High CTR.

How will G react?

[Fish_Texas]

My site is getting over 30% CTR.
No tricks, just good clean content and well placed ads with important info the visitor wants...Absolutely All White Hat.

I've read somewhere that G might consider this too high to be on the up & up and flag the account. Should I be concerned?

I've considered putting on more ads on less valuable pages just to get the percentages down, but won't this cause my income per click to go down?
Thanks in advance for your input & advice.
Fish Texas

[MThiessen]

Are you talking about page ctr or ad unit ctr?

If its page CTR, that's rockin imo, and really don't worry at all about red flags if you are 100% white hat. Sit back an enjoy the ride.

Some niches really work well with adsense, I have seen a good 50% difference in CTR from one theme to another with the same traffic. Just part of it I guess...

[Fish_Texas]

MThiessen: Overall Site CTR... Not unit. Absolutely 100% White hat...
If I put more ads on to reduce % won't that reduce (per click)income as well?
Thanks, Fish

[edited by: Fish_Texas at 2:33 am (utc) on Feb. 18, 2007]

[BigDave]

Why do you give a damn about "per click income"?

Yeah, your average per click might go down, just as you CTR and eCPM. So what?

If you are serving 10k ads and you make $1,000 you will have much better per click income than if you serve 100k ads and make $5,000. Your "per click income" will be better, but your total income will be much worse. Give me the higher total income any day.

[Fish_Texas]

Got a point Big Dave...
New to this and just trying to tweak the ad number, placement etc.
Thanks, Fish Texas

[MThiessen]

Bottom line is the bottom line, like he said. The numbers are just useful "feedback" to how well you have them placed. You sound like a good candidate for more ads imo. Try max amount of ad units if you can make them not make your page look stupid. Would be interested in hearing if it increases your bottom line.

[Fish_Texas]

Increased by almost 100%...bottom line...I stopped worrying about high traffic pages/low traffic pages and put them on all pages.
All I can say to myself is...duhhh.
Thanks folks.
Fish Texas