click from 127.0.0.1

how in the world?

[muszek]

I use asrep for tracking adsense performance of my newsest site. Today I noticed a click from 127.0.0.1, which is localhost (a machine that the site resides at). Could anyone try to give an explanation?

Edit:
Site is on a regular webhosting company's server (uses h-sphere).
Noticed 107 ad impressions from 127.0.0.1, too.
The adsense is being displayed only on 3 unique URL's.

[mvander]

I would guess someone "grabbed" your site, ads and all and is running locally on a test server or something like that. For whatever reason...good heads-up to watch for a copycat to show up soon perhaps.

[muszek]

Is it just me, or does the world look like everyone around is killable nowdays? Looking for a decent domain name - 99% of my ideas are taken. 90% of them are parked/for sale domains. Creating a fun site - someone attempts to steal it before I even start promoting...

Anyways - if someone ran it on his computer, how in the world would it trigger my asrep and tell it that the click was made from the same computer?

[seogrrl]

I'm showing the same thing except the referrers are the e drive. I just had a bad thought about someone getting you kicked out by doing this. Don't think I'll post it, but I sure will be tracking these types of clicks and report them to the adsense team if I see an increase in these types of clicks.

SEOGrrl

[linear]

local drive is pretty easily explained though--someone saved an offline copy of your page.

Perhaps the 127.0.0.1 was a page served from browser cache using google desktop search?

[mvander]

Perhaps the 127.0.0.1 was a page served from browser cache using google desktop search?

That is good thinking, that certainly could be a possibility. Someone viewing their own cache.

If it was just a "saved" copy, then you'd see the file system path (C:\savedsite.htm\etc)

To be 127.0.0.1 it would have to be through *some* web server, which could very well be the google desktop server engine.

[muszek]

There's one thing I haven't said and should be known. Those pages with adsense code are dynamicly created. To be more specific: either that URL receives certain $_POST data or is worthless. And no, it's not easy to reproduce the result... .

And those 1xx impressions is 1x% of total impressions I got that day, so it's not that every one out of 1000 people that visited my page found cached version and opened it.