StumbleUpon & Adsense not a good mix?

I just got my Adsense account banned a month ago. I didn’t know why but Google said that it’s because they detected an invalid click. I tried e-mailing Google but they said that it was indeed an invalid impression. :( Although I really doubt that I get that too much clicks.

My experience about this:

http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/2007/01/10/stumbleupon-and-adsense/

It’s really hard to second-guess Google as to what is allowed and not. I received an email warning before about invalid clicks and impressions but I’m not sure if I can attribute this to SU because I’ve been using SU for several months already before I got the mail. Thousand other SU users seem to be not reporting any warning from Google either.

I’ve never really used StumbleUpon and I’m not sure if my blog has been StumbleUponed by anyone.

Still, this issue is something to watch out for.

An old article was once submitted to Stumbleupon once, but since my blog was new back then, the traffic and ad clicks didn’t really change anything.

Stumbleupon should not be considered a nefarious auto-surfer. It is more like a search engine. I use SU regularly. I type the search term in the Stumbleupon search bar and hit enter. It takes me to a site that other SU members have submitted and voted on. It is not as specific for terms as the main search engines, but it does have some very good sites that I would probably not discover through the main search engines.

It is fairly spam resistant – when it gives me a site that is just another crap-selling page, I vote thumbs-down. And so do other people. SU values quality content, as assessed by its users, not some algorithm.

Very nice message over impression/click fraud, I like it, but main thing that i observed during all my campaigning practice is that if number of impressions are coming from only one source then google might think that the publisher is involved in click/impression fraud, if we have more than one source then I think we are not in trouble, I am using SU side by side with craigslists.org both are giving me nice impressions but I use craigslist smore than SU because I thought that there is something wrong with SU and I dont want to take the risk of my adsense account.

I just learned the value of stumbled upon and began to amaze on how stumbled upon drive traffic to my site.

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