Google quietly announced on Google+ that they’ve updated how the Google AdWords reporting shows the Quality Score for your keywords.

Google made it clear that this does not and will not directly impact your ads, their rankings or CPCs. This is just a reporting change on the front end and doesn’t impact the ranking algorithm of your AdWords ads.

Google said the most visible change advertisers may see is that new ads with no impressions will default to a quality score of 6 and then once Google has data, the score will be updated in “about a day or so later.”

Here is the Google post:

So if you see changes in your quality score, you should be safe and not have to worry.

Forum discussion at Google+.