Tracing Content Targeted Sites?

How to trace sites providing huge clicks through Content Sites.

[financialhost]

Please Note:
This question regards content targeting sites ( recieving clicks from sites using adsense ), NOT the new site targeting CPM tool.

We are recieving a large amount of traffic from an Italian website through our Content Targeting and considering the industry it can only be one large site, possible two- providing this traffic.

We know that the traffic is authentic because our conversion rate is also excellent, but we know of no sites that could provide this amount of clicks from Italy.

What measures can i take in order to try to track down the mystery site/s where this traffic is coming from?

Any help really appreciated.

[RedWolf]

Look in your logs for referers that contain googlesyndication.com in the refering URL.

It will look something like:

pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-6867100106967280&dt=1118169636413&lmt=1118169636&format=160x600_as&output=html&channel=1390959884&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D70730&color_bg=eae3f9&color_text=000000&color_link=3D2275&color_url=BB313E&color_border=000000&ad_type=text&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fforumdisplay.php%3Ff%3D78&cc=100&u_h=768&u_w=1024&u_ah=740&u_aw=1024&u_cd=24&u_tz=-240&u_java=true

The example.com in the line will be the site, and you can get the page information by replacing the %2F with / and the %3A with :

Cheers

[financialhost]

If that is the way it really works... your a star!

Thanks a million.

[financialhost]

We are trying to get the information from our database but some of the urls are cutting off at 78 characters while others are not, example below,

[pagead2.googlesyndication.com...]

Is this a problem with our sql database and coding or do some google referals cut down the query string to stop people like me discovering the source of adsense publishers?

Any help really appreciated.

[edited by: eWhisper at 1:51 pm (utc) on Aug. 5, 2005]
[edit reason] Please don't leave identifiable info [/edit]