I’ve been looking through my server logs and this has caught my attention. The site in question just had AdSense placed onto it but no links have been pointed at it. (The site is not new, it existed for some time, then AdSense ads have been placed onto it)
What I saw in the logs is Mediapartners-Google crawling the site some time after the ads were placed (about an hour or so) – and then right after it, 14 minutes later, Googlebot coming over. Googlebot just asked for the home page – but that’s till interesting. Another thing worth noting is they both came from the same IP – 66.249.67.104.
Looks like this is all AdCents is good for nowadays, however. As a side note, I’ve had a quick look at referral products at AdSense (I DEFINITELY have no intention promoting these – I’d rather find an affiliate program in the niche that interests me) – and the funniest part of it was Google taking its geotargeting way too far. Namely, it assumes you will be targeting only the local users with your websites and you need a few extra clicks to change it. Dohh! Hello Google, ever heard of websites being just slightly different from traditional offline brick-and-mortar shops or whatever? I get visitors to my sites from places I have never even been to – moreover, sometimes I even build sites SPECIFICALLY to target the audience in such places! How much dumber can AdSense get?
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