So I am using the Heatmap theme through which people appear to be getting CTR rates as high as 5 to 10% but I've always had a CTR of less than 1% with every theme I've used including Heatmap. The Variation So I made a new website. After some SEO, it started getting good traffic. For the start, I got CTR above 2% but click prices were less for example 40 clicks gave me only $10. As time passed, the click prices increased ( not sure why probably because I started getting advertisers through Adsense ). Now I'm getting like $2 per click at an average since 2 days but the clicks have come down to about 16 or 17 for 2600 Page views giving me approximately $30 which makes CTR of almost 0.57%. I wanted to know why is there this kind of variation in adsense? Not sure if my site being new is a reason. This is the way I've positioned my adsense ads, http://www.whatiscooke.com I've not yet enabled Section Targeting and also Image Ads are enabled. Any experienced guesses?
can't reach your site, look for a theme called ctrtheme, it's for wordpress, but you can get an idea of the ideal ad placement and do the same on your site.
Glad to see you have read the Google TOS which you signed up for, which specifically obliges you not to talk about your CTR in public,......or get banned. Good job you did not put a direct link to your site from this forum, otherwise anyone from Google who is on this site (Hello G' we know you are there and watching could see your url and ban your site in an instant just for talking about your CTR. Errr....hang on you did post your url...SO TAKE IT DOWN NOW!!! - or risk an adsense ban just for talking about your CTR Do not say you were not warned for taking about your CTR which is a big no-no with Google