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What does everyone think?
You see two lines for each month:
One is for the day your payment is sent for the previous month's earnings, shown with a ($) around the figure.
The second is for the total earnings for that month, showing with the date of the last day of the month.
You can click on each for further details.
The thing that caught my eye the most is the "Payment Type: Check" when you click the payment details. Might just be a sign of future payment options to come ;)
Now I have to copy and paste everything into excell. Not to mention all the clicking around.
I understand their secrecy about earnings cut etc. BUT, making it difficult for me to have a general overview about my earnings?
This sucks!
What does everyone think?
Initially, thumbs down. But like most things, I suppose in a month I'll be used to it and wonder why it was ever done the old way. But for now, definitely a thumbs down.
My payment was marked approved earlier in the old screen
in the new screen I just don't see it?
I used to glance at the screen and see all I needed to see for the current quarter. Now I glance at the screen and get annoyed, and have to decide where to click, and then after clicking return from click with no placeholder, etc etc. A huge step backwards IMO.
Very odd "improvement" indeed.
If they showed the total of un-paid money I'd be very pleased.
For some people (like me) earnings spread over several months before accumulating a $100. I always have to manually calculate for the past 2-3 month.
Took a second to adjust - the checkregister format is actually kinda nice, just dont see the need to click to see the check number and date, that's a bit of overkill.
I had to look at it for a few minutes to try and figure it out, I actually thought there has been some kind of a server error because having the links in the middle of the screen just doesn't feel right.
Also, I can't see the summed total for the specified months... I'd have to sum them manually?
I'd LOVE to from Jakob Neilson on this one!
My payment was marked approved earlier in the old screenin the new screen I just don't see it?
I think we can deduce that you won't be able to see it until a check number is available such that they can generate that new payment page. So we might not see anymore "Payment Approved" notices - boooo!
Now I have to copy and paste everything into excell
but perhaps their .csv (or .cvs?) file thing will be of use instead?
I tried it, but Google is now WYSIWYG. You get the same information as on the screen, only in CSV format. There is no easy way to see all the figures for more than one month simultaneously.
As some others have mentioned, I don't like having to click backwards and forwards to access information which was formerly available at-a-glance.
Since a lot of people who use adsense are web designers who know something about web usability (and in some cases even bookeeping) why doesn't AdSense ask publishers for suggestions of how they would like their stats displayed?
How many times a month do people look at that page. The page only gets updated twice.
In truth, don't you just grab the total and stick it in a spread sheet then refer to your spread sheet for analysis?
Google has never been good at design. They should hire someone who is an expert at both design and user interface. They are still so 1999 in this respect.
That's probably a major reason for their success. They've got a simple, clean search page and simple, clean results. It's the "KI$$" approach.
Dec 31, 2004 Earnings...
Jan 31, 2005 Earnings...
Feb 22, 2005 Payment...
on feb it adds all the others up
and in jan it has over 100 and i havent gotten my check yet for jan
I wonder what they will "upgrade" next.
and in jan it has over 100 and i havent gotten my check yet for jan
They have told me that they want to roll out a direct deposit system in the next few months.
I liked the old screen better, alot better. Easier to read and historical of all payment events. Now you have to go digging with several mouse clicks.
I also notice you can't compare check issue dates very easily with this system which is probably the main reason why they did it - so people stop complaining.
At least put in alternate line colors so your eyes can focus on all that data.
They aren't even trying...
Google has never been good at design. They should hire someone who is an expert at both design and user interface. They are still so 1999 in this respect.
If I am no mistaken Jakob Neilson is working with them in some way, and I'm sure if he is that something like this run get run by him. That's why I mentioned above that I like to hear from him.
I agree that their interfaces are absolutely rediculous. For a major internet advertising company, both AdSense and AdWords have an appauling interface. If they didn't have the traffic, nobody would use these. Yes, they are "simple" and that is a good thing, but there are several big, long-term issues which are still outstanding and should be addressed.
Can anyone confirm or deny the Jakob neilson thing?
Google has never been good at design. They should hire someone who is an expert at both design and user interface. They are still so 1999 in this respect.
IMO Google is very good at design. Others put options in the user interface that they think you need. Google leaves out everything they think you won't need. Many newspapers didn't change their layout much the last century.
But despite of Google's different approach the functionality is the same. You can still see how much you earned, on which channel and on which day. You can see when your payment was approved, the check number and date.
And most important: The day of approval is very close to the day they send the check. So what you see is what you get with Google. I don't like affiliate programs where you have much more detail in the reports but have to wait sometimes three months before they pay you. What is the plus of a better payment report if you can't spend the money?
