Impressions and clicks

Discussion in 'Reporting & Stats' started by Codythebest, Dec 17, 2006.

  1. #1
    I have a website with adsense since 3 months.
    Since the beginning, my impressions are increasing normaly but my clicks are decreasing at the same rate.
    The first month showed 20-30 impressions/day with 10-15 clicks
    Now, 200-300 impressions/day and 2-3 clicks:(
    Any idea why?
     
    Codythebest, Dec 17, 2006 IP
  2. anurag_online

    anurag_online Well-Known Member

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    Give the url so that we can chk and tell the reason
     
    anurag_online, Dec 17, 2006 IP
  3. kh7

    kh7 Peon

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    with 200-300 visitors a day any statistics are unreliable, as one or two clicks will make a major difference in CTR for that day. First get your visitor-numbers up to at least a 1000 a day.
    Then see whether the problem is still there - then get back to us.
     
    kh7, Dec 18, 2006 IP
  4. Codythebest

    Codythebest Notable Member

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    It may take several months to get to the 1000 though...:eek:
     
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    thedark Well-Known Member

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    #5
    just concentrate on getting traffic and backlinks. when you will have an estabilished website try to improve adsense. as kh7 said, the CTR is not too important with 200-300 views/day
     
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    Perhaps your visitors are returning visitors, who are getting used to seeing the ads, and are less inclinded to click them.
     
    Pietercornelis, Dec 18, 2006 IP
  7. kh7

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    Yes. Use that time to increase content on your site, finding out what would be useful to visitors to your site.
    Think about this from a business perspective. If CTR doubles now, would that make a reasonable difference to your pocketbook at the end of the month? Didn't think so.
    So don't focus on that yet. Focus on good quality content, some linkbait to get links going, social linksites like stumbleupon and delicio - that sort of thing.
     
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    Oh - and find out what the competition is doing. From that learn what basic topics you should cover on your site - and learn what basic or advanced topics AREN't being covered yet. Focus on those as well. Build a comprehensive site that is just plain good. Links will follow as well as return visitors. Be active in forums when your site is starting to look like something. Being active in forums (on your topic) will also give you ideas on where to expand to.
     
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    Its probably the problem of the quality of traiffic, the valuable visiotors may went away because u cant hold them, and the other visitors just came and leave with backspace. That's about it. I guess
     
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  10. Codythebest

    Codythebest Notable Member

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    OK guys, thanks for your help.
    A last question though.
    Are page impressions uniques visitors?
    Except maybe few visitors coming back the same day, so, can I say 100 impressions is around 90-95 unique visitors?
     
    Codythebest, Dec 18, 2006 IP
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    changing your placement may help you to increase your ctr
     
    trichnosis, Dec 18, 2006 IP
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    Page Impressions are not Unique visitors, its the Impression of ad made by a visitor, it may be one for all impressions , it may be unique everytime

    You could try Google Analytics to track your unique and regular(returning) visitors+page impressions, thats a better tool to check these stats.
     
    mani, Dec 19, 2006 IP
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    No page impressions more thans unique visitor because some visitors visit 2 and more pages so you page impressions increase with this.
     
    master06, Dec 20, 2006 IP
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    An impression will be logged everytime a visotr visits a page, so if one vists several pages you will have several impressions.
     
    qwestcommunications, Dec 20, 2006 IP