Cheers everyone, I'm running a blog with Adsense program since april. Ten days ago I've sticked for Google Analyitcs too. In my blog stats there is a section where search keywords driving traffic to my site are listed; it's a few days I have noticed multiple entries where the referrer is google search, with keywords made with the blog domain name + part of the URL to a post article, for example: SEARCH KEYWORDS: ================================= myblogname.com myblogname.com sun-customers-oracle-plans myblogname.com dells-new-inspiron-z-lapto myblogname.com apple’s-ipod-shuffle-now-s myblogname.com support-for-technical-comm myblogname.com logitech-harmony-700-remot myblogname.com apple-premieres-itunes-9 myblogname.com visit-sun-high-performance myblogname.com nokia-maps-3-big-flop 1 myblogname.com sgis-itanium-altix-4700-se myblogname.com intel-labs-helps-advance-f myblogname.com intel-ssds-inside-adaptec- myblogname.com lg-electronics I thought it could be a sort of spammer technique/mechanism and fearing also some reactions from Google, but further investigation in the web server raw logs, showed that the originating IPs are all part of the Google network. example 74.125.75.3 - - [12/Sep/2009:14:03:48 -0500] "GET /ja/tag/sony-ericsson/ HTTP/1.1" 200 31797 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mydomain.com+sony-ericsson" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" Code (markup): Almost half of the daily blog accesses are made by google with this strange referrer technique. Can someone explain?
Could it be an anti black hat technique? Maybe Google is performing random "user like", "masked" accesses to verify content compliance with robot-captured content? Can't see other reasons...
For a few years now Google has been performing searches on sites using the forms users would access to perform a search. On my sites, I find Google seems to search for items the site is closely associated with or already does well in SERPs. For example, if my site has a link to another site called "Site X", or sometimes a link from "Site X", Google will search for Site X and index the results page.
Yeah but it never happened before.... Google is using the first N characters of the URL + the domain to be sure an exact match occurs. There's no reference to googlebot in the logs... Could be a human checking out "black hat" contents or an automated tool that does the same.... Today, for example there's no such thing.....