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I understand that Google toolbar monitors the traffic from Internet Explorer where it is installed, but I find it very strange if it can even monitor other traffic from my computor, in this case from Opera or ws_ftp.
IE with toolbar was open but not used while I uploaded the page and checked it with Opera.
What do you think? Other explanations?
all pages visited by opera get a mediabot vist because opera serves adwords in the right top corner.
So every URL you visit with Opera is immediately passed to google to investigate to serve advertisements on the next time someone visits that page.
Yes that explanation sounds very logical, how come I didn't think of it myself. This explains the "Mediapartners" bot.
its your opera.all pages visited by opera get a mediabot vist because opera serves adwords in the right top corner.
So every URL you visit with Opera is immediately passed to google to investigate to serve advertisements on the next time someone visits that page.
Wow. So would I be correct to assume that my web stats are inaccurate for every visitor using the free version of Opera? That the total number of page views on my site is actually less?
(Total Page Views = (Total Page Views - Opera Page Views))
I would think that it would get information about the page from Google's cache, not from a fresh copy of the page every time.
They will investigate the crawled data and base their advertisements that are showed in the right corner upon that.
They are not serving as a cache provider.
no what I said is that mediabot visits every URL that is accessed in any Opera browser.They will investigate the crawled data and base their advertisements that are showed in the right corner upon that.
They are not serving as a cache provider.
Mediabot, Google, whoever ... my question is are my web stats inaccurate because Opera users are effectively causing two page views for every one? Or is this something that only happens once in a while.
Esspecially if you don't have a lot of people visiting with Opera.
Another thing is that mediabot only visits pages that were first visited by someone using an opera browser and it doesn't follow all links on your page.
Regarding stats. No idea but they are in my robot section (I use awstats) and therefore they are not calculated in my user stats (robot visits are filtered out in awstats).
