Hi all, Ive got a super low CTR on my blog site, its always been like that and im struggling to wonder why. Of the 39,700 page views in the last 30 days I have had 23 clicks with a CTR of 0.06%. I know some traffic (about 10k) visitors has been traffic that wouldnt click the ads (paid traffic) so not an issue there, but even then, my regular (non paid traffic) monthly visitors are about 30k page views/mo and still a very low CTR. The ad placement is pretty good, though relevancy is very low even though my page is filled with keywords and uses things like the whydowork adsense plugin for wordpress. Ive tried different templates, layouts, ad sizes, placements etc. All result int he same. Any pointers or tips? Its rather depressing getting so many visitors but only about £3 a month. TIA
That's a ridiculously low ctr. Even if the relevance of the ads is bad, 0.06 is too low for even accidental clicks. It's either terrible placement or your ads aren't displaying properly. Would be happy to take a look if you pm'd me the site.
of course don't give us any url or anything else, so we can look in our crystal balls and answer you.. simply optimize your ad placement..
One of my sites has a ctr of about 0.06% as well. I just ignore it. Its a forum, it pays its own hosting bills, nothing is going to make it higher. And every now and again I actually get a good ad and I get a flurry of $5 clicks that makes up for weeks of no clicks at all.
Even with shockingly bad ad placement you should have a better CTR than that! It must be down to your traffic... really bad quality traffic. Get targetted traffic and you might have a better CTR