Gremlins playing at Google?

[johncr]

The facts:
-A month ago, I registered a new domain and subscribed a new hosting.
-As usual, I uploaded a blank index.html page at the root.
-15 days after, I uploaded some pages. At that time none of the pages had AdSense scripts.
-This week, I uploaded some 70 pages and included AdSense scripts (new channel created) in all of them.
-The index.html is still blank.
-Nobody knows I'm building a new site.
-Yesterday I used the Google Preview Tool to ban some URL's.

The funny thing:
This morning I checked my Report and found the following:

-I have 2000+ Page impressions assigned to the new channel since 3 months ago!!!!
-Have got some clicks during July, August, and September before my domain was registered and the pages/channel were created.
-Have earned some bucks!!! :eek:

Of course I have enough AdSense experience and own other sites running AdSense, to risk fraudulent clicks.

How comes? Have anyone experienced something like this?

I think it is a good idea to save the monthly reports in order to compare results.

[schlottke]

Google's bots follow impressions where Adsense ads are- not sure if it checks non-adsense pages on the same domain or not though?

[johncr]

Except for the Preview I did yesterday, Google was unaware of my new site.

[schlottke]

adsense bots and content bots are different. You can get hit by the adsense bot before anything else because they come directly where their JS is called from.


-Have got some clicks during July, August, and September before my domain was registered and the pages/channel were created.
-Have earned some bucks!!!

those are pretty weird though... lol.

[mxlabs]

sounds like buggy behaviour to me... nobody's perfect

[Infiniterb]

Very odd behavior. I've never seen that from adsense. I'm sure it's a bug. Keep us posted if they correct the error or let it slide.

[johncr]

It's so weird that I have saved the html page.