all clicks are validated once a month, so that's why it took a month.

and well, if you read the TOS it's obvious google doesn't want us to pop our adsense ads with ppv and other kinds of contextual traffic.

What did the landing page look like and how much were you making the previous months before using adf.ly?

Google doesnt like paid traffic going to adsense websites
they just dont

they want generic SEO traffic going there from google
then once you get that , they ban your account for different reasons,
Google loves to ban people, for adsense and adwords accts
makes them feel like bigshots

So if you redirect adfly to some competitors site then will he get banned from adsense?

Adsense hates websites which use IFRAME.
Ad.ly is a iframe type.

adsense is best for hard working blogers

Adf.ly traffic is kinda terrible. I've tried it several times could never get anything profitable. Im not surprised that google banned you though. Arbitrage is not allowed

ADF.LY is a ****.

Google don't care how much we are losing as they don't have to lose anything for me. Feeling sad. At least they could send an email before banning. However, sharing your bad experience may help others to save their adsense account.

Same case dude, Adsense also banned my account for using adf.ly url shortening service. I think they wants us to use url shortening service lunched by google.

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If you are looking to be in this for the long-term then you must really build a real business. That means actually putting in the time to develop a quality and well thought out business plan that will produce.

We have an adsense alternative, but we actually work with our publishers to help them generate real and targeted traffic.

Always the same story. Old tricks no longer work

But in the end will not last for too long, in the past I also tried adf.ly without any success, there are some guys here that were happy with some profit, but for me they never worked, you should try an other system!

Ok, so I started with Ad.fly last month and made about $100 bucks. I'm up to close to 200 dollars this month with 6 websites, all with adf.ly bought traffic. So it sounds like I will not get paid and my account will probably get banned?

Can someone else why? Obviously customers are clicking on the adsense ads, isn't that the point of the ads? To get people to click on them?

I both confused and sad right now.

I should note, I'm looking over googles ad placement policies and I am not violating anyone of them. All my sites are legitimate blogs that I updates on a weekly basis about different tops. I simply have google ad on the right hand side and send traffic via Adf.ly. When I started this, I just wanted to get traffic to my sites.

All my sites have contact us pages, and privacy policies. They don't gather any information from the user.

Looks like google just don't like this kind of traffic and that's, usually nobody can do anything. Is their platform and they do whatever they like.

do not use it .don' u see many guy selling ad.fy bot everywhere

The past few years Google has been cracking down on publishers. I remember in the beginning it was the breadwinner for most affiliates.

Have you tried any other contextual advertising companies with adf.ly? You might be able to find a company whose terms allow insertional advertising.

I've been trying adbrite, bidvertiser and clicksor. None of them pay out nearly as well as google does with how I have it setup. I mean clicksor pays like 2cents per click compared to the average of .80-$1.00 I am getting for adsense.

Guess I will just wait and see what happens during the "authenticating" period at the beginning of June. I made about $100 in april with this setup. I am into the thousands this month, so I guess I will just see how it goes and let everyone know if I get the axe as well.

The irritating thing is I am not doing anything to persuade people to click on the ads on my website. It's just a simple blog site with adsense ads in the right pane. If they choose to click, it's because they found the ad interesting to click on.

Adfly is junk traffic.

Don't use it if you want to get banned.

Does the junk traffic do something that causes the user to click on the ads? I mean is it using bots to click on my ads that I don't know about?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around this. The simple "Don't use it cuz it's junk" doesn't really help. I'd like to know why exactly google doesn't like adfly, but I'm not sure anyone has that answer.

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I sent you request in skype, I guess I can't reply to PMs either yet .

Thanks again.

Be aware of making too much money too fast with adf.ly traffic going to adsense blogs....

If you only earned $100 in the month of April, then having a $4,000 day in the month of May is going to cause Google to look at you very carefully. It is too much too fast...

A couple tips : Filter your traffic through 1 or 2 free Web 2.0 sites like Weebly, LiveJournal, Typepad blogs, etc. - Do NOT place your adsense blog directly on adf.ly

Send to multiple different blogs with adsense, as mentioned before... have multiple adsense accounts in your name, brother or sister, Mom, Dad, uncle, cousin, grandma, grandpa, dog, whatever...

AND use some self-discipline and self-control start earning thousands of dollars a day on any new account or even an account that only earned $100 the month prior.

