DoubleClick COnfused?

[panicbutton]

For the last month or so my stats package (Goog analytics) has been telling me that I am getting between 20-80 VISITS each day from "googleads.g.doubleclick.net" (listed in referring sites in Analytics). These are identified as visitors in analytics and I have no integration with Adsense).

What does this mean?

Oh, and also while the referrals from the above URL were coming in my Adsense eCPM went up 500% (woohoo, pity it's stopped now, as have the referrals).

I'm totally confused. Any guidance gratefully accepted.

[incrediBILL]

Sounds like you were running ads, or someone was running ads, directing traffic to your server.

[swa66]

There are tools to set your referrer string yourself. E.g. the RefControl add-on in Firefox.
Maybe you have a visitor who likes to confuse your stats.

[zdgn]

I too get referrals from googleads.g.doubleclick.net. In my case they seem to come from the alternate ad pages that I have set up, in case AdSense does not show ads for some reason. These alternate ads are just links to my own pages.

[panicbutton]

Thanks for the suggestions. Not sure that any really make sense. Weird.

[Bddmed]

I've seen Adsense ads for my site on my site in the past and I don't even have an Adwords account. Why? I really don't know.