Low CTR (Aug1)

[con771]

I realize it is early but just wondering if anyone else is seeing a very low CTR?

[sonny]

CTR sucks; outside, it's hotter than the sun right now and I've got a head cold.
I'm going to Wal-Mart to buy a blow up pool to wallow in for the rest of the day!

[FrostyMug]

very slow... too hot today to surf the web, people are probable outside in pools.

[plasma]

In germany it's getting colder and it even rains -> CTR is going up :)

[celgins]

Many school-systems in the U.S. are gearing up for students to return. That means clothes shopping, school supplies, last-minute hang outs at local clubs, etc.

Probably not a lot of folks sitting in front of computers right now.

[Powdork]

Remember, this is about low ctr, not low traffic or impressions. Mine is still 0. :(

[edited by: Powdork at 4:35 pm (utc) on Aug. 1, 2006]

[djulien]

I was about to ask what the heck the weather and traffic has to do with CTR.

All I know is that something weird is happening today as my CTR is the lowest that it's been in months.

All I can do is wait until tomorrow I suppose!

[hunderdown]

I was going to say me too but the latest update brought things up to above normal for this time of day, both in CTR and earnings.

[Bluesplinter]

Well, I will "me too" :) ... mine is still at zero, which is what led me to see if others were experiencing the same thing. Must be a reporting delay.

[Brian123]

I'll jump on the other side of the bandwagon. I'm seeing a fairly significant increase in CTR (xx%). I'm noticing a lot more of the ads with thumbnail images, as well as several of the ones without the "Ads by Gooooogle"

[plasma]

without the "Ads by Gooooogle"

Brian123: can you make a screenshot?

[Brian123]

Sure the next time I come across one. I use leaderboards and they look exactly the same as the normal ones, except they don't include the Ads by Google or the Advertise on this Site links.

[fearlessrick]

Definitely a lag in reporting today. I was showing ridiculously high CTR and low epc earlier in the day, but now it's leveling off. As opposed to a click dump, I'm looking for a page impression and earnings dump.

Makes one wonder what the system downtime Saturday was all about as it doesn't seem that any upgrades to the reporting system were made.

[Scurramunga]

so far so good for me - must be all the crappy mfa's and scam sites that I have been trashing ;-)

[edited by: Scurramunga at 11:27 pm (utc) on Aug. 1, 2006]

[hasimsg]

I also noticed some strange result in my stats:
Page views is among the highest in my site history, CTR is high, and yet earning is among the lowest.

Just to share...

[dollarshort]

Its simple Cold good, Hot bad..

[miguelito]

is it just me or are page impression reportings running way ahead of clicks received stats at the moment ?

[Negyxo]

I noticed a picture ad on one of my sitess too. When did that all start? I don't know how i feel about it. The pictures sometimes clash with my design a lot.

[benallos]

Low ctr today.

[Powdork]

Its simple Cold good, Hot bad..

Earlier this summer I graphed out the temperature of the major metro area that feeds my market against earnings and ctr and it definitely sticks to that theory.

[frakilk]

CTR is dire at the moment.

[europeforvisitors]

August 1 looked normal to me in every respect. CTR and eCPM were up just a tick from my July averages.

As I've said before, having a lot of different subtopics (and therefore a lot of different keywords and advertisers) probably helps to create an "indexed mutual fund" leveling effect--at least in sectors that aren't dominated by a relatively small number of advertisers.