bring visitor to my site through my own newsletter

good idea?

[moonkey]

I am not quite sure what to do.

I don't want to be flagged as suspicious adsense publisher, since they will notice clicking ads by e-mail referers like mail.yahoo.com, gmail.com etc..

Have anyone of you newsletter, what's the ratio of returning visitors from your newsletter to visiting your pages and how much of them are clicking on your ads, and have you ever got warning message from google? should i contact them or not to play arround with newsletter?

Attention: of course I am not telling anything about Adsense in my newsletter, it's only related to the fresh content.

[LifeinAsia]

Huh? If you link to your site from your newsletter and have AdSense on your site, the referrer should be your site, not your newsletter.

[moonkey]

no i thought about host referer.

If someone is checking his yahoo mail, the HTTP_REFERER should be mail.yahoo.*

[opifex]

exactly asia ... doesn't make sense not to go directly to the page!

One of my local competitors has had a fair amount of success with the sign up newsletter approach and has even linked a few of my pages in the past. Limited audience, but an excellent target audience ... tourism related for a destination and mostly returning visitors looking for what's new.

[LifeinAsia]

moonkey,

The referrer to your page will be mail.yahoo.*, but the referrer to AdSense will be your domain.

[jomaxx]

AdSense can track the original referring page, via Javascript rather than by HTTP referrer, so the question is valid.

[fredw]

OK, so assuming G can track the page's referer, do they care? Would many referers looking at your page from an email be a traffic red flag?

In my experience, I don't think so. Two of my major sites are news sites, and each has a daily newsletter of the headlines that were posted that day. A good slice of my traffic comes from them. I've been with adsense for more than a year, doing this all along.