0.97 %....someone please help! 60,921 impressions and only 591 clicks....i must be doing something wrong. If I could get to even 4 % I'd be laughing.
I think you're a bit ill-informed. Many of my sites have over a 10% CTR. Last month, I averaged 15% on my whole network. I assure you none of my sites are purely ads or display low quality content. I value my Adsense account and wouldn't do something stupid to put my account in jeapordy. The secret is driving only the right type of traffic. Forget the digg, stumble upon, entrecard traffic, and build links to get organic traffic. Once the majority of your traffic accounts for organic traffic, you will get a good CTR (considering your ads have decent placement).
You might wanna re-think that. The higher CTR you have, the better it is for your account (considering you're recieving organic traffic). The lower your CTR is, the more likley you'll get smart-priced, something that has evidently happened to the numerous people reporting a CTR of +/- 3%.
Alot of people with niche sites achieve 10% and 20% + CTR. Just because you never saw it (and never will i bet), it doesnt mean its not real. And before calling anyone a liar and naive, grow up and then look into a mirror allright? Otherwise you won't make any friends in here. No friends = No good info = No Big Cash. Got it? Good.
People need "eggs" You provide a site about "eggs" You SEO your site to rank high for keyprases "eggs" related People find you in SERP's People will click your ads about "eggs" Quite simple in fact, and yeah, forget Diggs, etc etc lmao
its about placement. 336*280 or 300*250 works great if they are above the fold as well as they have the same colors as the site and have the same background as site template
Simple....build anchored links. Stop playing around with your site trying to make it look pretty and whatnot. The problem I keep seeing on these forums is that people are trying to constantly tweak their ad placements/colors, alter the look of their site, and tweak the onpage seo when they have no backlinks, and hence no organic traffic. This is a WASTE of time. Build a site, have your KW in the title, in an H1 tag, a few times in teh body and bolded somewhere. Get the 336 adblock in there on the left side of the content, and GO BUILD LINKS. Once done, leave the site the hell alone and go build another one. People don't make money online because they dwell on things. IF you build a good amount of links and have decent on-page optimization, you'll make money.