Any danger in Craigslist traffic and Adsense?

[cucr3]

I have a site with adsense and a lot of traffic comes from a couple of ads I post on Craigslist, so consequently much of my adsense earnings are from CL users. I post in a category related to my niche (it's not like I post everywhere just to get visitors) so the traffic is actually heavily targeted.

Does this pose any problem for me and my adsense account/earning? As long as the traffic converts does Google care?

Also, is there a way to tell how my adsense is converting for the publisher?

[paulgl]

Craigslist has never worked for me. Never.

Be that as it may, I don't believe there's anything
wrong with adsense, but you may eventually get
banned from craigslist.

My tip for all people who send visitors to their adsense
sites, either craigslist, forums, email, etc., is to not
put adsense on the index page and send visitors to
that. Mind you, I'm not advocating doing any such
thing with adsense. Just putting one site between
the visitor and adsense, that's all. Trying to lessen
any slap. You could even do a landing page and open
all links in new windows, trying hard to erase all tracks.

Keep in mind that all such nonsense is trying to avoid
annoying google. That in and of itself is not worth doing
and actually violates the spirit of adsense TOS.

Craigslist visitors are a crap shoot. I'd hate for them to
shoot crap on my websites.

As long as the traffic converts does Google care?

A big OH YEAH.

Are you not using channels, analytics, etc. from google?

Paul

[AffiliateCashPile]

1 complaint to google with some proof (which you will get eventually) and your adsense account will be ban. My 2 cents, if you like working with adsense, don't do that.

[Underground SEO]

I don't see why there would be a problem with that.

[cucr3]

@paul - I use analytics, but not channels.. not sure what it is but I definitely research it now. Thanks.

@ACP - What kind of complaint do you mean? (ps I am part of your affiliate network as well )

[styla786]

Remember that when you set up a network of adsense sites, you are running a business. It is okay to make a few cents a day in advertising on your blog. But, if you want to make real money with adsense, you have to do it in a systematic way. To do that, you need to set up achievable goals, procedures for accomplishing each step, and get the help you need in terms of outsourcing.
and it is also must that you should increas the trafic on your site by diffrent methods like forum posting,compitions etc

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by cucr3

@paul - I use analytics, but not channels.. not sure what it is but I definitely research it now. Thanks.

You can set a channel for a specific adsense ad. Send all craigslist
traffic to the page with the craigslist channel (or whatever you
choose to call it) These impressions and clicks will show up in
your overview on the old adsense interface. I hate the new one.

But the analytics would also show where the traffic came from
and you can put 2 and 2 together. I think there are also stats
that will show where the visitor came from and what ad was
clicked.

Paul