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Why The Numbers of Ads Has Been Limited?

According to Google’s website, this is due fishy traffic from illegal way of getting traffic to the website.

It is automatic detection by Google. When it is flagged, Google team will evaluate and Google doesn’t give any timeline how long it takes them to evaluate. Based on other people experience it took 2 – 4 weeks to lift the ban or continue it until the illegal traffic is resolved.

google doesn’t give any timeline to evaluate

Why Google Automatically Detected My Website’s Traffic Is Fishy?

I suspected that due to my website’s traffic pattern which has a spike on certain period of time and suddenly drop drastically.

I know this based on Google Analytics statistics. I have one article where I have sudden increase and sudden drop of visitors based on certain period where it is normal due to the nature of its content.

What To Do?

When I check my Google Analytics I didn’t have any spike of bots visits to my website or any kind of fishy traffic.

So I decided not to do anything because I know I didn’t do anything illegal on my traffic.

Of course I don’t have any more my daily income but based on all articles I read, it is best to do nothing if the traffic is legal.

My website is a WordPress website. I wanted to create a form with a reCaptcha protection using Google reCaptcha v2 (tick box). Surprisingly it doesn’t work even though it works on my other website using same PHP code.

After Ticking the reCaptcha

It doesn’t work if use file_get_contents

$data = array('secret' => 'your-secret', 'response' => $_POST['g-recaptcha-response']);

$url = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret='
               .$data['secret'] . '&response=' . $data['response'];
$result = file_get_contents($url);
$result = json_decode($result);


if(!$result->success):
 echo 'error';
 return;
endif;

echo 'success';

$data = array('secret' => 'your-secret', 'response' => $_POST['g-recaptcha-response']);

$url = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret='

.$data['secret'] . '&response=' . $data['response'];

$result = file_get_contents($url);

$result = json_decode($result);

if(!$result->success):

echo 'error';

return;

endif;

echo 'success';

Google reCaptcha keeps sending me error.

It works if using curl

$url = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify';
$data = array('secret' => 'your secret key', 'response' => $_POST['g-recaptcha-response']);

$verify = curl_init();
curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($verify);

$responseData = json_decode($response);
if($responseData->success):
 // your success code goes here
// echo 'success';
     return true;
                  
     else:
        // return error to user; they did not pass
        // echo 'fail';

        return false;
endif;

$url = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify';

$data = array('secret' => 'your secret key', 'response' => $_POST['g-recaptcha-response']);

$verify = curl_init();

curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));

curl_setopt($verify, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($verify);

$responseData = json_decode($response);

if($responseData->success):

// your success code goes here

// echo 'success';

return true;

else:

// return error to user; they did not pass

// echo 'fail';

return false;

endif;

Tag: Google

Google reCaptcha v2 Doesn’t Work using PHP on my Website

After Ticking the reCaptcha

It doesn’t work if use file_get_contents

It works if using curl

Why The Numbers of Ads Has Been Limited?

Why Google Automatically Detected My Website’s Traffic Is Fishy?

What To Do?

Google Started To Show Ads

Conclusion

After Ticking the reCaptcha

It doesn’t work if use file_get_contents

It works if using curl