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This has coincided with a recent flurry of people being kicked out for "invalid clicks", not to mention several reports of $0.00 clicks, which I don't recall hearing about until recently. I speculated in another thread about the delay being due to increased integrity/fraud checks. In retrospect I think this might be worthy of a thread in itself.
I'm not a fan of "This happened to me so it must have happened to everyone everywhere"-type threads, but it does seem like others have noticed changes as well. Well is it my imagination or is this a real change?
Is creating relationships steeped in fear and paranoia, evil?
People who are fearful or paranoid because of slow reporting have only their own insecurities to blame.
I noticed the consistent stats lag started for me around the same time as 'black thursday' (april). I figured it was to slow down all the constant stats checking.
Addendum: I should mention that I'm probably more forgiving of slow reporting than many Webmasters are because I've written for book publishers. If you think waiting a few hours for AdSense stats is bad, try waiting six months for a royalty statement...and a couple of months after that to get a check. :-)
I noticed several posters that were suspended just joined WW and those webmaster I don't take that
serious.
We have a 4 digit number of clicks per day and I stopped worrying and concentrate on my work only and check the stats every 4-6 hours.
Always make sure you have alternative income as you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket.
I've also become zen-like about the stats delays .. I'd rather have Adsense act recalcitrant over 24 hours .. but reward me well within this time .. and checks sent regularly and reasonably reliably .. than as E4V said .. wait and wait for cash from more traditional business traditions.
Those of you have never run a widget manufacturing business for wholesale markets .. have no idea how good we still have it with online marketing in general.
My koan for the day .. "if 1000 webmasters checked stats and no stats were found .. could you hear them scream?"
the report usually starts to catch up in the evening. By the time I go to bed (usually somewhere between 10 and midnight Google Daylight Time), the reported figure is usually within 10-20% of what ends up being the total for the day.
This is the way stats have been for me also. It's gotten to the point that I don't even bother checking untill the next morning.
you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket
But Adsense is such a nice basket...
I've now had no updates since Tuesday.
Wierd, hopefully they aren't starting to make a standard of 2 day delays like the channel data. Yikes
Are you the same?
I wonder if this affects bigger sites with more traffic more? We get quite a bit of traffic - clicks are in 4 figures per day - what about other people?
