Ok so I have my website up with adsense and currently it gets around 4k visitors from search engine traffic, however my ctr is terrible at about .15%, I think this is because my pages are basically tutorials and guides so the readers stay to read, do you think that in my situation I should put some CPM ads on? If so which do you recommend thanks!
sites with tutorials and guides are great for adsense conversion. its hard to say why you are getting so low CTR without seeing the site
Maybe it's in your placements You should work hard on that factor. Tutorial websites can generate huge amounts of clicks especially in your case w/ good amount of daily visitors.
Congrats you are getting great traffic. first of all you need to place the properly you can get the idea by seeing my blog . My ctr is 3% so you can get some idea from their. Hope you will do better from now onwards.
Websites that are tutorials or guides need to place ads in such a way that when they finish reading a tutorial they should have something interesting with ads, even though this could drive down your cpm as your ads will be at the end of the page, try it, the best option is since you are having decent traffic, play around with channels and placements, you should hit gold at some point of time, dont panic you can make enough but wait for that sweet spot placement
If you are running a wordpress blog then i would suggest you an adsense optimized theme such as bluesense or prosense.It will surely raise your adsense ctr.
You dont have site link in your post, if you put your site link in your thread, than people will suggest you more realistic.