googlesyndication.com

What the heck is this?

[JonR28]

Has anyone seen Googlesyndication.com? It looks just like google, I am getting like 70 hits a day from pagead2.googlesyndication.com... does anyone know what the heck this is?

[AthlonInside]

Google AdWords ads but deliever from partner sites through AdSense.

[Dave_Hawley]

What AthlonInside said

I have disabled these on most of my ads as the traffic is most 'junk traffic'.

[chiyo]

if the site is the one in your profile i would recommend making sure your adwords (whether for google search, partner search, or content sites) are being delivered to US users only. You seem to be getting quote a few hits from content (Adsense) sites!

[chiyo]

Hi Dave..

>>I have disabled these on most of my ads as the traffic is most 'junk traffic'.<<

Are you refering to earch partners (AOL etc) or content sites (Adsense)?

It is a fairly broad and strong statement. What makes you say that? Is it based on any survey or objective data (and in what industries or topic areas) or intuition (PS nothing against intuition!)

It is feasible that AOL for example could produce good leads for broad consumer goods for example, and many niche accounting/finance professional content sites could provide good qualified and targeted leads for a jobs career site.

[JonR28]

It is pretty annoying actually, we get about 500 hits a day from www.galaxysearch.net which appearse to be entirely Adsense, which means we are paying for 500 hits from some crazy search engine no one has ever heard of. I don't have access to our google adwords account but I will let our people know about it.

I wouldnt think that Googlesyndication.com would be legal tho, seeing as how they copied everything, the text, the logo, and the results from the actual google.

[Jenstar]

I wouldnt think that Googlesyndication.com would be legal tho, seeing as how they copied everything

Googlesyndication IS part of Google, so it is perfectly legal for them to use all things Google on their page ;)

we get about 500 hits a day from www.galaxysearch.net which appearse to be entirely Adsense

If that is showing up in you referral logs, it is not coming as part of the AdSense program. All clicks from a site running AdSense will show up only as pagead2.googlesyndication.com, not as the individual site itself. From the look of galaxysearch, I would guess someone from your company signed up for advertising through them - I couldn't see any AdSense being used there at all.

[JonR28]

We didnt sign up for galaxy search, they are pulling their ads from someone, I don't know if we are paying for those hits or not. (Overture maybe?)

I didnt realize that googlesyndication.com was actually owned by google. So I guess I shouldnt worry about my hits comming from there?

[WebWalla]

I wouldn't worry at all, if those hits increase your ROI - what does it matter where they come from? Try tracking a few of them, to see what those vistors do (i.e, do they disappear immediately after viewing the homepage and seeing what the site is about, or do they browse about a bit, perhaps returning later and actually *gasp* buying something).