Testing Google's filtering algorithm

Scared to post this

[Clark]

With all the spambots and robots/spiders going around, I guess all of us are wondering how well Google filters out these robots from the clicks and impressions and also how much of our income if any comes from robot clicks.

I've wanted to add this .htaccess ban list:
[webmasterworld.com...]
for a long time, however it may conflict with the software our server uses so I haven't really tried.

If someone else would like to try the ban list on a site where they have adsense and compare their income before and after, please do post your experience here. Thank you.

[justageek]

Bots cannot inherently run the javascript code. They have to be specially written to handle javascript and even then it is not always an easy task. I doubt much automated traffic, if any, makes it through.

JAG

[Clark]

I figured as much, although the spambots probably want to check out email addresses and such which are often JS encrypted, so I thought they may have built-in parsers for JS by now.

[justageek]

It certainly is possible just very hard to make it worthwhile ;-)

JAG