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Adsense - does google display crap ads as punishment for traffic spikes?
Old 11-25-2006, 06:39 AM Adsense - does google display crap ads as punishment for traffic spikes?
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Hi,

Recently one of my sites got a huge traffic spike from StumbleUpon traffic. It only lasted for a day or two, but what I found interesting was for the next month (seriously - a month to the day) after the huge spike in traffic, my click throughs were well down below the average. One month and a day later and clicks were back up to normal levels.

There are some graphs showing what I mean more clearly on my blog post here: http://mattbloguk.blogspot.com/2006/...it-part-3.html

So I was wondering, if google detects "cheating" do they send out really boring crap and/or low paying adverts to try and protect its advertisers? Maybe every other advert is a public service one?

Anyone come across this before? Seems like too much of a coincidence to me!
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Old 11-25-2006, 06:54 AM
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I don't think it has something to do with traffic from StumbleUpon and I don't think it's a form of cheating.
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Old 11-25-2006, 08:51 AM
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So if you advertise on a busy forum, and get a lot of visits to your site, google sends crap ads to your site?
Don't think so...

It might have been something else in your case...
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Old 12-04-2006, 07:05 PM
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They could have run out of related ads to show during/after your traffic spike. Totally plausible.
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Old 12-04-2006, 08:03 PM
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We can only guess. Your best bet is to ask Google.

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