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Tuesday morning when I first checked I had only 5 impressions and 5 click throughs - giving me a 100% ctr! I was worried and watched carefully throughout the day, but eventually it got down to a 24.2 ctr, which is high, but not suspiciously high.
Yesterday seemed normal, or so I thought, but when looking today at all of yesterday I see my ctr for the day was 36.4, getting into the suspiciously high region.
And today, so far only one impression and one click through - so a 100% ctr again.
I don't have any family or friends who could be clicking either to help or hurt, because I don't tell them about my sites. And I don't think I have any competitors who would be trying to hurt me either, especially considering my site lost so much in rankings recently.
It occurred to me that maybe they are just behind in reporting the impressions, so the ctr just seems unusually high. Has anyone ever heard of this happening before?
Or maybe since my traffic and impressions are down so low what I'm seeing isn't statistically significant?
Do you think I should go ahead and email Adsense so they know its not me doing the clicking? Or wait another day or so and see what happens.
Another thing, even though I'm not making much money, the earnings of the past two days have been significantly higher than they have been since Bourbon, which is nice, but worrisome.
[Just saw that thread about the ctr/tos and what we can discuss. Not sure if talking about the ctr in this context is ok or not. If Jenstar has to edit it out, the point is my ctr rates have been too high recently, I think - at times the number of impressions even equally the number of click throughs. ]
Pages with very low daily impressions/pageviews can go over 100% CTR on occasion without anything being out of line.
You can always ask Google to look at the situation of course.
The low pageviews/ad impressions is probably the key here.
But, really, you don't have enough traffic to see accurate stats.
Maybe that is it then. Before Bourbon I didn't see ctr's like that. And I don't remember what it was like way, way before that.
At the moment the ctr for today seems to be getting pretty close to normal too.
I'll wait and if I see another day like that, I'll send an email to Adsense.
Jenstar won't edit out the CTR numbers for you.
I thought about that afterwards. It's too late for me to be able to edit it though. But hopefully Google won't care, its not like I'm saying what my usual ctr is, I'm saying these numbers are unusually high.
