Disappointing result - AdLinks

I got the channel report for new AdLinks

[itisgene]

I put the Adlinks in to one of my web sites after it became available. It was above the fold almost on the left top to get maximum clicks to see if it has content CPC or Search CPC. Well, guess what? I had about 25% CTR TO the Adlinks page (meaning only Adlinks Impressions) and No real CLICKS from the result page! 0% CTR! The web site gets usually two digit CTR for Adsense and that's why I put the Adlinks on the site... If I got the 25% clicks to my Adsense ads...

Another interesting thing is the CTR for other channels on the site didn't decrease that much. That means I wasn't going to get the other clicks anyway. (That makes me feel a little better...)

I should have a few clicks from yesterday's channel reports by tomorrow. I will updaed you with the numbers.

[clearvision]

Is this Friday? It feels like a really good Tuesday morning! Unless the bid amounts have tremendously increased for our keywords, adlinks has really decided to "click" in today.

According to my channels reports the click amounts for the Adlinks channels are double the Adsense blocks. So far they are sporting 2 for 2!

[berto]

I also am starting to see large impression numbers without any clicks. Perhaps we are not using Ad Links correctly? Hopefully someone that has some success with Ad Links will be kind enough to share their secret once some decent data comes in.

And I was starting to see a doubling of impression numbers but without any channel data!

In my rush to implement AdLinks earlier in the week, I goofed and left the channel field empty. Drat! No channel statistics for the first four or five days. :-(

A word of caution to publishers rejecting AdLinks based on early returns: Doublecheck your assumptions. (Remember how the exit polls predicted a Kerry victory?) It's also possible that Google has a few kinks to iron out when reporting this new AdLinks data.

Still, yesterday was a record-high click day for me. It's too soon to tell (and because of my goof, I will know later rather than sooner), but I strongly suspect that AdLinks has everything to do with my click count spiking upward.

[garyr_h]

Day 2 of AdLinks:

CPM way up for a Friday. CTR almost triple of what it was before.

If this wasn't due to another click dump, adlinks seem to be working great for my sites.

[Seige]

I suspect click dumb. Late yesterday night when I logged into my account. The total value earned for the yesterday was much higher than what appeared on the table this morning. The earnings value have been reduced. Could it be Google roll back what has been "invalid" clicks?

Think of this scenario: Your visitors see some interesting keywords on adlinks, and clicked on it. They are brought to a page with several other links. As a person who's interested in those links, naturally they will click on most of them. Now, would this be why there are a higher number of clicks there? Would google be considering them as invalid clicks?

I'm pretty unhappy with the roll back. That's about 15% reduced.

[howiejs]

any other comments on adlinks?

I would like to test this - but looking to learn a bit from everyone

[Jenstar]

I posted some of my findings here:
[webmasterworld.com...]

I wasn't disappointed, so I started a new thread ;)