are from your group , it is bit alarming. You need to start building natural backlinks and i hope that Google Adsense is very smart and they will understand from where you are getting the traffic. If it is legal then they will not do anything with your account but if they get any bad intention then your account will be disabled. So, do your own work and if everything is fair , Googel will not do anything which is unexpected.
     
    Himadri Subrah Saha, Mar 15, 2013 IP