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From 5:46 AM to 7:56 AM, I've had several hits from a certain university in Georgia using at least 7 different IPs. Some of the pages hit were misspelled, even though they had been on the correct page earlier. I assumed this meant it was an actual person typing the address by memory (as opposed to a bot). They used the site search a few times. They then tried to access mydomain.com/existingdirectory/none - with the word "none" bringing up an error page, of course. I understand bots will do this in testing from time to time - especially Yahoo's bots but I think these were actual people. Bots don't misspell from memory - or do they?
My question is - should I be concerned? The site is under 100 pages and it's had 3 times the normal hits (not all due to the university but they are a huge contributor). It doesn't make any sense why these IPs came and went on the site for several hours. There's just not enough on the site to warrant it. The requests for misspelled pages is really strange. Could there be a university class studying the site's content for that long? I mean, I highly doubt it but it just doesn't look like robot activity. Can anyone help me figure this out? There isn't a way to tell which IP clicked on an AdSense ad, is there?
By the way, a bot just fell into my misbehaving spider trap and its IP is located in Georgia (not the university IPs). Coincidence?
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By the way, a bot just fell into my misbehaving spider trap and its IP is located in Georgia (not the university IPs). Coincidence?
Probably not a coincidence at all. Why not drop Adsense Support an email telling them just what you've told us and offer them a copy of your logs, just to be on the safe side.
In the thread above several mention the possibility of a click attack. A couple others seem to indicate very large income increases. This really does sound like an attack on Adsense.
If this is occuring smart pricing might decrease everybody's income because of lots of clicks not converting. My earnings are a little down too, but there's definitely no click attacks on my domains.
