| Many people have asked me what forms of | | | | penalized? |
| traffic are illegal in the eyes of google adsense. | | | | Well ironically, one can buy clicks from adwords |
| Some have said that they felt they were using | | | | which also belongs to google and they will send |
| totally legitimate methods to attract visitors to | | | | traffic to your site. Having said that, if this |
| their pages only to receive the dreaded "adsense | | | | system is set up correctly it will bring targeted |
| wrist slap email". Something like "It has come to | | | | visitors to your adsense site and the ROI is quite |
| out attention that ads on your site are being | | | | justifiable. |
| clicked by visitors using non-approved | | | | One of the best ways to draw visitors is to |
| techniques…If this continues we will be | | | | focus on SEO techniques to improve your |
| forced to discontinue…etc. I think you get | | | | adsense site placement and ranking in the search |
| the message. | | | | engines. Relevant link partners are also a good |
| So what exactly are legal sources of traffic in the | | | | source of targeted traffic. Signatures in forums, |
| eyes of google adsense? | | | | emails and on blogs which have the same subject |
| Well, google adsense says that clicks must come | | | | matter as your pages. |
| from genuine internet users. So isn't someone | | | | Some people recommend safelist but I have |
| who clicks on a redirect sub-domain from bought | | | | never had any success with them. But I have had |
| traffic a genuine internet user. Not if the link is | | | | great success with solo ads as far as selling my |
| sending bulk traffic to your site from the same IP | | | | products and getting clicks. But again you have to |
| address. So most of the traffic you can purchase | | | | be sure you are getting targeted traffic for your |
| is illegal by adsense standards, but not all. Finding a | | | | dollars. |
| supplier of good traffic can be like finding a needle | | | | Testing and tracking are also vital to attracting |
| in a haystack and is probably not worth the | | | | traffic and maximizing clicks. It is crucial to know |
| effort because the chance of it being relevant is | | | | which techniques are working and which are not in |
| minimal. Anyway, traffic like this will increase your | | | | order to fine tune your adsense strategies. |
| page clicks but not the adsense ad clicks. And this | | | | So yes many forms of luring visitors to your site |
| defies the purpose! | | | | are illegal by google adsense law but more often |
| Other forms of traffic that are contrary to | | | | than not the methods are unfruitful and a waste |
| adsense regulations are paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, | | | | of time anyway. Common sense should also be a |
| autosurf, click exchange programs or any type of | | | | guiding factor in deciding which methods to use. |
| software that can automatically send traffic to | | | | Remember that you should be trying to build up a |
| your site. Google uses the words "Includes but | | | | rich content blog or site and that if you consider |
| are not limited to…" when stating the | | | | adsense as a secondary bonus it will naturally yield |
| above so it leaves it pretty open. These | | | | fruit in the end. |
| prohibitions also include but are not limited to | | | | Nigel Nix has been making money online for the |
| robots, automated clicking, impression generating | | | | last 3 years. |
| tools or third party services that generate clicks. | | | | He has many websites and is currently working |
| So what are the legal ways of attracting traffic | | | | on a new product launch. |
| to your google adsense ads without being | | | | |