04-18-2006, 09:45 AM
Quote:AdSense mediapartners bot adding to the Google search index
Since Google AdSense launched, there has been rumors and speculation about the possibility of the AdSense bot (officially known as the "Mediapartners-Google/2.1" and unofficially as the "mediabot") including some of its information into the regular Google search index. After all, it would be a nice perk of using AdSense if it gave a publisher easier access to getting pages into the natural search results...
...on SEO Rockstars this week, Greg Boser (aka WebGuerrilla) mentioned that he had seen mediabot information showing up in the natural search index...
Quote:, I went and checked some established sites. And the date and time on the Google cached version of the page is the identical time that the mediabot visited the site...
There is the possibility that there was an accidental cross over taking place if the AdSense team was keeping cached copies of the pages serving AdSense for quality checking purposes...
full article: http://www.jensense.com/archives/2006/04...diapa.html