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If I ran a company and heard that many of my business partners were frequently left high and dry like this without even a courtesy message then heads would roll.
How hard would it have been to put a message on the login page last night saying: "Reporting will be delayed until xx/xx/xx due to routine maintenance. All clicks will be recorded during this time and your account correctly credited. We apologise for any inconvenience."
If Google is gonna survive in the big bad post-IPO world then they need to get their public relations working better.
So, my first thought this morning was "OH NO!" I quickly checked yesterdays stats, my current logs and found the only thing to be lacking is Google's reporting. Kinda like a step back in time to a month or so ago, when updates wouldn't finalize until the middle of the next morning.
I know that Google's attention is turned to other things today (looks like there's some rapid crawls going on to update their serps).
I don't normally get too excited about these things, but Google recently hit me with a penalty on another site, so that's the first thing that popped into my mind.
Our stats (Europe) haven't been updated in 24 hours or so which is quite annoying. They seem to be stuck halfway yesterday.
Updating once per day is fine, but what about informung customers about such a change?
Not sure what part of Europe you are in, but my stats are updated fine!
Noel (location Netherlands)
I can't help wondering:
Did G do something to change the serps?
Or was this just a crappy day?
Or did AS change the ads being served to lower-paying ones?
Or all of the above?
BTW today ain't looking any better?
Any ideas guys?
1. Delay in reporting, and
2. Less traffic across the board.
I don't know about the cause of the delay (I can't speak for Google) but, I know who causes the loss of traffic, and her name is Jeanne. Hurricane Jeanne. Every time there's a major storm (Hurricanes Charlie, Frances, Ivan and now Jeanne) web traffic goes straight down. People are glued to their TV's, plus 9 million people in Florida are doing ANYTHING but clicking adsense ads. Test it. Go back and look at your web logs and see if I'm not right.
I don't know about the cause of the delay (I can't speak for Google) but, I know who causes the loss of traffic, and her name is Jeanne. Hurricane Jeanne. Every time there's a major storm (Hurricanes Charlie, Frances, Ivan and now Jeanne) web traffic goes straight down. People are glued to their TV's, plus 9 million people in Florida are doing ANYTHING but clicking adsense ads. Test it. Go back and look at your web logs and see if I'm not right.
This certainly holds true for a certain demographic, but many many sites will be completely unaffected, due to their own demographic...
My stats are finally starting to catch up, and it looks as if yesterday was a record earnings day for all of my sites. I can't complain about that, but still have a problem with being left in the dark.
It seems like most of the time they run a few hours behind, but they can and have run as much as 48 hours behind at times, sometimes for several days in a row.
And as this thread shows, not everyone is affected the same way.
Annoying? Yes, but that seems to be the way it works.