Charged for spider impression ?

Discussion in 'Digital Point Ads' started by Mobile-Monster, Aug 10, 2011.

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    Just checking through the stats hell lot of forum spiders User Agent

    
BoardPulse (ISSpider-3.0; http://www.blogpulse.com; compatible; MSIE 6.0)
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    Is it normal to be charged for impression for these ?
     
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    Anyone else experiencing being charged for non-human impression ?
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    If a spider spoofs as being an end user like they do (pretending to be Internet Explorer), it could happen. Either way, the spider has been permanently blocked from our servers and you have received a credit adjustment that credits back everything they caused.
     
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    Thanks Shawn for fixing this up. Surprised no one else mentioned this before. :)
     
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    It's pretty rare... we have all known spiders locked down. That just is an obscure one that was spoofing as a valid browser.
     
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