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More Hits than Pages Read ??

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:42 pm
by phppage
Strange one this I think, in AWStas I seem to have a number of IP address that I have verified as domestic hitting my site many times but more hits than pages read. I don't understand how this can happen part from my site is advertised on Google Ad Words. I have a feeling but may be wrong that some kind of bot is clicking on my adverts to use up all my money (May be competitors?). I have removed my campaign from the advertisement network to see if this resolves but no joy. Has any one come across or had suspicions that bots may be crawling Google and clicking on their ads? :(

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:49 pm
by califdon
I can't say for sure, but my first guess would be bots from search engines. Unless you're a top-tier commerce site, I'd think it's not very likely that you have competitors trying that hard to sabotage you. But search engines send many bots every day. It's probably in your interests to let them index your site, but you can prevent them if you want to, by placing a robots.txt file in your server root directory. See http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/meta.html

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:30 pm
by phppage
Thanks for your reply. The IP address are domestic ones so not the kind of Bots you would see from search engines, they don't crawl pages just hit the site via an Ad Word advert and go. Most of them don't even read a page. Most of the IPs are from AOL and a couple from NTL I have since read a forum entry on another site with someone having the same problem with Ad Words with the a similar IP range, Its called invalid clicks. Have reported my problem to Google so will see what they say. Any one had similar issues?

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:43 pm
by Christopher
"more hits than pages read" is usual I think. A page with two images results in three "hits".

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:12 am
by phppage
arborint wrote:"more hits than pages read" is usual I think. A page with two images results in three "hits".
Sorry, what I should have said is many hits with no pages read.