Adsense Internal Quality Review

Should I be worried?

[bnhall]

A few minutes ago one of my sites, which has been in Adsense for 3 months or so, was visited by someone with this as the referrer:

[gnome.corp.google.com...]

(blah is where I removed some identifiers)

Looks like an internal quality review to me. Questions - anyone seen these before? Should I be worried? I sent off to Adsense support a query, so we'll see.

[hyperkik]

I don't mind when my site is visited by happy little elves, but gnomes can be ornery. ;-)

[ownerrim]

given the number of scraper sites out there, it stuns me that quality could even be an issue

[bnhall]

Ok folks, got a reply from G after a few tense days. Paraphrased, it says:

The URL you cited is used in our internal ad testing network. To ensure proper rendering of ads in different browsers we sometimes review sites that display our ads. We apologize for any inconvenience or alarm this may have caused.