I woke up a couple of days ago and checked my AdSense stats as a part of my regular morning routine. I was shocked to find out that my earnings for the day so far were less than 10% of what they usually should be.

Was my site down? No.

Were my AdSense ads showing? Yes.

Did AdSense send me an email about my account? No.

Was it just my site? Why were the bloggers I follow not talking about this?

What happened?

As it turned out, it was just a reporting issue on Google’s side. AdSense was still tracking clicks and making me money but was having problems displaying the data in the reports. Whew. It took a while to figure it out and I was relieved when I got the official word through Google’s AdSense blog.

The research I was doing, however, did send me to an interesting new feature that Google has just launched called AdSense Known Issues. According to Google the page gives readers a “list of currently known AdSense issues and possible work-arounds. Please know that we are working as quickly as possible to resolve these issues and appreciate your patience.”

I was pleased to see that my particular issue was known and being worked on:

Reports not being updated with current data. Last Updated May 6, 2008

Issue: Reports are taking longer than usual to generate, and aren’t showing complete data for earnings, clicks, and impressions.Work-Around: None at the moment, but rest assured that this delay in reports won’t affect your earnings or payments.

Updates: Our engineers are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible.