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If I currently get about 10-15 unique visits per day on my site, but send out an advertising campaign which boosts my visits to about 300-500 per day, would this appear suspicious to google? In other words, do they have any way of tracking my websites past performance, and any increases in traffic?
I'm worried that I will be making very little with adsense now, but when my campaign goes out, I may see a surge in traffic, and ultimately adsense revenues. I do not want it to look suspicious.
Please advise!
Thank you so much!
N.G
I get 30-40 visits a day but when something I write gets attention it goes up to 300 visits but then levels itself.
It is what a site is supposed to do.
One spike was so big I could hardly believe it and I did email G but they told me not to worry as long as it was legitimate traffic which it was.
Now I do not email them at all when there is a spike, expected or not - athough I do tend to more carefully monitor the unexpected or unexplained spikes.
I'd certainly take issue with the point that smart pricing doesn't affect profits the more clicks you get. Maybe there isn't an effect with some of the levels mentioned in this thread, but it does act to cap your profits by increasing Google's profit margin when your site starts to get a moderate income. Then you will see any sharp increase in traffic and clicks met with a decrease in overall earnings percentage.
I have also heard of a person whose account got suspended after a surge. His site dealt with Space exploration and there would be a traffic every time a launch is scheduled.
In the end, I am lucky in that my account was reinstated again following an appeal.
Thank you!
N.G
Freq---
Everytime I have a surge, I know exactly where it's coming from. Not only surge in visitors, but also a surge in bandwidth usage (either legitimate or leeching).
AdSense likes natural, varied traffic. Anything you do to boost traffic artificially can cause problems.
Again, thank you to those who have responded!
N.G
To the poster who said he had a traffic surge but didn't know why. If you're using a traffic counter on your site or better yet, subscribe to website stats, you can see why and when and from where your traffic surge is coming from. Just a thought.
I am sure, or at least hope that everyone here should be using some comprehensive stats programme, I certainly have been since the offset.
However stats programmes cannot always tell you where the spike is coming from, or why. A site could be featured in a newspaper, magazine, on the TV, radio etc. etc. which could very well not be reflected in the stats, but can cause a spike in the stats themselves.
I signed up for one of those promos which supposedly generate large amounts of traffic.
As long as the traffic is legitimate you are OK. Just be careful of sites or campaigns that promise large amounts of business. Be wary.