Good luck to you.

Thanks. Like i said, it kind of hit me me pretty quick and once i realized what was going on i stopped. I am completely expecting this account to get banned, but hopefully with better understanding i can be more prepared.

We all make mistakes, I know I have made them too, just be careful. I am using adf.ly too but filtering it through 2 web 2.0 sites before it touches my adsense blogs, and I limit it to earn between $50 to $100 a day, no more than that. Usually 3 bucks from Canada then 3 bucks from Australia but I mix it with worldwide traffic sometimes too.

When I had $73 in less than 4 hours on adsense with adf.ly traffic - that told me it was something to use with caution - like using fire.

I am curious to know what happens to your account in the next day or 2. I hope you get paid, but I really doubt you will.

There are a couple good people on Fiverr who create new adsense accounts, I just had 1 created for my sister-in-law, who will get 50% of any money earned, while I do all the work... I think I will have to make her compensate me in some other way, but I digress...

Keep me (or us) posted here. My fingers are crossed for you wishing you luck.

Thanks man, I really appreciate it. Do you have any links or advice for how to filter the traffic through web 2.0 sites. I'm not asking you to give me any secrets, that's wouldn't be fair. If you wanna PM me then that's cool, if you don't I understand. I Can just start googling.

One more quick question, if I do get banned and they don't reverse my appeal. Will I need to use all new domains for my new adsense account?

I'm in the same boat but i didn't acumulate anywhere near that amount. $23,000 in May and a $4,000 day! Wow!

Just a quick update, we are into June now and no word from g. I'm guessing the hammer will come in the next 7 days as they finalize the unpaid earnings. Or maybe when they are getting ready to pay. Not sure how it all works, just wanted to give an update.

I've gotten some amazing advice from people on these forums and I'm moving that way. Just wanna wait and see if I need a new account or not. I might as well get a second I guess anyway.

Interesting thread. Im new-ish to Adsense. I've made around $90 so far in just over 5 weeks. I have been using a site called Addmefast.com though - so im not sure whether Adsense will take that as a legit source of traffic.

I have just a couple of questions anyway.

1. I thought 'buying' ad.fly traffic was simply buying bots? I didnt think you could get clicks from traffic that way.

2. I have 2 blogspots, both linked to adsense. If adsense bans one of them, will the other keep running?

3. How the hell did you make $4,000 from fake traffic? - Impressive, but there's almost 0% chance of getting that paid.

4. Can you get another adsense account simply by applying for a new one on a new blog just a couple of days later?

It's not fake traffic, it's Interstitial. Basically people sign up on adfly as a link shortening service and get paid when people click on the link. So if I wanted to give out a link to my 100 twitter followers, I could post it as an adfly link and make a few bucks. When the person clicks on that link it goes to one of the paid traffic sites (in this case one of my blogs), and puts an adfly ad at the top and makes the person view the website for 5 seconds. Once five seconds is up, they can click skip and move onto the original intended URL.

Hopefully I explained that well. I was getting clicks in that 5 second period, though the average time on my sites was around 13-18 seconds. My guess is people were impatient, or didn't know about the 5 seconds and just started clicking. Maybe the ads had something to do with why they clicked the initial link, I don't know.

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Hi Ed, thanks for all this information. So with this services you just get your link Shorten and they advertise on your side , and you just post your link on social medias.
So in reality are you geting paid. 2x
From your adds and ad.fly ?
Just for information.
What kind of account should I get.
Link Shriner and earn money or advertiser .
It looks realy Intresting I think I will give it a shoot

No, I don't actually do the link shortening portion of it. I just purchase the traffic from adf.ly.

Some people have lots of luck with their site with adfly traffic, and some don't.

Quick update: I got my Adbrite account reinstated. They basically told me they banned it because my CTR was too high, it was around 7%. I explained to them that all I was doing was purchasing traffic from adfly. They told me if I blocked traffic from adfly they would reinstate, so I did and they did.

I also emailed adfly about the adbrite banning at the same time. Their response:

"Oh right, it was the traffic was TOO productive.. I see. Well -
normally this is not a problem for our advertisers providing the
results are there. We run our internal campaigns on AdF.ly and we see
CTR in that league but this is a good thing because many of the
visitors are converting. That is they are clicking on the advert and
then also signing up, downloading, what ever the advert is for.

I'm glad they gave you the account back though."

