u/Piadellanno

Hi everyone,

I just received a notification that my site has been suspended from Journey by Mediavine with a 50-day reapplication countdown.

The reason given is: "evidence that your site has been receiving traffic from invalid sources."

To give some context, I recently suffered massive bot traffic spikes coming from Singapore that completely messed up my analytics and stats. As soon as I realized what was happening, I immediately implemented Cloudflare to block them and protect the site. Unfortunately, it looks like Mediavine's automated systems caught the residual impact of those bots before or during the cleanup.

I'm quite stressed about this and not sure how strict they are during the appeal or reapplication process. Also, I've been hearing rumors lately in the community that ad networks are tightening things up aggressively.

If you've been through a similar situation where bot traffic triggered an invalid traffic (IVT) suspension, Did you manage to get reinstated before the 50 days by contacting support with Cloudflare/Analytics proof? What kind of evidence did you provide to show you fixed the issue?

Any advice or insights would be hugely appreciated!

Morning everyone! Quick question for the experts here: my beauty blog is monetized through Journey and only brings in around $3.50 a day. It feels super low to me. My tech-savvy friends say it’s normal because AI overviews are killing blogging. Users just look for a summary or ask a specific question, the AI provides the answer, and they never end up clicking through to the blogs. It’s creating a massive zero-click search problem. Do you think this is a valid point? Are AI overviews really the main reason for low traffic and earnings right now.? Other people are actually telling me that making $3.50 a day, which is around $100 a month, is something I should be happy with, because a lot of bloggers make even less! Should I try affiliate marketing for cosmetics instead?

https://preview.redd.it/wsdzrc7jr3nh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e425f2afdf0842fc11ea514f8b728d19bc2b140

It's just .25 oz, but it's enough!