Invalid traffic worries

[Roygbiv12]

Hi all,

I recently signed up to Adsense but haven't as yet pasted my Adsense code to my site. My main concern is invalid traffic. I am really not savvy in a technological way but sort of stumbled on building up a site that is now reaching around 100,000 views a month. My main worry is that half of my visitors come from social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter and the other half are via forums that I have been posting my site on for a few years. I don't really receive much traffic from general searches as my audience know that when I have a new post I will post it on these mediums I have read about social media traffic often being classed as "invalid" but does this also count for forums too?

I don't want to waste my or anybody else's time by setting up Adsense if I'm only going to get banned for spamming. Any help would be appreciated.

[keyplyr]

Hello Roygbiv12 and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

What you describe is not a violation. Traffic from 3rd party sites to your pages is valid. We all get traffic from various sources.

But to control this better, create a text file, rename it ads.txt and list the sites (including your own) that you authorize to use your Adsense code and put it in your base directory. Read here: [webmasterworld.com...]

There is also a place in your Adsense account settings to list your authorized sites.