My Adsense CTR

[tongwa]

Friday, May 13, 2005 39,110 61 0.2%
Is it High?

[nanotopia]

shafaki, fair enough. And yes, the main point I was trying to make was that I don't think it's a good idea to fear clicking on Google Adsense ads as long as you're interested in the ad content, and it's obviously not on your website. And I think it ultimately hurts everyone. Meaning, you don't get the information you're interested in, the advertiser doesn't get a potential customer, the webmaster doesn't get any money from Google, and Google doesn't get any money either -- All because people are afraid for no good reason to click on it.

One other thing that I haven't mentioned so far in this thread is that it's somewhat two-faced for a publisher to want others to click on their ads, but to not allow them self to click on ads on other publishers' websites. Bottom-line, IMHO, best practice as a publisher is to surf the web as if you weren't a publisher. Click on what you're interested in, and click and surf honorably.

[shafaki]

I think you are trying to encourage us publishers to click on each others ads whenever they interest us, and that would, in your opinion, bring good for publishers as a whole.

I think I'm 'breaking' with convension once again here (first time was when I used your nickname twice in my last post) by quoting my own words above.

Last time I stopped short of saying my two pense on this, but hinted that I differend when I said "in your opinion."

I believe, that yes IF publishers take your advice, it would benefit us all, but statistically, I believe publishers no matter how much they expand in number will always remain an extremely small persentage of actual web surfers no matter what. I therefore believe, if publishers to go out of their way and fight this automatic resistance to ad clicking and in your words "condition" themselves to click on ads of interest, I believe this will bring benefit to all (Publishers, Advertisers, Google), but this benefit will be negligable as the persentage of publishers compared to actual net surfers is and will always be no matter what extremely small.

Anyway, that's my own opinion and again is based on a "hunch" no actual statistics in my hand on that.

[tima89]

Just to show an opposite perspective, i as a (tiny) publisher sometimes click the adsense ads for the reason that webmaster is making some money. I often encounter some small sites that are very useful to me, so by clicking (relevant to me off course) ads i "thank" him for helping me. People if somebody is making money don't think start hating him right away, he is just like most of us here :)

[flobaby]

Just to show an opposite perspective, i as a (tiny) publisher sometimes click the adsense ads for the reason that webmaster is making some money. I often encounter some small sites that are very useful to me, so by clicking (relevant to me off course) ads i "thank" him for helping me.

As an Adwords customer, I seriously hate reading about "mercy clicks". It bugs the crap out of me that I'm paying for someone else's nice website.

And to say the ads which are bogusly clicked are "relevant to me" is totally moot since your aim is to help the webmaster, not to investigate the product as an actual buyer.

[spaceylacie]

No mercy clicks, please.

No matter how well meaning, these clicks only hurt the publisher/Adwords advertiser.

[nanotopia]

Indeed, no mercy clicks (as they're being called here). I finally found something that most of us can agree on in this thread. Honorable clicks only. If you're truly interested in something, click on it. Otherwise, keep moving.

[tima89]

No, my point was that i almost never click the ads (very rarely). But if i encounter a good site, i take some time to look at the ads, which sometimes results in clicking.
So to correct my mistake just replace the word "click" to "pay attention" in my previous post.
I'm not that stupid to click just for the hell of it, its kind of like stealing from someone and giving it to someone else.