Out of interest, is anyone here seeing an odd drop in reported CTR today on their sites? Uncertain whether it’s just me but the CTR I’m getting just today does not bear any relation to what I get usually and there are no changes in the quality of my ads. It’s enough of a difference to stand way out from the normal ranges and also different enough to make me think that the reporting may be a little delayed (at least its enough to make me want to believe reporting is delayed). Very bizarre.
my low day was yesterday the 12th, but my spouse always reminds me that adsense will have up days and down days. It's hard to get through the down days and stay motivated.
Google has changed ad formats to reduce "accidental clicks." You can read about it here: http://www.jensense.com/archives/2007/11/changes_to_adse.html
yeah ive noticed the same damn thing, my ctr dropped significantly on Nov. 15th and has stayed down. I have the same ads, they look the same, just the ctr has dropped. i hope it is something google can fix or is aware of. just read the jensense article above, and the clickable area on my ads has been seriously reduced, i can't believe that i was getting over 250 accidental clicks per day, i think google has just made it harder for "impulse buying" by taking that extra clickable area away.
Yesterday was surprisingly good for me. Today not so good. Everyone's probably sitting on a couch because they are still stuffed with Turkey.