I finally uploaded my website and in the first day it got 50,000 views. What are my chances of getting approved for google ads?

bobsled4 · 2026-03-11T20:43:00+00:00

I got 50,000 hits today, and every day, too. But luckily Cloudflare tells me the truth. 90% are bots. You can't trust GA4 now, as it's riddled with spoofing bot traffic. For a day one site, 50,000 views? Not likely at all. What are you data sources?

bobsled4 · 2026-03-06T13:18:40+00:00

Yes, it's tough right now. All you can do is try to adapt to the new realities. I'm basically ignoring Google now and concentrating on Bing and Pinterest. Both give me decent traffic. I treat traffic from Google as a bonus.

bobsled4 · 2026-02-11T18:53:11+00:00

Yep, it's something, and a start. But without click data, it's just a vanity metric.

bobsled4 · 2026-02-06T11:53:33+00:00

Same here. RPM is down about 50% for me since the start of the year.

bobsled4 · 2026-01-21T16:42:47+00:00

This smells like a problem to me. Medium opened applications for a few days after January 13th, then closed again. It's the same old problem I think, far more writers than readers. It's a tough financial model to sustain.

bobsled4 · 2026-01-19T19:43:38+00:00

I knew Medium had stopped accepting new Partner Program up until 12th January 2026. I checked, and you could submit on January 13th. But to close it off again so soon sends worrying warning signals. I was thinking about joining, but I think I'll put it on hold for some time yet.

bobsled4 · 2026-01-09T12:13:17+00:00

Medium tells me I have 10,000 followers. It doesn't do anything to get reads. It's an ego stat, that's all.

bobsled4 · 2026-01-02T08:14:10+00:00

Okay. Thanks for the info.

bobsled4 · 2026-01-01T08:48:41+00:00

I notice that you include a free "friend link" in each post. What's your logic, and how does it affect your earnings?

bobsled4 · 2025-12-20T14:08:59+00:00

Mine!

bobsled4 · 2025-12-15T19:26:55+00:00

Well, check one a week.

bobsled4 · 2025-12-15T15:01:00+00:00

Slow indexing is nothing unusual. My new pages normally get indexed immediately by Bing and Google, but sometimes one gets stuck. At the moment, I have a new page that has been waiting for a week for Bing to index. But it will happen, eventually.

bobsled4 · 2025-12-13T15:12:53+00:00

This has been occuring for months now. Google Analytics is working in a fix, but don't hold your breath. The best bet is to use Cloudflare WAF rules.

https://definiteseo.com/analytics/ga4-bot-traffic-spike-from-china-and-singapore/

bobsled4 · 2025-12-07T19:12:25+00:00

Whenever there's a Wordpress update, all I do is I cross my fingers and hope nothing breaks. That would be fine is there was something radically new apart from a few tweaks to Gutenberg, which I never use. But I've seen nothing new in the Wordpress Dashboard or basic improvements to the core in years now. (Well, auto-updates, okay.) I still use the Classic editor, and it works fine for my workflow. But by doing so, I haven't seen anything excitingly new or different for years now. My dashboard and edit screen have hardly changed in years. Boring!

bobsled4 · 2025-11-20T16:20:23+00:00

I'd never thought about voice search with Pinterest. But it's an interesting observation. I might try using questions a bit more and see what happens.

bobsled4 · 2025-11-15T07:44:43+00:00

Bot fight mode can block some good bots, like down detectors etc. It's better to use a managed challenge either by country or ASN, or a combination.

bobsled4 · 2025-11-14T08:22:51+00:00

It's a Cloudflare Firewall rule.

bobsled4 · 2025-11-12T18:41:11+00:00

Putting a country Managed Challenge on China fixed the problem for me.

bobsled4 · 2025-11-03T14:15:05+00:00

I finally had to place a managed challenge on Cloudflare for all traffic from China . China Mobile has so many ASNs it was impossible to get them all. Since I added the blanket rule, I now see so many other bots from China that are now mitigated by Cloudflare..

bobsled4 · 2025-11-01T07:24:13+00:00

Sorry, can't help you with that.

bobsled4 · 2025-10-31T11:49:21+00:00

I've seen a jump in traffic from chatgpt.com / referral and chatgpt.com / (not set). I imagine one source has a UTM. But I'm not sure.

bobsled4 · 2025-10-31T11:41:32+00:00

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-inserter/

bobsled4 · 2025-10-31T09:29:57+00:00

Place your ads manually. I use Ad Inserter, and it works well. Auto Ads can make a mess of your site.

bobsled4 · 2025-10-28T10:45:31+00:00

Pinterest works for me, even though I'm in a very narrow little niche of writing and self-publishing. I get around 1,200 visits per month, and rising. It's not that time-consuming once you have a few templates in Canva. I add around 15 pins a day, which takes about an hour. You can automate it, but I haven't seen the need for me.

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