Clickthrough rate

[fernell011]

Hey guys:

just a quick note: is a montly clickthrough of about 16% acceptable?

What do you get? Better than this?

Thanks/regards

[whizkiddo]

better than this!? i dnt even reach double digits by a looong margin

[freedata]

WOW!
How do you manage 16%?
What format do you use?
And whar colors?

[asp4bunnies]

This is a gentle reminder that it's against Google's terms of service to discuss your account data in specific terms... you might want to edit your post.

That being said, I too am far below double digits (heck, even single digits). The amount you posted is amazing. Any tips you have on how you accomplished it would be highly appreciated.

[HellaCooL]

I don't understand why would it be agains TOS if they are not talking about specific website.
So who cares about that stupid rule.

[Bluepixel]

16% is great! I only have 1/4-1/5 of it and I consider myself lucky :-)

[arubicus]

16% of what?

100 visitors?
1000 visitors?
10000 visitors?
100000 visitors?
1000000 visitors?

[ogletree]

Many people get that much. Not many as far as a percentage. The best way to do it is make a site that gets a lot of visitors looking for what is in your ads and your site provides no real information and they have to click. This is best case senerio and one that some publishers provide.

[HellaCooL]

The best way to get good CTR is to rank good for a particular product. For example, if someone is searching for “fossil watches” and you provide only information on these watches and not selling the actual product, after reading thought your site they will probably click on one of the ads.
I have a website on which almost every single visitor click on the ad. This is over 100 visitors so it's not coincidence.
It works the best that way.

[Palehorse]

Data does not mean a thing without traffic numbers.

If you only had just 16 views and got one click, well that's 16% ctr right? That would actually suck to have such poor traffic. I see mine in the low low double digits when the data is fresh and it is showing less then 100 views, but after the day wears on and I have accumulated over 100K hits the ctr is in the low singles as it should be.

If you get double digits and high traffic (100K or more daily) that would make me suspect that:

A. You are running a click bot or:
B. A competitor is running a click bot against you to make you get wacked from google.

Hopefully neither is the case, averages are averages, and skewed numbers WILL red flag you and they will look very closely at this.

Mike

[ogletree]

I agree that the higher the impressions are the lower the CTR will be. 100K would put you in single digits for sure. I may not get 100K view a day but if I show enough days to have 100k views I still have double digits. I have no repeat business.

[fidibidabah]

"..if someone is searching for “fossil watches” and you provide only information on these watches and not selling the actual product, after reading thought your site they will probably click on one of the ads... It works the best that way."

That's funny, if I had a website with information on fossil watches, I'd just toss up links to fossil.com, and instead of making 30-50 cents a click, pull an average $2/click after 15% commissions. I think it works best _that_ way ;)