There's another (potentially distressing) way a map load might occur. One of my map sites has recently been "attacked" by the "FunWebProducts" bot that so many people have downloaded to their browsers. There were days I was seeing over 100,000 hits on the index of the site, many times the real volume and often the same IP would retrieve the index 400 to 1000 times in a single day. Several IP's were seeing 5,000 hits on the index in a single day. What's distressing about this is the AdSense script was successfully loaded and an ad impression registered but obviously no clicks. This made the CTR extremely low and the cost per click started dropping.
I had to alter the site to include a dummy index page to stop this from happening. If this had happened once the monitoring and charging for map loads started, it could have really hurt. Does a browser based bot like "FunWebProducts" cause a map load to be registered? I would bet it does as "FunWebProducts" is pretty good at getting JavaScript to do its thing. It fooled AdSense and they are a smart bunch of folks over there. -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/JPQaCq_NmM4J. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
