Forum Moderators: martinibuster
Yesterday and today the traffic makes a noticeable jump upwards. Like a lot of you, I also double track the traffic for a number of reasons.
My logs are showing that 17 different 'people' each asked for a total quantity of between 425 and 432 pages each. Not a significant quantity, but all 17 are supposedly from 'non-english speaking' countries (if I can be that general) from the information that they supplied.
I've never seen this before, but Google obviously thinks its valid traffic and is recording it, because my numbers are really close to Google in terms of impressions, including the 17.
Anyone else seen something like this?
Paranoid from all the AdSense horror stories that I've read here and other message boards, I immediately reported the activity to AdSense support, including IP addresses and the time span of the activity.
Man, did I feel dumb when I researched it further and found out this was a Googlebot, indexing my content.
D'oh!
i think you'll find that this is a normal ie browser that has had fun web products installed.
so if you block it you are blocking regular users.
But I was doing fine before this bot showed up and bloated my logs. It was like hundreds of pages requested by each user within a ten minute period - now that's ridiculous!
Now that I've blocked it, doesn't seem to have affected earnings.
