Adsense “Maintenance”: Does It Affect Your Earnings?

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While it may look that was sometimes, the answer is "no"...at least according to Google.

Yesterday, was one of those little windows of opportunity that Google seizes to perform maintenance on its Adsense servers. Many publishers have questioned whether their earnings actually get shaved during this time period. While your earnings might initially look a little lower after these "updates", it turns out there is good reason...

That's a theory I'm happy to debunk: this discrepancy is actually a reporting artifact, occurring because we pause stats tallying during our maintenance period. After resuming, our reporting systems have to digest all of the accumulated impression and click logs, and there's a lot of data! It takes the reporting systems a little while to process the logs, but rest assured that once we get the chance to catch up, the reports will reflect all of the impressions, clicks, and earnings that occurred during the maintenance period. If you're concerned about the stats you're seeing, we recommend checking back throughout the day as your reports are updated.

Sorry conspiracy theorists...not this time.

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