For about a year my CTR was 1.29% on average on one of my blogs. I have a lot of unique content and receive some decent traffic 88% from search engines. I decided last week that instead of having people read my information and scroll down past the ads that I would place one the tower ads in a fixed position into the direct left margin, so that when a person scrolls down to read the blog, the ad will always stay in view. Since then I am averaging 2.35% and as high as 3.25% CTR. Instead of $15-$20 a day I am seeing more like $40 to $70 a day from this one little adjustment. But out of curiosity, I was wondering if 2-3% is even good. I don't know any better.
Well, as far as I know, normal CTR is 1-5 % . Can you please tell me how did you manage to adjust the ad so it always stays in view? If you are on Wordpress (I am for now, so I wonder) is there any plugin for this? Can you please give me more details?
A good CTR theme helps, www.ctrtheme.com. It's all ad relevancy, quality of content, quality of traffic. You'll get tracked on all of this, and Google smart prices you accordingly. 40% CTR isn't unnormal either. I mean think about it, some opt-in squeeze pages get a 40% opt-in rate and people have to manually type out their name and email address with adsense all they have to do is click a link, and search users are naturally accustomed to that anyway. So if you're getting like $50 a day on 3% CTR you could in theory could be leaving $100 a day on the table. People hate ads and placing ads in places that have ad blindness is why people fail at adsense. But they love useful related links
i dont think there is any such thing called normal CTR. it varies from person to person and from site to site. all depends on your traffic source, site layout, niche, and most importantly on ad positioning. i used to get around 35% CTR on a site i used to run couple of years back
I use CTR theme and it gives me around 2-3% CTR, but not always just most of the times! You will see increase in your CTR if you use that theme.. Its a good theme for adsense sites! Go for it. How can you adjust the Ads to make it view throughout the page, can you please share this tip? I got a blog with 1000-1500 words of articles in it and my visitors have to scroll down to read it and then the ads doesn't stay in view! I am having the same problem. Please let me know what can I do about that..
unfortunately, having adsense ad in a floating div stuck at the top is against adsense's tos.. It's easy to know because it has been answered several times from the official source itself, just do a little research if you will, otherwise just enjoy the increased ctr while it lasts.. your call.
I am surprised sometimes that people with 300-500 posts in DP also falters. I mean ok kids make mistakes. Ads or Clicking Ads, may happen if somebody does not know! If I had not find DP before getting into AdSense, even I might have been posting in various forums for my BAN, but when such seniors in DP posts something which in simple and plain english is violation of TOS, I am sorry to say something is wrong here. I mean very few of us contribute in webmasters forum to get that 1% extra traffic. We all know anybody visiting our site from DP will be more of curiosity than anything and no clicks on Ads. Why we spend time here? To learn from each other. When I was a peon I had learnt from others. Not that I am master now, I still learn, but I love sharing what I have learnt. Afterall a community means friends and knowledge also. Dear OP please dont post such things. Many new people may read this and may be itched to follow your method. And AdSense over floating??
You don't have to look very far for this floating div thing, even a few days ago on adsense blog they talked about it and directed to google moderator, here's the specific question/answer: " - Am I allowed to display Adsense in a fixed div on the top or side of a page so that it does not move when the page is scrolled, same as in the Gmail reader?" Ubikwitus - No, doing this would be considered bringing unnatural attention to the ad. In addition, a site may not use symbols such as graphics, arrows, or misleading images that direct attention to the ads. This includes placing Google ads in floating box scripts. AdSense Team "
why don't you use the search? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1973501 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=762831 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=710963 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=106838
<3 PM, when are you due for mod status? Maybe you'll finally clean up this shit hole once and for good.
On sites wherе thе ads arеn't tоo relevant I gеt like 2-3%. On the otherѕ I nоrmаllу gеt аround 10%. I have nеver got mоre than 20% on anу site еvеn whеn uѕіng the sаmе themes thаt оtherѕ claim thеy arе gеttіng more.
I had no idea it was against TOS. Thanks for letting me know. As far as telling others how to do it. I will no longer do that. I don't want to be the cause of another persons fall.
I just went back and reread the TOS. It only mentions placing the code in IFRAMES being against the TOS. Nothing on my site is in Iframes, but I am still going to put everything back as it was, because I don't want to make myself a victim. Just saying. Mine was written in a CSS div. Oh well back to the $20 days I guess!
I know it isn't written in the adsense's tos.. In fact I have wanted to do that several years ago, and by looking at an answer from the official source it has always been attached to the TOS clause about bringing unnatural attention to the ads.. That's not correct I think when you see how many ads they put on google search, but it's their game, their rules.. Too bad.. Also just today I've found another weird thing that they classify in bringing excessive attention to the ads, but don't write it anywhere in their TOS, that's so unfair, like life I guess http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2325236