I can't understand why the hack users don't click those damn ads .. I would have expected to have at least 500 clicks or so.. Shit Do i need to have millions of impressions to get a fair payment?
where do you get your traffic if its boughten traffic the results may be less. if its organic traffic try to re position your ads.
haha placement dude i hav the same probs for a month, it just drop like hell, i didn't do any change, normally 100 clicks above but it drops to 40 i experiment with placement for few days before get it up again
Get the garbage traffic that comes from Social Media sites, and the only "clicks" you're going to get are from Google themselves when they smartprice your account. Get properly targeted traffic from search engines, on the other hand, and you'll get plenty of clicks provided people are coming for the right reason and you have optimized your site design, ad placement and content. AdSense is not simple, to have success with it requires you to get almost everything right - and most people get nothing right at all. In a lot of cases, AdSense earnings potential is decided before you even buy your domain name.
two point's i will talk about in your case 1 - Garbage Traffic, they have no interest in your website and you will find the bounce rate is very high, that's mean they don't spend more than 10 sec in your website 2 - Bad ads places, i can tell you from your CTR that your ads places in your website is terrible, you should put the ads in the front of the visitors not in footer etc
Obviously you had rubbish traffic, its a little wierd you have 11,000 page views, by now you would have optimized your ads already, obviously its junk traffic or bought traffic. Which is generally TERRIBLE!
Where were these visitors coming from, do you have an Analytics account you can check out? I have gotten 6k traffic from Digg before from one of my articles hitting the front page, and I only got 5 or 6 clicks from it... terrible CTR, but it was to be expected with that type of traffic.
Are you joking? 11k impressions and 50 clicks is not bad at all - and you're acting like the world is going under. I'm not saying it's good, but not rarely low CTR. How many are unique visitors? Lets say 10%? That is a CTR of approximately 0.50% which is just about normal, notice, I'm just counting the unique visitors now. Get used to it, you need a lot of traffic to make a decent amount from Adsense, but then again, there is no limit for how much traffic one can get either. To improve: Get more traffic from search engines - work more on SEO Relocate your ads every now and then in case you have a low bounce rate - that means your visitors are returning to your sites and will be familiar with the ads. Try new positions, colors - give each setup one week to get an overview of how it is going.
Absolutly right, Unique Visitors + Organica Traffic + Good Placement always works like magic and yes a good design (fast loading + easy on eyes)
this would be the case of ! where the traffic the comes, is it from search engine? or referring sites. both have different methods of earning ratio! what i experiences so for? anothe factor of bounce rate.. might be too high ! check it in Google analytic
Your CTR is about half of one percent. This isn't good. Bad placement and/or bad traffic. You really don't want your CTR to drop below 1%. A good properly optimized website with good targeted traffic should be getting a CTR between 3% and 5%. Work on getting your CTR up and you may find your CPC increasing also. With 11k impressions you should have at least 100 clicks, and preferably 300 clicks. In my web experiment (in sig), my brand new sites (#007 & #008) are getting around 4%. But I'm getting less than 50 visitors per week. If I were getting 11k, I would be bringing in about $100 per week. Good luck...
I had the same issue (before our revamp) so I changed the location and ever since been getting a cheque for $400 ever since which is enough.
Are you targeting high paying keyword, if not you've got a lot to get done. Analyse your traffic and trim those crappy visitors. While increase the amount of quality traffic you got, you got the data from your web analytics software don't you? I don't know about your ad placement but you might want to experiment with it as well, of course after you work on the quality of your traffic.
plus i think now a days in technical things people are aware of google ads....for eg if you run a website on programming tutorials etc...these programmers,webmasters well know about the ads and people have tendency not liking ads... just my personal experience with some of my sites...
The statement below is wrong, 11,000 and 50 clicks is terrible, I would be expecting at least 200 from that!
it's 200 clicks i was expecting too.. All my traffic comes from Google and Google Images.. I guess they don't stay too much on my site... but at least they could click a link. For example, there are moments when ads are not shown, they are still counted in Google Report Stats? may be this a problem? count impressions but not show the ad? I should try to change the placement For example that's the stats for yesterday : 12k impressions and only 27 clicks.. great
The ad placement also effect the CTR, If your ads are appearing in highly visible area then CTR must be high.