The last 3 days my CTR has been unbelievable, first, three days ago it was 33% (on under 100 impressions) then yesterday twenty something % (on less than 100 impressions), and today it is 66% on very few impressions, is it possible the impression stats are lagging because the imnpressions do seem low. Derek
As long as you are not doing any of the clicking yourself or asking friends or family to click, you should be OK. I've seen some weird days with no traffic but crazy CTR (I checked all my access logs and confirmed they were no one who knew me and no click bombs). For sites that have high CTR and low traffic, you should be keeping your logs! If you ever get flagged or in trouble you can refer to the logs and show the users who accessed your sites on those days. Let us know if the high CTR stays up so we can bother you for how you did it
i had 100% CTR today. For about 1 hour, after 1 visitor. Was wondering if Google would notice, and take back the few cents that I earned from it by cancelling my account... I must admit, it was cool though.
I track my Adsense clicks and a surprising number of visitors click on multiple ads. In a thousand visitors there will be a few that click as many as five ads. So you may have your pages optimized and you may be in a niche where people are searching and researching so they'll click more than say a forum.
Don't forget to look over time at the CTR. I suggest doing a Month to date view and see what percentage you have then. If it is still pretty high check the months prior for the same channel. CTR will increase and decrease with the type of traffic your site gets. If you are getting junk traffic--chances are the CTR will go down. If you are getting highly targeted traffic the CTR will go through the roof. You will also see huge surges sometimes when people talk about your website in forums, A website ads your link, advertising and a various other reasons. These are perfectly normal, and sadly only last for a week or two :-(
It's not unusual to get CTRs of over 100% on pages where you have a link unit and a couple of ad units because a single visitor can click on multiple ads. I've had as high as 150% on such pages. Unfortunately, most of the ads were not high revenue-producing ads.
It's hard to say what is average, but anything below 10% means that 1) the ads are not especially relevant to your topic or to the interests of your visitors, or 2) your content is so compelling that your visitors have no reason to click on ads, or 3) your content is not of interest to your visitors, and neither are the ads, or 4) your ad placement is such that your visitors don't notice your ads, or 5) your visitors are primarily return visitors who don't click on ads on every visit.
Hey guys, how can you have so BIG CTR, don't you give us any websites links for us too look and see your tricks!
Low CTR due to very good content and high return visitor use is NOT a bad thing. First, you can gain significant income from CPM if you end up growing traffic. I believe Google will be increasing the revenue there for pages with high PageView:Visit ratio and return users. Second, on my sites with the lowest CTR but the highest return user and PageView:Visit ratios, I have received the most offers from advertisers to sell direct advertising space. I am not prepared to take any direct advertisers yet until I have a very large reader base -- which I have not built to where I want. Third, high CTR from single-visit users could be temporary, especially in fad markets. I'd rather see a consistent revenue over time with a low CTR than spurts of revenue that might end at any moment.
well...I don't want to risk any click attacks but I will tell you that I recently began adding a image banner with 2 images to go right at the top of my page, 460 x 28 or whatever size the banner on adsense is, then right underneath I have a banner ad unit, then my H1 heading under that Derek
No tricks. The high CTR pages are very specific to a particular keyphrase that gets highly relevant Google ads from a large inventory of ads (hence, the reason that many of the ads are not high-revenue). Because the pages are SEO focused on the keyphrase, they get good search engine rankings, which means the visitors to the pages are already predisposed to clicking on the Google ads on the page. Result: high CTR.
One of my highest CTR (and earnings!) pages is a blog post I made months ago about stupid people. Its CTR is WAY above 10%, as the page tends to attract ... well, the very same stupid people I was talking about in the post.
If anything they should give you more money for a better CTR rate. The only exception is in the case of click fraud. Which I do so hate.
i believe i discovered how to get very high CTR but at a cost...the reason is because my navbar in the last 2 days had stopped functioning so the only options for visitors was adsense ad or back button...if i had placed a skyscraper where my navbar was I could've made more. This however hurts your site.
10% would be high for my sites. 6% to 8% is my average and it is pretty consistant. On a rare day I will get a 10% plus but is does not happen often. I think CTR has a lot to do with your content and why people come to your site.