adsense bot

why would it spider a site that doesn't have adsense

[top5jamaica]

anyone with any ideas as to why a site of mine that doesn't have adsense on it would be spidered by the adsense bot (Mediapartners-Google/2.1 ( [googlebot.com...]

webtrends said it made 2 hits, 1 visitor session. any thoughts?

[loanuniverse]

Opera browser would be my guess. {free versions have google ads built in}

I also think some search engines serve your content in frames with adsense. Not 100% on that, but too lazy to check.

[ronin]

Funny you should mention that but way back in March or April, long before plans for AdSense were public knowledge people were posting on the Google News thread asking questions like:

What's this Google MediaPartners bot? Who are they? Are they spoofing Googlebot? What's their relationship with Google?

[vrtlw]

When I was researching whether Adsense would be a suitable addition to my site I stumbled across a tool that claimed to provide you with an idea of what Ad's would appear on a site.

After using this tool I was quite dismayed at the lack of context these Ads had to my content.

However looking at my logs an hour later I noticed that the MediaPartners bot had visited my site. Trying the tool again, the results were far more targeted to content.

This leads me to question, would there be anyone else interested in seeing what kind of Ads may be served on the forementioned website (an author of some of the text or an employee)? Perhaps they used a similar tool.