Something Wrong With Adsense?
February 14, 2009 by Jason
If you serve Adsense ads on your blog, you may have been surprised today to see your stats much lower than normal. It appears ad reporting was frozen sometime this morning, and reporting for both impressions and earnings have yet to be updated. This has happened before, and with all previous occurrences stats and earnings were still being recorded behind the scenes, though they were not being reported in Adsense’s reporting area. I trust that will be the case today.
As of 10:00pm EST it appears the stats are slowly beginning to catch up as my own impressions and earnings are picking up. I use both Sitemeter and Google Analytics to monitor traffic, and it appears whatever problem Google is having is affecting both Adsense and Analytics as both tracking services are off according to Sitemeter.
This does provide a good opportunity to share with you a couple places to get updates regarding the Adsense service. When I suspect there is a problem, I immediately check out Adsense Help Forum. A quick view of the recent activity (bottom half of the screen) should reveal whether or not there is a global problem, or what you are experiencing is an isolated incident. I rest a little easier if I see others reporting the same problem (as is the case with this latest issue).
Another place to check is Twitter. Chances are someone you are following is chatting about the problem, and you can follow their discussion to learn more. Tonight, I checked Twitter and saw Jenstar was already chasing down an explanation.
I suspect your stats will be updated tonight, or early in the morning for us East Coast bloggers. Check back in tomorrow to see if things look normal.
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Hmm .. have served some 5k impressions now.. shows .5k in adsense but good revenue O_0 let’s see if they plan to pay higher $$$ to publisher
It doesn’t matter to me so much about freezing. I just wish I would make a dime or two. Sigh. You have to crawl before you make a dime on Adsense I guess.