What's a good CTR for Adsense?

My ctr is down about 45% but my revenue is up about 25%. I don't know if this is good or not. The holiday does not help the numbers. I'll know more by the end of the month how the extra unit is helping or hurting.

 

I haven't worked into the content yet, as suggest in other post. But I get .8%

 

H-Man,

I suggest not disclosing your exact numbers, as it is against TOS..

 

I will have to review those again. Whoops. New to the adsense thing, so I would hardly call that number acurate. Lets just say if this was the Olympics and the judges had to throw out the low and the high the number would be different.

 

Right on, just letting you know. I've got a buddy who got his account canned for posting in the SEW forums *(how bright is that; they have google employees in the forums daily..)

 

Now one page can hold 3 ads, with the clever position, it could get a very high CTR, will it be a problem?

 

actually, the more ads you have, the lower your CTR will be.

with two ads your impressions would be doubled, with three it'd be tripled.

(although 'clicks per unique' would go up, and overall revenue would go up)

 

The idea is to hide #2 and #3 and they will only click #1. You lowered the CTR without lowering profits. But you need to learn how to hide Adsense still flowing TOS. There is only 1 way you can do it.

 

you would say? have you seen or do you have anything like that?

if you do, did it raise any redflaq from google? i have not gotten any check from those high CTR clicks yet. i should lower the CTR by placing more units now.

 

I've heard of things like this, yes.

 

excuse my english. is your YES for redflag or 15% CTR?
i am sorry to put so many questions into one reply thus a simple yes or no does not really let me know which question you are answered.

 

It was for the question posed to me, the 15% CTR. However, after reading your post, why would you want to lower the CTR % unless you were defrauding google with a site that has a low # of visitors?

 

the CTR isn't the red flag (I'm guessing). where the clicks are coming from would be, though.

 

Because of the huge number of publishers, one way google determine fraud traffic is by monitoring our CTR. if the CTR of a website is too high it may be suspected for fraud (still a suspect), but ofcoz it is still subject for investigation.

 

Actually CTR is based on page impressions not on AD impressions. So 2 Ads in one page is equivalent to one impression

 

Yap I already tried it. This concern was also discussed at webmasterworld

 

i agree. after redesign of the code, my CTR increased by 5 to 10 times. my original CTR was already about average. i only tested the new design for less than 2 weeks. so far, everyday's CTR stayed very high, so i guess it is not a one time thing. overall, the impression is increasing but CTR is dropping. i guess it is because the same person came back to visit but they are used to the adsense and not clicking them any more.

i need to reuse those same visitors, so i really should make the page more dynamic. a static html page may only get 1 or 2 clicks per visitor.

 

how did you try it? comparing web log files with status? after giving #2 and #3 ads, my CTR dropped to about 1/3 of my normal rate. however, i have not compared the web logs yet, as there is a 3 hour difference between day-cut time. google use PST. my hosting uses EST, so it is kind of difficult to count the log files.

can you please point out the finding on webmasterworld? i see report on webmasterworld about adding second ad drops 3% to 1.4% etc.

 

let me ask a newbie question. Does your rate of payment become higher on a page which has more page impressions??? Example, would my Homepage get bigger $$ then and inside page with less total traffic?