Website traffic comes from? 1. Traffic is mostly random you read a story you follow that link to find out more. 2. You see a advert you read it and are interested, you click the link to find out more. 3. You gain most of your website traffic from social bookmarking like Digg or Face Book etc. Your Digg is obviously to do with your site content, and the people that click on the links are interested in the content. The Adsense ads are related to your content. Where is the problem? Why are Google banning people that gain a majority of there traffic in this way, it's not illegal it's related and only people that are interested will click the links. 4. You purchase ad placements on other peoples websites, the ads are related to your content and adsense ads are related to your content. Again people only follow links if they desire to find out more and have an interest. Why are google punishing people for using the above methods of marketing? After all, it's all related. If anything this is exactly the type of visitor that I would wish to click on my adsense ad if I purchased them. Is it all about control? If you have any theories please publish. An example the link below is related to the content you will find on that particular page. If you are interested you will click the link to find out more otherwise you will not bother. Is this so wrong? Google Adsense think so. Top 100 Google Search Trends of The Moment
I care about where my traffic comes from. If its from another country without much money, i doubt I will make the sales I want....
Google does this to protect the advertisers. Just like your publisher stats are taken into account in such things as smart pricing, advertiser's stats determine (in part) how much an advertiser pays per click and how frequently the ad gets shown. If you just tap into a random stream of traffic (like facebook or stumbleupon), you're artificially increasing the impressions for advertisers, but the low quality of the traffic means they won't get a good CTR for their ads, increasing their costs. As for arbritrage, I think the main reason is to prevent circle jerks of pages with nothing but ads. If you think back several years, this was how things were. Clicking on an ad (or 3/4 of the search results) sent you nowhere but parked pages or pages with nothing but ads. Google is trying to keep their top spot by making the search experience as good as possible for web surfers. This means they aren't going to look kindly to people driving traffic to poor quality pages or to people damaging their advertisers by showing their ads to untargeted traffic.
Google wants to provide users with the best search experience. Why drive users to a low quality website? Google wants your traffic to come from a reputable source. Google doesn't really have a way to track how you're bringing your users to your site from Facebook, myspace and so on. People could be and they probably are, tricking users into click through to their sites where the AdSense ads are displayed. Novice users will then see random ads and click them. Despite the fact they had no interest in it. Its a complicated topic because for those who are using legitimate marketing tactics on social networking sites and so on its just a pain. Could be because the traffic source wasn't Google so they are going to punish you . Who knows?