Invalid Traffic Problem in Google Adsense

Ad serving has been limited

[Marian97c]

Hello, in February 2020 I opened my google adsense account, I was accepted but from the first day I received a limitation for ads.

Almost two years later, the problem persists and for 15 days the ads are displayed on the site, then again receive a limitation.

I don't understand what the problem is, I respect all the google adsense policies, posting quality content and extremely frequently, being a dating site.

Currently I have the site in cloudflare and I took security measures through which only the country from which I get over 96% of the traffic I allowed it, for the rest I put a capcha code (google bots were excluded)

I must admit, however, that the site has been open since September 2019 and for a boost I used until August this year, redirects from certain expired domains a little older but with greater authority.

Since August we have stopped all redirects, the traffic has not decreased, I have around 150k per month, but the last warning for limiting ads came on October 13th and has the notification of

Ad serving has been limited Invalid traffic concerns

I want to restore the adsense account and I want some help from you, for obvious reasons, I don't think I can post the site link here, but if you have ever been in a situation like mine and in the end you managed to escape for this limitation, please reply to this topic.


Thank you very much!

[edited by: not2easy at 6:57 pm (utc) on Oct 28, 2021]
[edit reason] charter and usability edits [/edit]

[not2easy]

Hi Marian97c and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

Apologies for the minor edits to share the text in the image. We don't do site reviews in the public forums, we prefer to help resolve problems and leave a discussion that is helpful to others as well.

There have been others in the past few months that are having the same issues you mention. What do you see when you visit the AdSense Policy Center?

Here are a few 2021 threads that could help you spot "Invalid Traffic" problems that need attention:
3/2021: [webmasterworld.com...]
1/2021: [webmasterworld.com...]
7/2021: [webmasterworld.com...]

An older thread with helpful points:
7/2017: [webmasterworld.com...]

[tangor]

You have two major points to consider ... g and cloudflare. While they are not connected YOU are the center point between both. Check and see if cloudflare might have some impact on your site as presented to g.

I remark on this simply because a few webmasters I know have experienced oddities with g/adsense when they moved their sites from hosted to cloudflare. One took the extreme step of stepping back from cloudflare and the g problem disappeared. This is only an empirical statement, not anything tested or known to be factual.

YMMV

Good luck, and Welcome to Webmasterworld!

[Marian97c]

Hello,

Thanks a lot for the answers, I'll be back with an update, which could leave my problem.

At certain times, whatever I post on the site I distribute on Facebook and this is probably not good, I stopped doing this.

Also, in Google analytics I discovered something, I leave the image below and I would like an opinion from you, maybe some "booms" from facebook are my problem? Or is it just a coincidence?

[i.imgur.com...]

@not2easy +

I read the other posts, really nothing is known about these limitations ... Unfortunately they didn't help me, for the most part I did everything that was said there.

@tangor +

It helps me because I stop all traffic from spam bots ... Is there another alternative approved by google?

[NickMNS]

I remark on this simply because a few webmasters I know have experienced oddities with g/adsense when they moved their sites from hosted to cloudflare.

This statement makes no-sense. One doesn't move a site from hosted to Cloudflare. Cloudflare is proxy that stands between your hosting and the users. Cloudflare provides many benefits including improved speed through caching, and some protection against malicious bots. There is no evidence that Cloudflare has any negative impact on Adsense. There certainly is plenty anecdotal evidence of the type "My friend's wife's second cousin had a website...". But in my experience, such cases have more to do with something obvious like thin a crappy MFA website in which the webmaster turns to Cloudflare in the hopes of making things better instead addressing the root cause. Then when it doesn't help they attribute the failure to last external factor they changed. It's not Cloudflare.

One took the extreme step of stepping back from cloudflare

I'm not sure one can qualify "stepping back from Cloudflare" as an extreme step. Cloudflare can be switched off with a toggle button.

@Marian97c

maybe some "booms" from facebook are my problem? Or is it just a coincidence?

This is most likely your problem (I am tempted to go so far as to write "certainly your problem" but one can never be certain) and it is not a coincidence. I also noted from your screen cap that you appear to be European (Romanian?). As you will have noticed if you read the threads in the first and third link posted by not2easy, you fit the pattern, European website, with a big share of Facebook traffic. The solution appears to be disabling "First Party Cookies" in Adsense.

[Marian97c]

Thanks for the answer, yes, the site is from Romania. I disabled the "First Party Cookies" option, even though I'm not sure how this can help me.

I will not send traffic from Facebook on the site, I have already deleted all 1000+ articles posted on the facebook page. And now I'm waiting, I also discovered something, traffic from an "no set" language in google analytics.

analytics: [i.imgur.com...]
adsesne: [i.imgur.com...]

[NickMNS]

"not-set" is typically from users with strict privacy settings and this was only 4600 of 1M so less than 0.5% of your total traffic, so not really a large number.

I disabled the "First Party Cookies" option, even though I'm not sure how this can help me.

Yes, I agree in principal but others here with a similar problem to yours have reported that it resolved the issue. My guess is that these cookies cause some kind of a reporting bug, and that causes AdSense to take action. By disabling the cookies, the reporting must be done differently.

Please let us know if it helps.