I started my (Dutch) site about grandchildren a year ago. The site grew from day to day and currently I have about 180 pages with all original content. Adsense on all pages and regular clickpercentage was about 3%. Currently my (low traffic) site generates about 1800 pageviews per month (rising with 150 pageviews extra pro month) and adsense income is rising very slowly but steadily. My site is a hobby, tracking the increase in ‘income’ I get, in itself a addictive hobby. But now since about a week, I get ZERO clicks for normal pageviews per day. It happened before in the past, for a day or so, but now it’s been a week without clicks but with normal pageviews. I checked my site and all ads are still ok and completely adapted to my content. Commercial ads, nothing abnormal. Checked my pub-ID on the site within the ads, but it’s completely normal, nothing fishy to be found there. I contacted Google, but all I got was an automated reply, saying things I already did (check helpdesktopics, blablabla…) I received no email notification about my account, noticed nothing really awkward in the last months, apart from the fact that the last two weeks I had two days with a CTR going up to 12%. Completely normal before and after. But since april 16th nada… Anyone experienced something similar in the past and is this perhaps an update or something wrong on their side? I tried emailing them, but I got no real useable info back. It’s a little discouraging to say the least. Any thoughts anyone? Thx
NO. Where does this notion of a "high" CTR come from???? It keeps getting spread by newbies. The only bad CTR is one that is too high because the site is receiving fraudulent clicks. High CTR from legitimate clicks is perfectly fine. I have pages with consistent 70%-80% CTR. It's fine, no problem.
thats really wierd. but if you had a day or two before without any clicks, that might explain it. maybe its your visitors and source of traffic that is just not clicking. you can remove and replace the adsense code to see that makes any difference (can't think of anything else better) not really if it is legid clicks.
Yep, I'm a noob wrt this adsense stuff. I'm just expanding my site from month to month with quality information and the ads really adapt well to the content. It just started to really kick in and for the first time I had double digit income, with a new 'record' to be set for April up until the 16th, when well this happened... I'm curious, since my most popular pages havent changed, my pageviews are stable, just the clicks dropped to zero. Hope it'll rekick itself into gear, just like it stopped, but it's hard getting any good feedback from Google itself. Should I resort to putting extra code into the adsense to see if there are actually clicks happening, checking it myself (for the first time) on an 'foreign' PC? Really strange...