If you logged in this evening and discovered you only had about 1/10th of the revenue you were expecting, have no fear. Google AdSense was doing some maintenance today, although their maintenance did run 2-3 hours passed their expected maintenance time.
From the Inside AdSense blog:
This Saturday, August 23rd, our engineers will be performing site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You’ll be unable to log in during these hours, but we’ll continue to track your earnings and serve ads to your pages.
PDT is also known as Googleplex time 🙂
But maintenance ran well past 4:00 PDT however, so the scheduled maintenance turned out to be a bit longer than expected, although Google AdWords customers were informed that their buy ambien downtime would be until 4:00.
And don’t worry, AdSense did specifically state that ads were continuing to run throughout this time, and I checked, they were 🙂
Stats are slowly updating, and they should be showing the true amount late tonight or early tomorrow, usually about the time you begin to show stats for the next day, the previous day’s stats should be complete. You may also notice really skewed data (ie. 100% CTR etc) since sometimes the different metrics can update at different times after an upgrade.
So bottom line, your AdSense bottom line will not be affected by this downtime.
If anything changes, I will post a message on Twitter, so you can follow me @jenstar on Twitter.
I was just wondering if have any feedback on using adwords with glyphius? I have heard mixed reviews and was just wondering if you knew anything about it.
thanks for the info, i had wondered what happened. i too found ads, so it doesnt look like they stopped running during the maintainence.
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Thanks Jen, I was wondering was there some problem with my PC setup and using Chrome. Great post, you should really post more often though ! All the best, Paul
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I had problems with adsence too during the August. But I had a feeling that that maintenance took more than one day (?!)
Read like a great conspiracy until you posted the update about the WebKit engine 🙂
Thought I’d stumbled onto something that would hit the news later.
Ah well, great info anyway, thanks.