Why am I seeing a foreign language "ads by" Google label on link unit?

[MrSavage]

I need to inquire about bizarre ad behavior. This happens on one of my sites. I've checked the ad code etc and all appears fine. With that said I've noticed by awstats showing far more traffic than Google Adsense is showing views. I'm wondering if something is amiss here. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've just never seen foreign language on any sites when displaying a link unit "Ad by Google". Not even sure what language it is. The link unit text is in English though.

[netmeg]

I dunno about your impressions, but the only time I've seen the foreign language thing on my own sites was when the AdSense bot that spiders the site was blocked.

[jpch]

I saw it once about a week or so ago...haven't seen it since. It actually looked kind of cool...one time and drew my attention that that area of the page. Wouldn't want to see it on a regular basis since I don't speak Chinese.

[HuskyPup]

I used to have this every time I looked at one of my .eu sites, German ads were displayed even though the domain name and site was all in English. I have other .eu sites with no problems whatsoever.

I'm currently building a new site to go on this domain therefore it will be interesting to see what happens when I launch it...oh, just realised, I won't know since I'm not putting AdSense on any new sites now, ok, I'll try an AdUnit and see what happens.

[MrSavage]

Thanks for the replies. Indeed this is quite confusing. It's a .net domain hosted on US soil and is a Wordpress site. It's English 100%. I'm quite concerned about being hacked. I've had woothemes installed and that has proven interesting from a security standpoint. I will look into anything being blocked somehow.

[MrSavage]

Well in fact I'm seeing this foreign text on a different Wordpress site, same server. As with the other instance this is a link unit. Not sure what to say other than this can't be good.