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adsense bot versus indexing bot

[Mcadieux]

This is my second post since I posted the first one in the wrong forum and it go moved to a preapprove forum? As far as I understand everytime you update google adsense the google but comes and lookes at your page to find the new keywords. Is this the same as when your page gets spidered? Does google just look at that one page or does it re index your whole site?

[MarkHutch]

Adsense bot (mediabot) and Googlebot are not connected. Adsense just looks at the one page. Googlebot follows links to most of the site. Adsense bot info does not show up in regular search results. It's only used for advertising.

[Mcadieux]

Does mediabot and googebot show up in site stats (avistats) as the same thing? It shows that googlebot has went to my site 115 times this month. That's what I was asking I should have said that in the beginning.

[Imaster]

Googlebot visits show up as "Googlebot (Google)" in my version of awstats. But I don't see any mention of Mediapartners-Google/2.1 bot.

I believe they are not counted together.

Use the following command on your site log file to determine the number of visits from various bots [Don't forget to go to the log file directory]:

1. grep Googlebot domain-access-log -c
[which will give you a total count for the particular bot]

2. grep Googlebot domain-access-log >> /www/htdocs/domain/google.html
which print the result in the path and file specified and then you can check it via browser.

You can do so by doing ssh to your site via a ssh client.

Hope that helps.