A mess up and a mystery
This has me stumped.
About two months ago I was moving a bunch of old sites of mine from one server to another.
In the process I messed up the new DNS settings for one of them. It was a very old made-for-adsense site that I built maybe 4 years ago . Completely crap and full of duplicate content - every one of its 71 indexed pages is identical! (By all common sense it should have disappeared from the search engines years ago, but for some unknown reason it stayed and has been making me a small AdSense income ever since.)
Anyway, I messed up the DNS setting and so the site became 'server not found'. As it made only a few cents a day, I never bothered to get around to fixing it, so to all intents and purposed, it has been dead for two months.
Except that AdSense don't seem to have realised that. Every day they show that the site gets around 30 visitors and credit me with a few cents in AdSense money. Regular as clockwork. it works out to $2-3 dollars a week.
And this from a site that can't be accessed.
Google Analytics show that the site receives zero vistors a day (as it should) so how on Earth is AdSense registering both visitors and clicks?
Can anyone shed any light on this ghost site?
Martin
P.S. No, I'm not going to say what it's URL is. I'm not silly enough to kill a golden goose, even if it is dead and a bit smelly already!
About two months ago I was moving a bunch of old sites of mine from one server to another.
In the process I messed up the new DNS settings for one of them. It was a very old made-for-adsense site that I built maybe 4 years ago . Completely crap and full of duplicate content - every one of its 71 indexed pages is identical! (By all common sense it should have disappeared from the search engines years ago, but for some unknown reason it stayed and has been making me a small AdSense income ever since.)
Anyway, I messed up the DNS setting and so the site became 'server not found'. As it made only a few cents a day, I never bothered to get around to fixing it, so to all intents and purposed, it has been dead for two months.
Except that AdSense don't seem to have realised that. Every day they show that the site gets around 30 visitors and credit me with a few cents in AdSense money. Regular as clockwork. it works out to $2-3 dollars a week.
And this from a site that can't be accessed.
Google Analytics show that the site receives zero vistors a day (as it should) so how on Earth is AdSense registering both visitors and clicks?
Can anyone shed any light on this ghost site?
Martin
P.S. No, I'm not going to say what it's URL is. I'm not silly enough to kill a golden goose, even if it is dead and a bit smelly already!
Do not get between a wombat and a chocolate biscuit; you will regret it dearly!