When you said you purchased trafict from them, how do you do that , you got a advertiser account ?
Sorry for my newb question.

Yes, advertiser account.

i was doing the same thing for a bit, thanks to 1 of the warrior who warned me quick and i stopped sending Adf.ly traffic. still got my adsense account

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Hello Ed,

Do you ever have a low CPC when using this traffic?

I think my adsense just got smart pricing tagged.

2 days ago its 0.70 per click. yesterday & today its 0.10 per click

You know, last month I didn't. I was getting .80-1.20 per click. But just today and yesterday I sent some adfly traffic direct and noticed what you mentioned. Even today I would be at $10, and the next refresh be at 8.60 or something.

Is that what's happening?

Did someone try to buy traffic to their adsense pages buying traffic from other sites simillar to adf.ly?

Shoe on the other foot here. Imagine having spent all this time setting up ad campaigns and having the stats skewed from "fake" impressions?

Google has to think of both advertisers and publishers. and seeing as the advertisers are the ones paying, what side are they going to back?

This is what i dont get. I dont understand how the clicks are fake, someone is making the decision to click the ad, right? Unless there is something lse going on.

My account did get disabled, and i am appealing it. I understand they need to protect the advertisers too. What i dont like is at the click of a button, then say. Account disabled, all your earnings gone. We are just gonna assume all of it was invalid. I will be the first to admit i got too far over my head. Sadly a 1500 dollar learning experience.

Yesterday afternoon, around 5 Pacific time. Just about the time they were to calculate my earnings for last month.

How come?

Sorry to hear Edfarias. Here's an update for mine:

My earnings have been finalized and my account is still up. The finalized earnings are quite a bit lower than the estimated earnings so that might raise a red flag. We'll see.

No, I assume as they were calculating it. I'm sure the big number raised a flag so they dug deeper. The basically said it Poses a Risk of Invalid Click activity.

Google adsense really pays low. You should try some related CPA offers and promote them with your site. It will help you a great deal. Also forget about adfly, it is bad in my opinion. People dont like locked threads.

In this way, as someone else said earlier, if you want to harm your competition buy from adf.ly some ads and wait...

Adsense bans you when using adf.ly proxy traffic.
Adsense doesn't like proxy traffic.

I didn't use any proxy traffic. Just USA, Canada, UK.

BTW, Appeal denied. Account gone forever.

It's pretty sad they won't give someone a second chance. Especially someone that has had their account for 7+ years. I completely admitted I screwed up in the appeal, and simply asked them to tell me what was wrong so I could be sure to not do it again. They couldn't even bother to do that, the basically just flipped me the bird and said thanks for playing.

Yes.
I'm going about it other ways now. Using other websites.

Though I think there is something going on with Adfly. I don't know if there are clickbots or what. I did a trial one day and just put up 2 CPA offers on one of my sites. I got almost 200 clicks in a day on those offers. Nothing converted.

I now know to be very careful when using adfly traffic.

It's known that traffic from adf.ly is of very low quality this is why you would need more then 200 clicks, because people usually accessing an adf.ly link is forced to access your link.

adf.ly uses iframe. that's why

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I don't think it is because of Adf.ly. Google never gives reason or explanation to ban Adsense account.

Amazing you though it could work. :rolleyes:

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Might have just worked if you sent the traffic to a landing page first.

Adsense just don't like arbitrage, period.

It was the killer way for gaming Adsense way back in 2003/4 when it came out, they introduced Smart Pricing first then they had to be more ruthless as people were still making a lot of money and the end users were not having a "good user experience".

We have link shortening technology at BLAM Ads, it's making publishers a killing.

ADF.ly worked for me for some while ago. But hearing this scary stuffs from you guys, I'm really thinking for alternative.

Dude i have never hear good things about Adf.ly. i don't know why but everyone things that the clicks form them are really out of work. You can see this in Google or any other ad network. So i think you can't blame Google

I feel exciting after knowing the truth.....thank you sir.

if you use a proxy detective system. you may find many clicks from ady is from proxy. I think this is the main reason for adsense account banned.

Just an idea, but what would happen if you used googles shortening service to make it look like it was coming from google through adfly.

do you use select every day at the campaign?? metoo.. since that i selected by day... not every dayy.. seems fine so far...

