Does that sound like a bad CTR? I have around that unique visitors a day. The income is around $1-3 a day Should I blame it on the technology niche? Low paying and readers are mostly know not to click on ads? Or is my placement bad? Site is on http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs
That's a pretty normal click through rate, I think (2-3% CTR). You might try using google's keyword tool to check the max ppc for the keywords you are targeting and maybe try targeting some higher paying keywords... also, increasing traffic will increase revenue. Lots of posts here on how to go about that. Good luck!
Umm it's 1000 unique visitors I thought placing it under the title is the best place. I tried moving it to the bottom of my post but since most people already got the info their need on the post, the CTR was quite low so I moved it back to top
It's a pretty good CTR. You could try looking at Google's recommendations for ad placement hotspots to try and improve though.
You can situate ads in best places and brake your website design or make ads part of your design. I suppose 2-3% is good rate, but with 1000 impressions you should have at least 2000-2200 impressions, which means that you have less than 1% CTR. This means you either have high traffic from some social network, which is trash traffic, or from google images, which is not giving high revenue.
Google Ads block is invisible at your website. Try to locate it in another place. Personally for me it took a few minutes before I have found it. You can also try to use text links in Google Ads block.
I would recommend you to place Google Ads block in the right side menu - under sponsor. Most likely your earnings will be increased in times.
I also think that the CTR is normal. The real problem is your page content which influence your Google ads. You control your ads type by changing your page content. It is harder to control the high paying ads with blog. After a look at your blog, I suggest that you try to integrate the ads in the text. It seems that it works well for articles websites. Only trying will allow you to fine tune your CTR.
as the best practice is to well blend your ads with content so the ads will be more targeted for your visitors.
Thanks for all of the suggestions guys Worth to try , I'll give it a go and check for the stats I think if I can get about 20 cents-$1 per click then I can be rich soon At the moment I've been getting review units from big vendors, so I'm not really complaining but if only I can get more out of AdSense, then I can use the $$ for something else. So I guess I need to try using the 486x60 Text embedded in the middle of my post content?