| CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/29/12 11:13 AM | Guys, for the past two years I have been working hard to improve my earnings through adsense. But I am just a failure. Have tried pretty much every valid trick in the book. But no luck. The CTR refuses to go beyond 1.25% on an average. Here is my web |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/29/12 11:32 AM | I can change the side bar locations. And also place a 728x90 ad just below the top nav menu... have tried all that before. But not much luck |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | i4c | 7/29/12 11:40 AM | A CTR of 1.25% isn't too bad. You seem reliant on square blocks. Are they set to either text or image ads rather than just image and have you tried a 160X600 text ad in the side bar. I'm seeing just image ads which are rarely of interest but often te |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/29/12 12:13 PM | I have tried 160x600 as well. But the results are not different. It hardly crosses a CTR of 1.25% |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | travler | 7/29/12 12:15 PM | Lost Guy, you might be interested in this article by google: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html when I click on pages on your site, I see very few words of actual content - mostly ads. As noted i |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/29/12 12:25 PM | Travler, which ad should be placed down. The one in the side bar? Or the one in the body of the post? |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | pts12 | 7/29/12 12:54 PM | Too many square blocks too close together. This might sound crazy but try reducing the number of ad units to one or two per page. My site only has one or two unit per page and it does well. Seeing lots of ads puts people off reading further. More isn |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/29/12 1:03 PM | pts12, I have changed the location of the ad in side bar. Do you think it is fine now? I am influenced more by above-the-fold ad theory. |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | pts12 | 7/29/12 1:04 PM | Also I personally found your website very cluttered. I think you should get rid of one of the side bars. There's too much going on. |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | FijiBoy | 7/29/12 6:45 PM | If you feel like a failure at 1.25% CTR, I shouldn't even be alive. My CTR is usually 0.3-0.5% |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | zihara | 7/29/12 7:09 PM | CTR doesn't mean squat if the clicks aren't worth anything... Clicks this year seem to be worth half (or less) what they were worth last year. And Google has kinda dealt us a good conundrum: if you advertise your site and push for high traffic, you g |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/30/12 8:02 AM | Zihara, about 85% of my traffic is organic. There is no problem there. But even with a reasonably good CTR the earnings are hardly impressive. In fact, they're too less. Could you guys please look at the website again and show me where I am going wro |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/30/12 8:03 AM | pts12, could you take a look again and tell me whether the modifications I have made are fine? |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/30/12 8:04 AM | Please tell me a little more about reducing the number of ad units on a page and how it helps in generating revenue. |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 7/30/12 8:05 AM | ModestEarner, please take a look again and see if the changes I have made could be fruitful. |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | Richard Paine | 7/31/12 5:19 PM | CTR of 1.25% is pretty normal and not too bad at all. I find your site a little cluttered in my opinion. As pts12 said, a little too much going on.Firstly, it puts me off when I'm faced with a bombardment of links everywhere. I can be more inclined t |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | gddsmith | 7/31/12 6:20 PM | Personally I think 1.25% is low for what I expect but then when I see the ads that show on your site I surprised yours is that good. Obviously you should never stop testing to find what works best for your site but my personal opinion is the main iss |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 8/1/12 6:39 AM | Thanks, Richard. I took your suggestions seriously and have eliminated many links from the pages. Also, I did away with one of the sidebars. Would it now come anywhere close to a clean website? Or do I need to bring about a few more changes... |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 8/1/12 6:41 AM | Thanks, gddsmith. Yes, you are right that handwriting as a keyword is not very popular. I have reduced the number of ads on my page to 2. Do you think they are properly placed now? And thank you for your time. (http://www.writechoice.co.in) |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | Richard Paine | 8/1/12 6:54 AM | Yeah that looks better. What I do is in the main block of text of the page is to have a 336x280 ad block at the top to the left just under the main links so this is the first thing that people see when they land on the page. Also, your recent posts l |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | A Lost Guy | 8/1/12 7:09 AM | "under the main links". What do you mean by main links, Richard? |
| Re: CTR is too low... have tried for months but no luck... Help... | Richard Paine | 8/1/12 7:15 AM | Main site links at the top of each page, placing an ad under these within the main body of text of the page is where peoples eyes usually start.Try and think of areas where peoples eyes start and finish. |