Decline in CTR & eCPM, do you notice

Hi everybody,

on 15 November, google restricted the clickable area of ads, claiming that it lowers accidential clicks [ http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/11/accidental-clicks-fade-into-background.html ]

Did you notice any improvement in your earning / CTR & eCPM ?

My CTR / eCPM and earning all goes down together, wondering what should I do to optimize now.

your feedbacks would be appreciated.

Regards,

Najam

 

My Earnings are also decreased.

 

My CTR and eCPM are both about the same as always.

In my opinion this was a good move by Google and this is the way the ads should have been set up from the beginning. Theoretically this will reduce the chances of a site being smartpriced

 

Well, let's see how things are taken care. but at this moment I am affected and my ctr & eCPM dropped to almost 50%.

 

Try to improve the CTR by changing colors and placements. Mine is affected 70% CTR. all time low.

 

I must say, thats an intelligent move by Google.
My CTR or eCPM remains same.

 

It is funny, those on this thread who think it is a good move have not been affected (CTR-wise)... ;-)

I think it is good... but I have been affected... CRT is down 50-70% on some ads. Mostly my 336x280 ads are performing awful. I may switch those to another size.

No need to panic, just time to re-tweak everything...;-)

The show must go on...

 

That explains why my CTR halved overnight on the 12th then

Interestingly my CPM has now recovered to the level before the changes but with far fewer clicks. Swings and roundabouts I guess!

Cheers
BP

 

Hmmm. Perhaps I should hold off on changing my ad formats... give G time to normalize the changes on my site.

 

Mine dropped very low too.

 

Since that change from Google, My eCPM is almost three times better!

 

My earnings have gone up in the last couple of days. I doubt it is from the new ad areas.

 

Mine is down a bit from 7% to 5%, however the RPC is up so it's almost the same

 

If your CTR and eCPM have dropped after this change then you should consider whether or not you have been getting by on accidental clicks up to this point. I would be very curious to see sites where these numbers have dropped just to see if that is the case. My numbers have not dropped at all and are right around the average they have been for awhile.

 

My Earnings are also decreased.

3 clicks today .04 cents each equals .12 cents today!

 

How long do you think that'll take?

 

CTR the same eCPM has gone up.
Need to watch it for a few more days to make any judgment.

 

I have read some cases and found that some of the ad units are still displayed in the way they were used to. means no clickable area restriction, I am going to try different ad unit!.

 

No significant changes on my sites.
I will try an obnoxious ad block for a week, just for the hell of hit.

 

My earnings have lowered in past few days too