tristanperry - 11:02 am on Sep 10, 2011 (gmt 0)

I remember spotting an AdSense manual reviewer in my logs before my first $100 payment (it wasn't difficult to track down; I just stuck a bit of PHP tracking code on my websites' legal/copyright pages, as they're seldom visited by 'normal' visitors and I assumed - correctly - that AdSense reviewers would head for the legal pages).

The total 'inspection' took 1 minutes and 20 seconds. They started on my homepage, went to my copyright and privacy policy pages, then viewed a bunch of my content pages (5-8 I guess, so they may have had a tool which flagged up 'pages of interest' on their end?)

I didn't get banned from AdSense, so I guess I passed ;-)

(I knew I would as my sites aren't spammy and have minimal ads on them, so there was nothing anti-Google-TOS on them)

It's not great to think that Google inspections are only < 2 minutes in length (sounds like mine was longer than your webmaster inspection), but I guess the Google inspectors would have tonnes of sites to visit per day.