Dramatically increasing page views

would this trigger a red flag?

[maxgoldie]

I just migrated a large static site with 500 pages to a dynamic one, and because some of the pages had gotten unreasonably large, I had to reasonably paginate them to make them more usable. I figure I now have 2k pages. It was getting to be an innevitability.

My question is: would a sudden marked increase in the number of page views cause any red flags with Adsense?

[guru5571]

I seriously doubt it.

[fredw]

It can't hurt to message Google about it.

I recently doubled the page views on my most popular Adsense site by combining the content of two other sites into it. I sent an email to Google to tell them of the increased impressions and they replied that it was OK and thanks for telling them.

[adamnichols45]

I seriously doubt it as well. Unless your one of the big boys I wouldnt bother to mention that to google.

[gendude]

It shouldn't be a problem - what happens if you get on Digg or Slashdot or a similar site where you end up with a ton of traffic headed your way?

Now if your clicks shot through the roof, that's a whole different matter.

[FourDegreez]

I think fluctuations, even dramatic ones, are common enough that Google isn't phased by them.

[maxgoldie]

I guess you're right, but what scared me is the notion that their algo probably doesn't like change.

[gendude]

The only potential serious problem I see is Google thinking you have duplicate content in the short term, if it sees these new pages and perhaps still has data on the original pages (or rather doesn't yet reflect the content trimmed from the original pages). Once you are properly indexed, it should not be a problem.