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Gremlins playing at Google?

Discussion in 'Reporting & Stats' started by johncr, Oct 9, 2004.

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    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.
     
    johncr, Oct 9, 2004 IP
  2. schlottke

    schlottke Peon

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    Google's bots follow impressions where Adsense ads are- not sure if it checks non-adsense pages on the same domain or not though?
     
    schlottke, Oct 9, 2004 IP
  3. johncr

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    Except for the Preview I did yesterday, Google was unaware of my new site.
     
    johncr, Oct 9, 2004 IP
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    schlottke Peon

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    #4
    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.
     
    schlottke, Oct 9, 2004 IP
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    sounds like buggy behaviour to me... nobody's perfect
     
    mxlabs, Oct 9, 2004 IP
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    Infiniterb Well-Known Member

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    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.
     
    Infiniterb, Oct 12, 2004 IP
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    It's so weird that I have saved the html page.
     
    johncr, Oct 12, 2004 IP