What is your CTR

curious to know

[foodconsumer]

My CTR for last month is strictly 1.00000%
What is yours? I'd like to know what is highest CTR publishers can get

[alika]

some of my channels get double digit. some get zero.

[foodconsumer]

wow, i can not imagine double digits.

[europeforvisitors]

A word of warning: Your contract with Google forbids sharing your AdSense statistics.

[dvduval]

I think much depends on the placement of the ads on the pages and will vary widely. Other factors involved would include the ratio of unique visitors to total visitors, and whether the content is more informational or about products.

[asinah]

the good things is with channels you can know exactly what channels work and which one don't.

The only thing that didn't worked well was our forums but this month is a record month for us for all our other content.

[ogletree]

Double digit is not uncommon for a site that gets lots of organic traffic and the ads are relavant to the site. Also it is good to make sure you don't give too much information. If they get what they want from your site then they will not go to somebody elses site. There is a big difference between a site that has adsense on it and a site that was designed solely to get adsense money. I know the latter is against their TOS. We all know those sites are out there.

[foodconsumer]

europeforvisitors

are you working for google?

[europeforvisitors]

foodconsumer:

No, I don't work for Google. But I have read the AdSense TOS. :-)

[Dpeper]

read the AdSense TOS

If only everyone did the world would be perfect...

[europeforvisitors]

If only everyone did the world would be perfect...

And we'd see a lot fewer posts that read: "I clicked on some of my ads for testing purposes, and now I've been banned." :-)

[Macro]

europeforvisitors
are you working for google?

EFV is too polite to say it but... that's a silly, juvenile type of question. As was the original post.

It appears that the polite pointer towards the Adsense TOS was a waste of time, it's not that you don't know what the TOS are, it's that you are determined to break them anyway.

[fezziwig]

Google's TOS is there to spread FUD.

[ogletree]

Very few people read a sites TOS. If we get a poster that just joined up he may not know that it is against the rules. I would have never known that had I not been reading here and read posts like that.

[Macro]

ogletree, that's why EFV very charitably explained the confidentiality part of the TOS. When you were new - if someone gave you a useful tip like that - I suspect you would have expressed your gratitude and withdrawn the question rather than questioning (?) the motivation behind the kindly advice.

[Jenstar]

Some publishers have legitimate CTRs of over 50%, so when people say there is a wide variety of CTR rates, there really is ;)

[PatrickDeese]

> Google's TOS is there to spread FUD.

I would say that the people from these threads would disagree with you:

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(and that's only from the last 7 days)

[annej]

I've been away for two weeks and here is the exact same topic as when I left. (aaaauuuugggghhhh)

Maybe we need a better way to search old threads so this won't happen so much.

[paybacksa]

or perhaps we need fewer judgemental webmasters posting broad sweeping characterizations aimed at other webmasters.

I am for the black and white declarations (self-clicks are wrong, sharing your stats publically is against the TOS, intersting content is good) but too often people feel it is fine to post accusations about areas that are clearly "grey".

If you "know" when a webmaster has designed her site purely for adsense income you are either god, clairvoyant, or wrong. When it's time to burn people at the stake for how they appear to be, I'll be sure and give you a call to light the match.

[anallawalla]

Yes, some have a 100% CTR when their single visitor in a channel clicks. Along comes another and voila, it plummets to 50%. :( On the Adwords side, I have even seen 200% - two clicks for one visitor. :)

The point is that knowing that others are seeing 1%, 0.25% or 20% is no more useful than asking what is the temperature in their town. It is useful only when you know that they are in exactly your niche and, therefore, the same ads are likely to be displayed.

The reason why the TOS is mentioned is because an identifiable person with an identifiable site could be poached by a rival to AdSense if they revealed their (high) stats. So, if you can identify such people in your niche and their sites, so can Google's rivals.

[foodconsumer]

I am curious about others' CTR because I'd like to know if my performance is good or bad. Without any reference, what can you say? If you do not tell me you get 100 oF in your town, I may complain a lot about 78 oF in my town.

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Yes, some have a 100% CTR when their single visitor in a channel clicks. Along comes another and voila, it plummets to 50%. :( On the Adwords side, I have even seen 200% - two clicks for one visitor. :)
The point is that knowing that others are seeing 1%, 0.25% or 20% is no more useful than asking what is the temperature in their town. It is useful only when you know that they are in exactly your niche and, therefore, the same ads are likely to be displayed.

The reason why the TOS is mentioned is because an identifiable person with an identifiable site could be poached by a rival to AdSense if they revealed their (high) stats. So, if you can identify such people in your niche and their sites, so can Google's rivals.

[Macro]

The reason why the TOS is mentioned is because an identifiable person with an identifiable site could be poached by a rival to AdSense if they revealed their (high) stats

Any guesses you may make with regards the logic behind the TOS are irrelevant. When a publisher agrees to not disclose CTR he is under not just a moral obligation to not disclose it, but a contractual one as well.

If a third party - like you - is curious about CTR ...that does not provide justification for disclosing it. I remember no mention in the TOS that it is OK to disclose it if "foodconsumer" asks, or that it is OK to disclose it under the cloak of annonymity. You have asked members here to disclose CTR. Others have pointed out that it is against the Adsense TOS.

Get over it. It's more productive to work on improving your own earnings than it is to worry about other webmasters' CTR.

[Freedom]

This AdSense forum seriously needs to change to MOD review before posting.