Is 15% CTR Asking for Trouble?

Can One Be Penalized for High CTR?

[k7sounds2]

Can one be penalised for having a high CTR? Mine has been an average 15% for about 4 days, ever since I started using adwords to promote the site. Not bad, and so far covering the cost of the campaign.

[thegreatpretender]

Google loves it as long as there are no fraudulent clicks. I have a site that gets an avg of >20% for more than a year now, there's no problem so far. I just make sure that all my site comply with google adsense tos.

[Scurramunga]

15% is not high so don't worry

[david_uk]

I had a ctr this high, but it was on the back of some MFA's that paid poorly. Dumping MFA's reduced my ctr to a third, but the income has increased.

So if the ads yoiu are seeing are genuine ads for goods / services / bonafide information sites then you will be doing very well. If the sites are MFA's then you might consider blocking them and see if that makes a difference to the bottom line cash figure.

[CainIV]

Not high at all. One niche site I have consistently gets between 20-30% CTR. It all has to do with how relevant the ads are to the user at that page, the search term or link that brought them and how your ads are placed.

[saraah]

from past 2 days my CTR is above 20%.......i just dropped a mail to google to check if everything was fine.

[humblebeginnings]

Indeed, no worries. I got a few pages with 25% ctr for over 6 months now. Such a shame there are so little pageviews:-(

[caran1]

CTR is not a problem, time spent at the advertisers website is.

[hal12b]

Don't worry. Once I had a CTR of 300+%. One visitor clicked on three ads. It happens from time to time. By the end of the day it was back to normal around 10%.

[incrediBILL]

The most trouble I can think of with high CTRs is when my wife finds out and starts planning how the money will be used.

[FrostyMug]

no trouble at all. i have a few pages which consistently convert at more than 50%.

[humblebeginnings]

"The most trouble I can think of with high CTR is when my wife finds out and starts planning how the money will be used."

I tell my wife Adsense is a computer game and the money is not real;-)

[WallyWorld]

Not a problem. I have one page that gets well over 50% clickthrough every day and has for months.

[gulerse]

Wooww! Those are really big numbers, mine is only 0.2%-0.9%, really poor comparing to yours...

[frox]

OH YES, BE VERY WORRIED!

(And give me your web site immediately)

Just kidding, it happens.... enjoy!

[jonathanlewis1973]

it's nice to know it's ok... i've been getting very high (for me) CTRs the last few weeks of 15%-25%... Shame that earnings per click dropped, but the improved traffic (re-listed high in google) and increased ctr have MORE than made up for it...

Congrats on a great forum

[morpheus83]

15 % CTR and I would drool looking at my stats all day.

[Aircut]

yes be worried. the ads are more interesting than your website content....