The frustrating thing about AdSense is that there isn't a real person you can talk to. If you send a support message, you get answered by a robot based on keywords in your email.

I started doing good with AdSense on YouTube though. If you post good videos that manage to get traffic they'll share the revenue with you.

As to Adf.ly I haven't been able to find a profitable campaign advertising with them, however, I actually made pretty good money by referring advertisers to Adf.ly. They pay by PayPal once a month and are reliable. You should join their affiliate program and earn a percentage of the campaigns your referrals create.

Blessings.

You will be banned if you get the traffic from adf.ly because the traffic is total trash and untargeted.

Adsense is best but their rules are very strict

Do it and kiss your account goodbye.

I disagree with "Google loves to ban people".

I used to have an Adsense website displaying adult content, and what they did was sending me an email to notify that ad serving to that website has been stopped, and resumed when I removed the content and emailed them.

And also got a takedown notice (DMCA) fom a company whose PDF I displayed on my other site (although only a preview), and once I removed the content, Google People just happy about it...

So, there is always a Legit reason behind Google disabling publisher's account, mainly for those who didn't read and understood their ToS...

JMO

Yeah, guys. There is a whole bunch of 2nd tier search engines that is living of PPC arbitrage. Wont example? Look at Ask.com and the rising star, 5earch.com. They simply buy ads from Google and than serve those same ads back via AdWords. I didn't research it any great depth, but Ask.com is blatantly doing everything that is prohibited by G's Terms and Conditions. For example, they change G's JavaScript code so that if you click on a white space near the ad, that will still send you to the destination page, although you didn't click on the ad's link.

My account was banned, never got any of that 25k .
I created a new account, used 1 or 2 pages before my sites with adfly, less income, but still some. Account banned.
Got a third account. Used it 100 percent legit. All my sites were converted over to SEO, and I was just getting organic traffic. I made a $1.30 cents so far. Account banned, I assume for be associated with the other 2 accounts somehow.

I have no way of getting a google account anymore and thinking it will stay alive for long. I have appealed every ban explaining what I did and they were all rejected.

To the person that sent me a PM, I don't have 50 posts so I can't respond, sorry.

I've switched to adbrite (if anyone has a better idea let me know). FYI, early on I was using adfly with adbrite and they banned my account. However, they have humans to talk too so once I explained what I was doing and promised to stop, they gave my account back.

I have used adf.ly for one of my websites, its traffic is useless

Lost my adsense account too. I am 95% sure it was because of buying adf.ly traffic.

I have replaced adsense with infolinks, but am not buying adf.ly traffic.

I now buy traffic from other sources, like Fiverr gigs that sell tweets, solo ads, ezine ads, using press releases, classified ads, buying banner ads on related blogs and forums, etc.

I built a 15K list in 10 days using adfly. Complete waste of my time, money and aweber fees.lol

This type of traffic is junk.

Well im not surprised... ive also tried it for a while but then reading around the net i discovered that you are not alone....
In anycase this sucks... it's tru you should be aware of their tos but ... money is money!

bidtraffic.com went well with adf.ly until 8-9 months ago. I was making around 500-600 $ /month but soon they started to ask me tons of questions like from where I receive traffic and things like that and they banned me

are there alternatives to adf.ly on the market right now that sends less trashy traffic?

Well that does hurt but now you can get away from Google since you already have the traffic and get one that even pays better and doesn't think they own you.

I use clicksor alot and they pay up to 60 percent. I actually monetize with over a 100 ways and do this for a reason. It's because I know at anytime the rules can change and I would be in the freezing cold.

My preferred method is still videos for traffic and monetization.

adfly views are very useless and they provide bad visitors and lots of bots. They are not worth using.

You asked for a ban. Anyone who uses adfly and adsense has not done all of their homework. You simply can't get away with it without going blackhat.

Deaing with Google expect to be banned once in awhile, it will happen not a big deal

Indeed it does not work.
Many adf.ly publishers have come across this issue,
as stated in one of the latest adf.ly announcements you can find on top of the page when you login to your account.

honestly adfly is bad for traffic but, i use there site to shorten urls and make extra cash. i post the urls on activeads.club which gains me a good ammount of clicks,

google adsense sucks, they always ban you lol

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to everyone who is using adfly for making money, where you guys get your traffic guys?

Well, I am now using my sisters Adsense account. Still making almost nothing, that mean like 2 cents for 2 months.