AdSense System Maintenance Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006 10am PDT

[AdSenseAdvisor]

Hi everyone,

It's that time again... We have another round of routine system maintenance scheduled for Saturday, September 23 from 10:00am - 2:00pm PDT.

As many of you know from past maintenance, you may not be able to access your account during this time. However, your Google ads will continue to display, and all clicks and impressions will be counted as usual.

Thanks for your patience!

-ASA

[ann]

anyone checked out the manage my channels page yet? Visuals on there have changed, other than that I cannot detect any others.

Ann

[Tropical Island]

For a Saturday mine are fine

[JinxBoy]

just as i suspected.. lower than normal earnings.. lol

oh adsense

My stats look normal...

[JinxBoy]

Did we always have 200*200 ads? If so... Why did I never use them? :( ;-)

[ken_b]

>> Did we always have 200*200 ads? <<

Nope, they only showed up a few days ago.

[andrewshim]

earnings up by 200 percent... good update...

[Khensu]

Shoot, Nothing Additional Found Useful

[andrewshim]

oops... I meant earnings up 200 cent. ;)

by the way... checking my stats (not Adsense stats), I noticed that last night my page views went up a massive 500% (REALLY). I wonder if it has anything to do with SNAFU.

Anyone notice the same?

[zoggle]

Visuals on there have changed, other than that I cannot detect any others.
Ann

When you generate your Adsense code, there is now a comment inserted immediately before the channel value, like this:

//2006-09-23: channelname
google_ad_channel ="9999999999";

The date & channelname is inserted as a comment.

[andrewshim]

When you generate your Adsense code, there is now a comment inserted immediately before the channel value, like this:

//2006-09-23: channelname
google_ad_channel ="9999999999";

The date & channelname is inserted as a comment.

yes... i see it.
mebbe this is in response to Ann's experiment a while back?
mebbe Ann did rock Google's Titanic a bit?

[ann]

Or maybe I gave them some new ideas...:( (hitting myself over the head...blam, blam)

Ann

[TheDonster]

Yep, there seems to be something going on with the channel names. I've removed a lot from my site and have seen a positive revenue shift. The date stamp on the ads makes me wonder what's coming next?

[Andreals]

I find this comment useful. This makes experimentation easier because it frees me from the task of recording the coded number and its corresponding channel name.

Doing a global search of all my pages for a particular 10 digit number is relatively easy but when conducting multiple experiments with placement etc., it is easy to become confused.

This feature makes my life easier and less confusing. Whether it is actually worth all the extra bandwidth will never be known...

The date stamp on the ads makes me wonder what's coming next?

Surely their internal channel logs have always been date stamped, the date stamp within the ad code itself must be for the benefit of the publisher.

[edited by: Andreals at 5:17 pm (utc) on Sep. 24, 2006]

[rbacal]

Yep, there seems to be something going on with the channel names.

Just for accuracy, the change existed prior to the Saturday downtime. At least for us.