I may have a short attention span, but I find that I have become less interested in following my AdSense stats. I started feeding ads in November I was obsessed with the hour by hour progress. Three months later, I check every day because I track the stats. But, I don't go there first thing and I often do not go back to my AdSense account. How about you?
I monitor it closely right now just to make sure my ads are performing well. once I start generating enough revenue, I probably won't be checking it nearly as often. It's just a temporary thing while we get started.
since i have made some major changes in adsense- layout and formats - in recent 6 weeks, i always watch the stats at lest once daily to see if changes are improvements and if the improvements are permanent or just single days of the week or one times the changes where made gradually and the improvements accordingly up, hence watching the stats a most valuable feedback and enforcement in my decision an dplan in persuing the ongoing changes ( result was an increase of overall CTR from 2.4% in nov/dec 2005 and the months before to 5.0 % current period ) once the optimization is stable and successfully completed, i may verify the stats far less but still a few times a week to learn about annual and seasonal fluctuations of adsense behavior
I lost interest around the time I stopped making real money off it. It's pretty fun watching the payout increase by tens of dollars each hour, and very much not fun when it's only a few cents if anything at all.
You are so wrong, the more you make the more you check. There is nothing like sitting there refreshing that thing and seeing $5-$20 dollars an hour for ... just checking your stats
I'm still checking my stats because I'm doing some changes in my websites or create a new website. I think you should check your stats at least once a week.
It depends how much you earn... I earn few cents a day, and i check my stats about 10 times a day... If i earn hundreds i problably would check the stats twice a day and after a few months i would ignore the stats