Thread: Don`t Confuse Googlebot and Google Adsense bot

Googlebot is the web crawler which Google uses to find web pages on the Internet.

The Google AdSense bot is not the same thing, and sometimes webmasters mistake it for Googlebot.

The Google AdSense bot crawls web pages which contain Google AdSense advertisements, in order to determine what advertisements are most relevant for that page.

If your site is visited by the Google AdSense bot that doesn`t necessarily mean it`ll get you into Google's search engine index.

Google`s AdSense FAQ reads-

Adding the Google AdSense ad code or WebSearch code to your site will not queue your pages for crawling by our main index bots. While our bot (Mediapartners-Google/2.1+) does crawl content pages for the purpose of targeting ads, this crawl is not associated with our main index crawl.

Thanks for the heads up.