14% Ctr

One of my fellow webmaster told me that his new website(a week old) had an 14% average ctr. I almost fell of my chair. I found he put some text on his page saying the site provides good links/references about the article. That's really an amazing ctr. Don't you think?

 

well if there was 10 views and 2 clicks, that would be 20% ctr

so maybe its just a quiet site, or his mum does the clicking.

its harder when you get 1000's of impressions to maintain such high ctr

 

Exactly what I was thinking. New website hence no rankings no word of mouth yet etc. Get 7 visits and 1 click and voila.

 

The site has 1000's visitors daily and well positioned on google and yahoo search engines.

 

Care to share the URL?

 

Even CTRs of 40% are possible...lol I've seen that. If you want a sample of a page which generates CTRs in that vicinity (several hundred visitors a day on the pages), let me know.

 

Ok for my page, I wont post the url... but here. Click the first (or second) result:

http://www.google.com/search?source...GLD,GGLD:2004-47,GGLD:en&q=pakistani+clothing

This along with a few others have a *very* high CTR. Not mentioning exact percentage. Let me know, if you think it's fishy.

Thanks

 

That site has nothing useful beside the links. I guess that's why the ctr is so high.

 

but it is according to the Google TOS, right? That's what I'd like to know. Please offer you're feedback. thanks...

Also I would say the high CTR can be attributed to the positioning of the ads also. On pages with real usefull content we've seen CTRs similar to your friend's.

The example I gave was extreme.. three times higher than your buddies.

 

looks fine to me.

 

if you get one click and one impression, your CTR is 100%. for sites with low traffic, high CTR is ver possible.

 

I dont understand how that works, surely its going to be the same with much higher traffic.

eg

1 site gets 50 visitors a day and 5 people click the ads, thats one in ten, the same site gets 500 visitors a day and it not longer gets 1 click per 10 visitors? what gives? why would the click habits be different just because more people are viewing the site.

 

personally i would say it violates googles TOS,
your pages are built around only showing ads, and no other links or content,
fortunately google have far worse sites than yours to deal with first.
i wonder how your site would do if you removed google ads from the pages???? That is the question.....your site is nothing but a runaround, with no current or future content.

 

Did you visit the home page. Click the link in the header which says "Arabic" Home.

The site has a very real purpose (we teach Arabic online).. although that page which was number one in the result for Pakistani clothing I pasted was a landing page so to speak... it was to get people to visit the main clothing index. From there, a list of advertisers were given. (Those advertisers pay us to be listed). Any other opinions on whether... this section of the site violates Googles TOS.

Thanks for the comment, regardless. Appreciated.

 

i can see that..and i looked around, i just feel in the example that you gave of your site ranking for clothing...and turning up at one of the pages expecting to see a selection of clothing (or at least a list of links to different clothes), was misleading to say the least.
you site does have some content on it thats hard to find, and misleading...as you say ....you teach arabic online....ranking no1 for pakistan clothes is something else completely.
You might do well if you actually had your no1 postition linked to a page with clothes on.
my original comment seemed to come across a bit harsh, however i do believe the pages are ONLY there to show google ads on...therfore violating googles TOS

 

The page did actually link to the main clothing index page which gives the user a list of 12 clothing sites. I would say it is border-line and still within the TOS. Talks a bit about Pakistani clothing and why it's good to ware the stuff.. then says visit our main clothing page for a list of websites offering the finest in Pakistani clothing... something to that effect.

 

The site ranks well in google and yahoo and is only a week old? Was it a well established domain name prior to your friend owning it?

 

I don't think the site violates Google's TOS, but as a consumer I would be annoyed. Assuming i'm doing a search for clothing, there is a good bet i'm looking to buy it, not read about clothes. Also, the wording makes it sound like the ads you have there are your recommended stores. The Islamaic Clothing link is not easily seen as a link, it just looks bold and a different color, I wouldn't even think to click on it.

I think this is iffy, but not the end of the world

 

The site has been running for about 10 months before the Adsense ads were added.

 

ah i see, in your original post you said it was a new site of a week. that makes more sense now.

14% is pretty high, but hey, he must be doing something right. I would love to see percentages like that on my site