montrealcoming
05-01-2006, 05:55 PM
Hello guys this is my 1st post here after reading the forum for some time now.
I am coming from a European country – Greece and I’ve recently started studying adsense as an innovative way of getting some money to cover my hosting and that’s it. I don’t really have the energy at this point to study 3000 pdf’s and optimize heavily, while I judge at some point I will.
Now I started just 2 weeks ago with a site, where I write about a theme I know pretty well and that’s about gym training routines etc. I maintain a forum in the Greek language in the same theme and I have a crowd of about 2000 members.
Now I use the url of that site to my signature and since I am the chief moderator and I have about 3800 posts over the past two years that link comes up fairly often when someone browse the threads in my forum.
Since I have just submitted my site to Google and yahoo and I haven’t use any fast SEO tricks/link exchange etc, I judge that whatever traffic I get is from my forums members that enjoy reading some of my stuff in that site. Thing is that while I was aiming for maybe $20 bucks a month I know get around $10 a day! Don’t get me wrong I wont throw extra income on the street for nothing and I am welcoming it, however when I checked my logs for the website and got a feeling on my visitors, I saw a lot of visitors for an un-indexed website around 170 a day that were unique different IP’s and numerous hosts they were all but maybe 4 of Greek origin. Meaning that their ISP’s were Greek their IP’s were Greek.
Now in my mind I know that the reason I get only Greek visitors is because my forum is in the Greek language and deals with Greek people, and that the ad clicking is due to the fact that they see things that we don’t have in Greece, such as certain herbal supplemental and training equipment. And since I have NOT asked implied directed anyone to click on the ads, I am sure they just see stuff they haven’t see and go to have a look and probably convert.
Now my question is this: Should I be worried that Google may not like the fact the 98% of the clicks on my site is Greek and ban me? I don’t get like 3000 clicks from the same IP maybe an average 2 per IP but should I take steps to prevent that? I don’t want to get banned for nothing.
I have a ctr of about %25 and I want to try and split them someway dividing into different sections, like one site for herbal one for routines, one for equipment. Will that help my situation about same country traffic any you think?
Thanks for your time,
MP
I am coming from a European country – Greece and I’ve recently started studying adsense as an innovative way of getting some money to cover my hosting and that’s it. I don’t really have the energy at this point to study 3000 pdf’s and optimize heavily, while I judge at some point I will.
Now I started just 2 weeks ago with a site, where I write about a theme I know pretty well and that’s about gym training routines etc. I maintain a forum in the Greek language in the same theme and I have a crowd of about 2000 members.
Now I use the url of that site to my signature and since I am the chief moderator and I have about 3800 posts over the past two years that link comes up fairly often when someone browse the threads in my forum.
Since I have just submitted my site to Google and yahoo and I haven’t use any fast SEO tricks/link exchange etc, I judge that whatever traffic I get is from my forums members that enjoy reading some of my stuff in that site. Thing is that while I was aiming for maybe $20 bucks a month I know get around $10 a day! Don’t get me wrong I wont throw extra income on the street for nothing and I am welcoming it, however when I checked my logs for the website and got a feeling on my visitors, I saw a lot of visitors for an un-indexed website around 170 a day that were unique different IP’s and numerous hosts they were all but maybe 4 of Greek origin. Meaning that their ISP’s were Greek their IP’s were Greek.
Now in my mind I know that the reason I get only Greek visitors is because my forum is in the Greek language and deals with Greek people, and that the ad clicking is due to the fact that they see things that we don’t have in Greece, such as certain herbal supplemental and training equipment. And since I have NOT asked implied directed anyone to click on the ads, I am sure they just see stuff they haven’t see and go to have a look and probably convert.
Now my question is this: Should I be worried that Google may not like the fact the 98% of the clicks on my site is Greek and ban me? I don’t get like 3000 clicks from the same IP maybe an average 2 per IP but should I take steps to prevent that? I don’t want to get banned for nothing.
I have a ctr of about %25 and I want to try and split them someway dividing into different sections, like one site for herbal one for routines, one for equipment. Will that help my situation about same country traffic any you think?
Thanks for your time,
MP