Google AdSense Strangeness
 

I recently implemented Google AdSense's "Allowed Sites" feature to ensure that I don't get my AdSense account joe-jobbed by some cum sucker. So a minute ago, I decided to check out the report and see if anyone was trying to fuck me, when I noticed something interesting that has started to pop up on my list of people displaying ads but not allowed to.

http://i20.tinypic.com/2wex8w3.jpg

Now, I do a whois on this and guess who it comes back to?

[root@charlie public_html]# whois 209.85.165.104
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]

OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US

NetRange: 209.85.128.0 - 209.85.255.255
CIDR: 209.85.128.0/17
NetName: GOOGLE
NetHandle: NET-209-85-128-0-1
Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2006-01-13
Updated: 2006-06-01

OrgTechHandle: ZG39-ARIN
OrgTechName: Google Inc.
OrgTechPhone: +1-650-318-0200
OrgTechEmail: [email protected]

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-10-09 19:10
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Gee, now something don't seem right about that. Anyone else see this pop up? I wrote to support, waiting on them to answer me.

It may be that people are pulling your pages in cache in large numbers, and as a result, it appears to be coming from there.

209.85.165.104 = eo-in-f104.google.com

Not sure if it's at all related, but I've had "pr-out-f136.google.com" (209.85.138.136) hitting one of my scripts pretty hard, 82 times in 31 seconds.

That makes sense. Wonder why they don't let those ads count towards my viewing. I guess I should add archive.org, google.com and all of the google IPs to my allowed list to make sure I get any credits for those clicks.

I would suspect that (1) you can't add google to your approved list, and (2) if your click outs get out of line because bots are 100% clicking links, you could find yourself without an account.