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CTR versus Served rate

low CTR but high serve rate = high clicks

         

tetrismaster

11:17 pm on Mar 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Interesting observation:

We had 3 text ads in this campaign, getting about 3-4% CTR. I added some new ads (on Wednesday) with different titles and descriptions to see ctr variances. Since I added the new 3 text ads, It looks like G is serving up the new ads a lot more than the old ones. The results for today: The new ads have a CTR of 1.8%, but got served 30% while the old ads got served 4% of the time. Obviously, 1.8% of 30% is generating much higher number of clicks than 4% of 4%, even though 4% of 4% have a higher CTR.

What is the lesson here? Is it that if you change ads frequently, the CTR rate become obsolete?

poster_boy

12:03 am on Mar 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Google is collecting data on the new ads to achieve statistical significance in tracking the CTR.

As more data is captured, the ad with the higher CTR will show more - if you have the optimize ad serving option selected within the campaign settings, that is.

tetrismaster

10:55 pm on Mar 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

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yep, that is exactly happened. Thanks