Last night, In one of my blog, I removed all of my adsense ads and placed only 1 200 x 200 square image ad. I noticed something unusual. In my adsense account I saw 1 pg impression, 1 click but the ctr was 100%. Is this possible? Or is there something wrong? This is funny because, previously, I placed quite a number of other adsense ads but there wasn't such CTR at all. Can someone clarify please. Thank you in advance for your response.
Your blog showed the ad once and it was clicked on. If it showed it 2 times and was clicked on Ctr would be 50%. 100% ctr is possible but only happens every now and then. If your site had hundreds of hits and had 100% Ctr google would look at site to make sure it is not doing something like paying for clicks.
Hello, Yes, it is possible as said qwestcommunications, if you have 1 visit in your site and he click on your ads, the rare sitiation if you have 100 visit...
Thanks rcj. I usually have around 800-1000 hits a day in that blog but the ctr would be like 1%-3%. This is unusually the 1st time I see 100% Ctr.
I got that once as well... When someone was attempting to spam my adsense account, they clicked like 400 times on the ads, and there were only about 30 page impressions! I had some ridiculous CTR, and google banned me, because of someone somewhere trying to wind me up... oh well, their loss!
I believe the intention of the question was 100% CTR with more than 1 impression. I can pretty much guarantee that a normal site with 1000's of hits per day will never get 100% CTR.
Yes, I posted the question because I was having 1 page impression but CTR 100% which is very unusual. Than now, the page impression is 3 but CTR 33.33%. Still confused, but I am going to leave it as it is and see what happens next few days.
With one impression, look at it this way...you will either have a CTR of 0% or 100% so you've got a 50/50 chance, pretty good odds. CTR for low impressions like that is meaningless for any real analysis.
I don't think it's a 50/50 Chance. More like a 80/20 Chance. Anyway: I think if you'd have a ctr 100% at more than 10 page impressions Google would look at your site again and maybe even throw you out because that ctr is to high to have just normal ads. They'd probably think you use some forbidden trick. lionstarr
It's probably not 50/50 but 50/50 is the simple way of looking at it. They get to your page once, they either click an ad or they don't. In the absence of any other data about the site, 50/50 is the best you can do. Now, if we knew how many ad blocks and how many ads in each block, the location of those blocks, and the number of other links on the page, then we could start to get something a little more reasonable.
The reason it was 100% was because there was only one impression, and on that impression you got a click.
I am not sure what is confusing you. 1 click in 1 page view is 1/1 = 100% 1 click in 3 page view is 1/3 = 33.33% 1 click in 5 page view is 1/5 = 20% 2 clicks in 400 page views is 2/400 = .5% It is a simple ratio, based on impressions and clicks. The higher the impressions for the same click number, and the CTR ratio goes down.
this is normal, that show the ctr is calculated. What were you expecting? Anyway as the numbers of impression increase, the ctr will decrease.