And then the publisher lowers his price for the add, his budget runs out, smart pricing etc and so many other different variables come into play that, whilst allowing you to know which channel is working best, it really doesn't help you predict earning patterns. Or at least thats what I have seen. I can tweak an ad so i start getting more clicks then i notice that the cpc gets lowered. Rather than constanly battling with it, i check once a week and spend the time building more content and sites. A much more profitable use of time.
Before I found this forum, I was earning so little I checked once a week on Sunday morning. Since coming here, I can't believe what's happening to my account, so I check waaay too often. But now I know I'm not alone in my addiction!
At least 5 times a day. My earnings are low but I hope one day when I check my account I get a surprise
I have the adsense extension for Firefox so I am never far from un update. Like many of you, I am also thrill when there is a change and quickly load up the account when there is a change to see where the 3c click came from
I get daily report via sms So, I need not to check the account often. But sometimes when I have nothing to do, I analyze my webserver logs and check adsense stats.
I applaud all you guys that check once a week - your productivity must be twice that of mine. In fact, I'm so ashamed I'm going to book myself into self imposed rehab. For today on I will check just once a week. Now let me have one last look...
I was checking about 3X a day and then I had a growth spurt. I started checking about 10X per day. Now I'm back to about 5X per day - the growth spurt is not flowing as much. I think i'll probably get bored in a couple of months and not check as much. The site has only been up for about 2 months. I'll keep throwing up quality content.
I'm normally 4 times a day, once when i get up, lunchtime, after dinner and before i go to bed. That's a pretty depressing thought!
I use the 'adsense extension' available for firefox. It updates approx every 20 minutes, so I do not have to login to adsense unless I want to get specific stats. Though my eyes wander to the lower half of my screen several times a day, I find it most interesting to view right when I get online in the AM, and then again as the day comes to a close. I have to sincerely thank you all at DP for the knowledge sharing. My CTR had doubled in the last month, and I couldn't have done it without you!
well myself i have the Revenue Checker,, it is set at like every 30 minutes,, so when I am working on sites it just gives me a little popup in the lower right corner of my desktop,, I started out at every 5 mins so I am getting better,, but since this a fulltime deal for me,, I like to see where I stand... eventually I may be to 3-4 times a day,,, but with the popup it isnt like it takes time to check or distracts me for more than 2 secs from whatever i am working on. I believe I would go crazy only checking it once a week,,,lol
I probably check mine every 30 mins to an hour, and unlike millst2 I love it when for whatever reason I can't view my adsnese for like 3 or 4 days, because that way when I finally get to check it I get the best little surprise of how I have earnt all this money over the days I didn't even look at it - because realistically I always earn within about 20% of my average but for some reason I check every 30 mins just to see how things are going, even when I can tell early on it just going ot be another average day - I still have to check... My psychologist says the first step recovery is admitting you have a problem... or maybe that is my AA meetings...
I check daily. Mainly for the stats reporting. It helps greatly in optimizing given the ever changing world of natural rankings.
I didnt check yesterday as my internet connection was down.. It was the highest till date i feel better.. ( highest according to my standards lol )
Heheh, I think this syndrom is called TOSC ... Totally Obsessive Stat Checking and yea, my name is Gandalph and I'm a TOSCer. The abovementioned Firefox extension is a great way to keep the stat checking moments down to an acceptable level btw.
Checking adsense stats kind of feel like checking your character levelup in RPG games. Maybe that is where I got this habit. - Every 5 minutes when I started but now Im disciplining myself so now only every 10 minutes. LOL -Anthony
the firefox extension is permanently running, + some php scripts to watch out for any very odd occurances. I actually look at the page impression & CTR more than the earnings. Page impressions rising sharply gives you a good indication that some keyword or other is starting to respond to the work you've put in (or a site is starting to escape the sandbox). So long as CTR is about where I'm used to then it means there's nothing going too seriously wrong. My main times for actually going in and looking at channel stats are first thing in the morning and last thing at night.