There is one friends of mine "A", on his website, "A" always check on the referal activity or where does the visitor come from and how they get to his website. "A" recently found some strange referal, that goes like this : "http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&domains=imesh.com&client=pub-3233632352412683&channel=&safe=&cof=GALT%3A008000%3BDIV%3Af4f4f4%3BVLC%3A551A8B%3BALC%3AFF0000%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A7777CC%3BGIMP%3AA90A08%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fime" "A" website have nothing to do with imesh webisite and imesh website doesn't have search textbox to search. So why does this google adsense publisher add his own id for the google adsense and search on "A" website? Is this a way to get more income for your own Mr.or Mrs "pub-3233632352412683" and this publisher doesn't know that his own IP also was record for this activity. Can anyone let my friend know, whether it is legal doing this?
Maybe the program a person downloads at imesh has a the "google free" search in it? It looks just like they are finding your friends site through a "google free" search box. Don't think there is anything wrong going on, and it doesn't pay anything. http://www.google.com/searchcode.html
What effect does having "client=pub-3233632352412683" code when using "free search" considering it doesn't pay like the adsense search does? Looks like they're using this: (which is more customizable) http://www.google.com/services/free.html
you don't have to be in adsense to be in adwords. they are independent. anyway i really don't quite get your question. seems as though someone reached A's website through the Google freeway. and it doesn't pay anything, so why should it be legal or not legal?
Ok. I admit that i not very well know about the adwords or adsenses. But can anyone explain to me this. What i saw on the code is, there is a website named imesh.com + a google.com, lets say if this is a google freeway(that i'm not familiar with what it can do also), i went inside this imesh.com, trying to look out for any clue or any letters that is link to any adwords or ads or adsense, but what i found out is Nil, none, how does this 2 website link together + are in my friend website going in and out? Sorry if i say anything wrong, but really, i appologise 1st if i did say anything wrong, cos i am not familiar with all this thing and my friend keep asking me about it.
Google has a service called "free google" that allows you to put a custom search box on a site. When people perform a search via that box, it adds a code to show where the search came from. They don't get paid, but it will show in your log that someone came to your site via a custom google search box from a site. That company has a program, it may be that if you install the program there is a search box in it? It is also possible they own more than one site and are using the search box on another site with the same code. If someone does a search which using that program or site, it will add their code to the search which will show up in your logs. It is just a referer code. It isn't anything that your friend should worry about. It just means the visitor came to their site via a custom google search box.