A Heads Up About AdWords Downtime

By Doug Caverly - Thu, 04/10/2008 - 5:05pm.

April 12th, May 17th outages planned

Saturdays are great. Even if you hold down a second job, have housework, errands, or whatever, it's nice to get away from the Monday-to-Friday grind. Now, so that your Saturday won't include an unpleasant surprise, an announcement: AdWords accounts will be inaccessible for four hours.

Google AdWords In Working Order

Planned maintenance will keep people from signing in or tinkering with anything between 10 AM to 2 PM PDT on April 12th. But on the Inside AdWords blog, "Blake" promised everyone, "Your campaigns will continue to run as usual."

Blake even gave a heads up about when future downtime should occur. "AdWords system maintenance typically occurs on the second Saturday of each month during the above times - although in May it is planned to occur one week later than usual, on May 17th, due to Mother's Day," he wrote. (And let that serve as a double reminder, lest you forget Mother's Day.)

That's about it, then. Have a nice Saturday, and a good Friday and Sunday, too, while you're at it.