How can you achieve over 5% CTR (tricks or tips)?

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1257175

says they can achieve 5%, or even 30-40% consistently, how can I only have .5%. What is the tricks?

 

Having 5 % CTR is not a big deal. Try to change ads placement and test which placment gives more clicks. one day you will find a theme of ads to get best CTR

 

Does changing of placement gives more clicks ?

What is best place to place the adds ?

 

Can i upload my personal template on blogger?

 

Take a look at the heatmap images provided by google & adbrite. They will help.

If your site is low on images, try an image ad in the middle of the right side of the page. Best converting spot I've seen for those.

Lots of content? put an ad at the bottom.

Forums etc? skyscraper on the left side. guests only

And you can also blend. Check this site of mine for a good example. Notice that people will have to look at the ads before actually using the tool. Things like that help! Though it works much better on pages where people won't be wanting to visit another of yours sadly

 

By placing the ads at places where the attention of the visitor is more and blending the ads with contents, you can increase the ctr beyond 5%. But remember, the traffic should be targeted; otherwise the chances of your ads being clicked are remote.

 

A report released earlier this month by comScore Inc. on behalf of Starcom MediaVest Group, a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, and Tacoda, a unit of AOL LLC, stated that click rates on display ads were less than 0.1 percent. By contrast, comScore noted, Google search ads are clicked on 4 percent of the time.

http: //news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=119513

So Googles CTR is 4%? and we can get 30-40%, how? how?

 

it totally depends on your site layout, niche, and visitors. forums get less CTR than blogs or sites. also proxy sites get even lower CTR than anything else. no matter what you do, you cannot get 30-40% CTR for forums or proxy sites. if you have a site with properly optimized ads along with 100% legit organic traffic, then you will get high CTR given that you have a content based site

 

Yes, thats how it works. depend on your niche and the organic traffic what you gets

 

Sorry, i don't want to do a spam
but, you can watch a helpful video about the ads placement on this link :
http://money-press.blogspot.com/2009/02/adsense-strategies-page-placement-and.html

Good Luck for you

 

place your 120x600 ads on the left column near the top. use no border on the ads, make the background and text the same style, color and size as the rest of the page. (make the url at the bottom of the ads blue)

Give the user no other option but to click on an ad or hit the back button. I have gotten 30%-40% CTR for years doing theses things. (40% -50% on Yahoo)

 

It is depend on your ads format/placement and also content.

 

i got 15-20 on a site of mine. All you have to do is play with the ads placement. For example, I have places ads above a search box, very close to it

 

exactly.

all you have to do is experiment with location, ad types, colors, etc.

and see what CTR's you get.

 

ads placement and color blending would be the way to increase your ctr. make sure you have a good page in order to increase your ctr..

 

Mine CTR is always between 2% to 5%... Just always keep changing the template, ad placements, ad title colors etc... try it

 

If it is good content with good ads, you will have over 5%

Place you ads on good places!

 

try new ad color & position