I've noticed lately that the Overview view will show one figure, while if you expand the channels and click "view all AdSense for content channels" you'll get a different figure,and the Advanced Reports for today will sometimes show another figure. For example, just a few minutes ago or so, Overview was showing a little over $8.00, the "view all AdSense for content channels" showed $9.40 and the Advanced report showed $11.87. A few minutes later they had all synchronized to $11.87 but sometimes they stay out of agreement for a fairly long period. This all makes me think that stats are coming in from different servers and that these reports are also served from a cluster and the synchronization of these isn't consistent. However - contrary to that thinking - I've never seen a report decrease in value after a reload, and you'd think that would be possible if things work like that. This is all just idle curiousity, of course. It does seem to me that the various reports are more often inconsistent now than they were in the past, but I'm not sure of that. If that is true, it might indicate the report servers struggling under increased load.
i dun think so, the amount of money earn depends on your channels, if you have 2 channels for a same page, then the amount shown is not real. Eg. you have an ad wif the channel 'money'. You also create a url channel 'www.money.com'. Once u earn 1USD, u can see the OVERVIEW report show that u have earned 2USD. Hope this explains why u see different figures in different report.
No, as I said, the reports do sync up eventually, it's just that sometimes they aren't in sync for a brief period of time. It must be that they get their info from different databases. I don't use url channels anyway - too many pages.
How soon after the click does the information get to the reports? Does it get quieter at certain times eg morning or weekend?
I couldn't tell you because I get too much activity. I've run Asrep and tried to correlate to Adsense reports but Google is too clumpy - it's *probably* within fifteen minutes but I can't be sure. Sometimes it is obvious that Adsense is behind. For example, I get 6 or 7 thousand ad impressions per day. I know from my web logs that my traffic is not clumpy; it's very regular and constant. So if at noon Google is only showing 2,000, it is obviously a bit behind. Usually, though, Adsense is showing a real picture - maybe a few minutes behind, but not much. If you keep track of page impressions, it's easy to compare that to what Adsense shows and judge for yourself.
Thanks Tony This is all a bit new to me. With all those clicks, it's nice of you to take time out to help a newbie. You must be rich Gay
By third world country standards, yes. By American standards, far from it. But not from this: Impressions are not clicks. Seven thousand impressions might generate less than a hundred clicks, worth $30 - $50.00. A bit more than coffee money, but no Ferrari from that. As to taking time to help - a lot of people helped me over the years. "Pay it forward", as they say.