What is a good average CTR percentage?

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by Skunkard, Oct 24, 2008.

  1. #1
    I've had a look, and at the moment my CTR average is painfully low, at around 0.65% which is a ratio of roughly 100k impressions to 650 clicks.

    Is this very bad? What are your averages, and how do you keep your average percentage up?
     
    Skunkard, Oct 24, 2008 IP
  2. kumarg

    kumarg Active Member

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    my average is between 4 to 5 always. You have to keep ads to attract you visitors into clicks.
     
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  3. Skunkard

    Skunkard Well-Known Member

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    So my average CTR is very poor then... what do you think I should be aiming for?
     
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    angilina Notable Member

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    CTR depends on the type of site you have. For example, for forums, the CTR will be low. Anyway, any CTR greator than 2% is ok.
     
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    Most people will have a ctr of 2-5%. Mine is lower than that, but almost all of my traffic is in a forum.
     
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    ctr 5-15 % is good
     
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    Mine is between 5 and 10%.
     
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    #8
    That is a terrible CTR. Unless you can have most of the pages on your site get at least 10% you'll never make money --- unless you get very, very, high traffic. The problem is that your ads are not interesting to your visitors. Either the ads are not relevant, not in a good position on your pages, or your site in so uninteresting to your visitors that they leave the site before they have a chance to consider clicking on ads.
     
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    mines always about 10%..
     
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    My ctr always 10% - 15% :)
     
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  11. Skunkard

    Skunkard Well-Known Member

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    I must be doing something very wrong then...
     
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    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    depends what kind of site you have.

    I'm around 5-10% on average
     
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    5-10% here as well.
     
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    5% is decent. Mine's like 3%.
     
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    3%,I think
     
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    i think yours is far better than mine

    mine is just 0.10% :(

    and today i had 8k impressions on one of my sites but no clicks :eek:

    on average i had 400 clicks in 400k impressions so far with just $180 :( for this month
     
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  17. Skunkard

    Skunkard Well-Known Member

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    That's more revenue than me! I dunno what you're complaining about!
     
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    #18
    my sites are highly optimized for a high paying clicks even though they are proxies

    but if you look at the CTR you wont find a CTR worser than mine

    if i even had 1% CTR my earnings would have been crossing $3k/month

    but sometimes i dont even receive a single click for 20-30k page impressions
     
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  19. Skunkard

    Skunkard Well-Known Member

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    Daamn, that is pretty bad I suppose.. I have roughly about 2k impressions a day and I get at least $1 from it each day... on Saturday it was about $17 though :D (before one of my new proxy sites got smart priced haha)
     
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    #20
    lol

    i hope if my CTR or eCPM was as good as of yours :D

    still you are looking for better :p
     
    proxified, Oct 25, 2008 IP