Three Days and No Clicks

[J_Evans]

I run a fairly low traffic travel site but the clicks are quite regular. I have not had a click inover three days. I went back and for over months I have not had more than one day without a click. When I visit thesite I see ads but is there something else that could be wrong? I know that things slow up sometimes but this is ridiculous. Any ideas? Thanks for your help. Jamie

[Quadrille]

First check your visitor numbers - have they dropped over recent days?

Has your site been down at all?

[J_Evans]

I have not seen any major changes in my traffic since the first of the year. I had a good Christmas season as I had some seasonal pages so it has dropped off since then but since the first of the year everything has remained pretty steady until Thursday. I'm just searching to as why the drop off. I am really struggling to grow additional traffic. If sounds so easy for some people but it has not been that way at my site. Thanks.

[Hobbs]

Good traffic is like true love, takes hard work and time, some even go as far as paying for it, you're not alone so don't despair. As for the clicks, I'd contact support if it continues with none reported in the coming days.. (I'm assuming we're not just talking about 4 or 5 clicks daily)

[martinibuster]

What are you using to check on the traffic?

[Quadrille]

Is your trade usually seasonal? Is this usually a good time of year or bad.

If it's usually a bit thin, expect worse (sorry), as the "R" word is about this year.

[ecmedia]

The CTR for all advertising is fairly low. For banner ads it is so low that they now count it like 0.1 or 0.2%. For good content and targeted ads, with Google ads it can be between 1-3% (I am talking about websites with several thousand visitors daily).

So if you are getting only, say, 100 visitors a day, then I wouldn't be surprised if you get no clicks for days and then get several on a specific day. Small websites are very difficult to evaluate based on industry stats.

[piatkow]

I use adsense to help fund a small site for a community group. Hits are too low for statistical significance but I am starting to see a distinct trough in clicks at the moemnt.

[J_Evans]

Yes I only get a hundred or so visitors per day but I was going on the average that I have no more than one day at a time with no clicks. So far today, the fourth day, yes you can guess, no clicks. First time ever since I got up and going half way decent. Also I also hate to ask becaus I should know, how do I get to support? I haven't contacted them for a year or so and I have forgot. Last time I wrote to them it took almost a month to hear back. Thanks for the help.

Jamie

[J_Evans]

This is interesting and I cannot explain it. Four days no clicks, normal traffic. Wrote to Adsense support twice and got the "closed for the weekend" message both times on Monday. First thing Tuesday, still no clicks, forwarded the same message to Adsense support again. Just a few minutes later, two clicks. Is that wierd? Why is Google closed on Monday too? Oh well, got a few clicks this morning and I'll see what happens from here. Thanks for your replies.

Jamie

[Skeptic]

I wager 50 Quatloos that when a human finally answers, the response will be a link to Adsense's TOS page.