Is traffic exchange against google adsense terms and conditions?
If you are going to use AdSense, it's up to you to read the TOS as you will be legally held to understanding and following their rules,
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms
Not very sure what do you mean by traffic exchange here. But for your kind information buying traffic from traffic generating sites is a violation of google's TOS and they can disable/ban the account for the lifetime......... so act smartly and wisely......
Yes, using traffic exchanges is against Google AdSense's Terms, and also against ours. Your hubs will be unpublished if you send traffic to them from traffic exchange sites, and your account may be banned for repeated offenses.
by Siew Cheng 15 years ago
Yesterday I was surfing easyhits4u, and came across one hubber using easyhits4u to generate traffic to her hub.Hopefully nobody clicks on the google ad that is so prominently displayed on her hub. It's very risky to use any traffic exchange. Google will definitely cancel the Adsense...
by Peg Cole 13 years ago
Today I got a warning violation on one of my hubs and I have no idea what it means or how to fix it. This hub has been copied and plagerized for months by people on RedGage and Digital Writer and FreeAdWebsites and other places. I've reported most of these and tried to get them to stop posting my...
by sasta10 13 years ago
Hi, there are various website out there that lets you buy thousands of traffics for your website and they usually send traffic to your site within 24 hours. Firstly does any one know how they do this and secondly it this against google adsense policy ( would you get penalised if google finds...
by belief713 17 years ago
Hi all,I tried finding my answer elsewhere with no luck so I figured I'd see if anyone here knows the answer. I was thinking of advertising one of my hubs with a Paid To Click site...a) does HubPages allow that?b) does Google AdSense allow that?I saw on one of the other forum topics that you...
by Hollie Thomas 13 years ago
Hi,I've had a worrying automated message on one of my hubs which states "warning your hub appears to be receiving traffic from a traffic exchange" I've back linked all my hubs in the same way. I do not understand what this means. Has anyone else received warnings like this?
by najiasalman1 14 years ago
Today i have noticed that my traffic to all the hubs is drastically down and i am much worried about it. Have you also noticed this? Please guide me what should i do. My traffic is lost. LOT OF BLUE DOWN ARROWS ON STATS ARE SHOWING.
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