Huge Flow of Concentrated Traffic to One Page

is this a bad thing?

[badtigger]

Today, it looks like I am on my way to my first 100 dollar day (about triple of "normal").

The cause: one particularly popular page on my site (which has 500+pp altogether) has been bookmarked up by a couple of the new, very popular "social bookmark" sites. All of this traffic is giving me a huge spike, and it is all going to this one page, a sort of comprehensive 'widget review' page I have. This one page normally accounts for a healthy, stable percentage anyways.

Is it a bad thing in any way (for me, advertisers,etc) that so much traffic is coming from one small group of referrers, to one page?

[hunderdown]

Is it targeted traffic, bringing in visitors who are legitimately interested in the content on that page? If so, great. If not, it might not hurt to send an email to AdSense support explaining the situation, so that you are on record as being concerned if there's a problem.

[badtigger]

Good idea, Hunterdown -- I just did that. Actually, a couple of months ago I did the same thing, and they gave me a non-automated response telling me that they reviewed the situtation and confirmed that I was entitled to the earnings. Hopefully I get another human/personal response this time.

From what I can tell, the traffic should be targeted, as these sorts of bookmark sites (like for eg. Furl, Spurl, etc.) have their links categorized fairly well.

So, in my case, my site deals with "specific-widgets", and the categories that my pages are linked to on the referrer's pages, are similarly termed.

I just wonder if there would be anyway for a publisher to ever tell, or come close to it, if the clicks we send convert? Or, at least what ballpark percentage of them do...

[wheelie34]

poor conversion is just G's way of giving us publishers less, how can anyone tell, even with a landing page, yes they may have had traffic from adwords/publishers, which one? no idea, so how can they give us smart priced ecpm on that basis.

I for one dont believe they can work it out, its just another knock on OUR heads and bigger cut for G