Many adsense publishers got affected of mysterious bug causing publishers not receiving payments in time during January and February months of 2009. Many adsense publishers were complaining that their checks were not received in the official adsense discussion forum citing many many reasons.

It is believed to be the bug causing invisible hold on the accounts which is why publishers were not paid and those affected were only small in numbers. However those effected publishers are only few in numbers.

There has been a official posting in Google forum by Adsense Pro William (Google Employee)

Not Receiving Payments on Time?

Hi,

Off late we have noticed complaints from Publishers about not receiving payments on time in spite of having no visible holds on the account. This was due to a bug which has been fixed and in the mean time we have been removing the holds manually and the publishers would be receiving the payments in the next payment cycle possible. Also, to be noted the holds removed between January 15 and February 15 will be reflected in payments issued at the end of February.

Thanks for your Understanding,
William.

I am glad that Google fixed the problem and those publishers who got affected will get their payments in next payment cycle.

Not long ago a similar bug currency conversion bug hit many publishers showing 1:1 conversion rate.

References:

• Google bug causes some AdSense payments to be held
• AdSense Publishers Not Paid This Month

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