I just noticed a new AdSense feature where you can save reports. Anyone think this is useful?

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Saved reports can be more than a convenience — they let you build repeatable, auditable workflows for bookkeeping, performance tracking, and early detection of suspicious activity.

For bookkeeping: create a monthly saved report with the last-month date range and columns for impressions, clicks, CTR, CPC, RPM and estimated earnings. Name reports with a consistent pattern (SiteName_Accounting_YYYY-MM) and schedule a CSV or PDF export to an email you control. That replaces manual printing and creates a retained archive for reconciliation and tax records (a point likely useful to ).

For monitoring and fraud detection: save a short, high-frequency report that filters for unusually high CTR or spikes in clicks by URL or ad unit. Schedule it daily and set a simple threshold to trigger manual review. When a spike appears, cross-check with your web analytics for traffic source and IP ranges, temporarily disable the suspect ad unit, and collect the saved-report CSV as evidence if you need to contact AdSense support or file an appeal (relevant for situations like raised).

Practical tips and cautions: use clear names and include the time zone in the title; export CSVs rather than relying only on the UI; keep a 6–12 month archive before purging; avoid automated actions based solely on one metric (false positives happen). Community actions like petitions (as suggested) are unlikely to help individual account problems — documented logs from saved reports plus a calm, policy-focused appeal are more effective.

Note that Google’s UI and export options change over time, so check the current AdSense help for the latest steps to create, schedule, and export saved reports.

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Unfortuneately google deleted my adsense account a few weeks ago, but I think that is a very useful feature!

Sorry to hear that. The almighty invalid clicks excuse?

Yes it was, thats stupid invalid clicks excuse!

yea it may be useful to some but personally i just print a report and file at the end of each month i find this way better.

Gotta love the invalid clicks exscuse :P

Hmm.. Maybe we should get a petition up :P

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