Apr 19 2006

Google AdSense MediaBot is Crawling Sites says Matt Cutts

Google AdSense MediaBot is Crawling Sites says Matt Cutts

Yes, Google is using the AdSense MediaBot to index pages for the Google Big Daddy Index confirms Matt Cutts at PubCon. ShoeMoney has the lowdown on MediaBot and Google’s Big Daddy index:

At the Lunch sponsored by Google today Matt Cutts confirmed the recent rumors about media bot results getting into Big Daddy.

Matt said it is a bandwidth saving feature to have GoogleBot and MediaBot both contributing to big daddy.

Matt also stated that you will gain zero advantage in search listings however if you are serving different content to MediaBot then to Googlebot then you could be in trouble.

Kind of an interesting statement by Matt which leads to the conclusion that running AdSense on a site does not help with that site’s ranking – despite the views of a good number of conspiracy theorists who believe that Google gives top dollar placement to AdSense serving sites.

Secondly, cloaking will get you nowhere real fast.

Written By:

Loren Baker | Search Engine Journal | @lorenbaker

Loren Baker is the Editor in Chief of Search Engine Journal and a Managing Partner at Search & Social. Involved in SEO for more than a decade, Loren launched SEJ in 2003 with the goal to share search marketing information and reporting on happenings in search.

More Posts By Loren Baker

Garrett French

so Loren... gonna be putting any AdSense on UmDum? ;)
Nadir

Yep, I noticed that too, on many sites that we were doing tests on(mostly BH), some had adsense on it: Google was caching these pages quite often and they were indexed, while the ones without adsense were either de-indexed or rarely cached.
AdSense MediaBot Indexing

Over a year ago I put AdSense on a site that was getting limited traffic and only had a couple hundred indexed pages. Being this site was a directory, I should have had thousands of indexed pages. Anyway, I added the code into a global footer and forgot about it.

Then about a week later, when I was going over some SEO data I noticed my indexed pages had jumped to 25,000. All these new indexed pages had that global footer. Of course this led me to believe the AdSense ads had something to do with it.