HELP - what should I do?

My traffic went crazy today!

[HellaCooL]

Well I had Adsense for over a year now and nothing like this ever happened before.
Basically, today traffic on one of my websites went up 4 times and so did the clicks on my AdSense ads.
The spike is just enormous and I really don’t know what to do.
My rankings in search engines are pretty much the same but all the additional traffic comes from search engines for my keywords. How is this possible if my positions are the same?
I closely inspected my stats and all the new traffic came from search engines and all the new visitors are an actual unique visitors!?!
I use stats through my host and an additional stats from different website.
How and where is this traffic coming from? I cannot figure it out. Apparently it all came from Yahoo, but HOW? My rankings remained the same.
I have already contacted Adsense and let them know about this. I just don’t want to risk anything. I have been here long enough and I heard all the stories about accounts getting closed.
Well this has happened today, and if things don’t change tomorrow I will remove my ads.
I am just so confused. I don’t want my account closed.
CPM and click through rare are the same...but it still worries me.
Should I remove my ads immediately?

[ve3cnu]

I think you can relax and enjoy the ride.

[Jenstar]

I wouldn't worry about it if your levels are all the same, but you can drop an email to Google if you are concerned. It sounds like you just got a jump in traffic. Perhaps you are looking at results on a different datacenter in Yahoo than others. If your clicks and CTR shot up while impressions remained normal, there could be a problem. But yours sounds more like a routine traffic spike due to serp changes than anyone trying to click you out of AdSense.

[swoop]

Perhaps your site was mentioned on a mailing list (listserv), or in an article, or on some local TV news. It's happened to me. If so, the spike should quickly disappear.

You've checked and found that the visitors are all unique. Google should understand that spikes happen like this, out of your control. I would not worry.

[Palehorse]

Maybe something in an article on yahoo made reference to something you dominate? This sparks interest spikes, so does having your site mentioned on tv or the radio.

[steve40]

it could even be from some keywords you don't monitor and accept it for what it is check your logs for keywords from yahoo
steve

[blend27]

God, I wish i had this problem!

[HellaCooL]

I have checked absolutely everything, and it nothing makes sense!
I think it is competition.
I have removed the ads and will see what happens tomorrow.
I'm so mad!

[HellaCooL]

I have around 30% returning visitors each day.
Well retiring visitors remained the same like every other day (not the percentage but the numbers) and new visitors just keep coming. Its definitely a robot. Is there any way I can block this?

[diamondgrl]

Do you have full access to the logs? Does it show the useragent and IP address?

[Bentler]

In my line of business I've noticed the following phenonemon at this time of year every year for at least the last 5:

1. large numbers of people get new computers for Christmas
   
2. they hook them up (now on fast connections), try them out, looking for things they didn't look at/for before
   
3. in February, March and April, they dispose of their old computers

Maybe you're a beneficiary of this yearly cycle.

[walrus]

<Is there any way I can block this?>

Use of htaccess is the best way to block any suspicious users.
If you do a search for htaccess.
in this forum youll find lots about it.

[syber]

Don't assume that it is a robot. I had the same thing happen to me a while back and tracked it down to my site being mentioned in Newsweek. Had great traffic for three weeks.

Art

[HellaCooL]

HAHA I am such a moron!
My main keyword made it to the second place of Yahoo buzz index that day. LOL!

[Jenstar]

Now aren't you glad you didn't remove all your ads ;)

[Zola]

Uzivaj!

[Palehorse]

Now you know what it tastes like, start building quality content and usefull website so you can "rinse and repeat" ;)

Good job on getting your keyword up there, now just try to remember how you did it. ;0

[Hugene]

Now this is getting out of hand. Some people are way too paranoid about AdSense. Everyone's gotta chill out. Play the game clean, and you should be fine.

[dregs33]

Hi

I have seen a very large increase in traffic in the last two days, it looks likes a lot of sites have come out of the sandbox.

AdSense earnings have gone up!

Enjoy it, it may not last :)

dregs33