Diary of a Techie

As i suspected, if your run an adword campaign, it will have the effect of having google bot crawl your site and add the statistics almost immediatedly. While adword google bot and google bot are different, they do share the same cache, and so, what one bot visits, the other bot knows!

Here is an excerpt i lifted verbatim from Jensense.com

The AdSense crawler is different from the Google crawler

The two crawlers are separate, but they do share a cache. We do this to avoid both crawlers requesting the same pages, thereby helping publishers conserve their bandwidth. Similarly, the Sitemaps crawler is separate.

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