Sharp Drop In Adsense CTR? Try Using Google's 'Competitive Ad Filter'
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I recently noticed a drop in the daily earnings of one of my Adsense sites. The page impressions were stable, but the CTR had fallen off by 75% (one quarter as many clicks).
Well, if the site was getting roughly the same traffic, and it was coming from the same sources, why was the click-through suddenly way down?
One look at the site and it was immediately apparent. The first ad slot - the one that returns the most $$ and is usually the one most frequently clicked - was showing an almost-unrelated ad.
Clearly the advertiser was bidding on terms that would put him on my page, but his ad was for something that wasn't applicable to those coming to the site - in other words, something my traffic wasn't going to click on!
Fortunately, there's an "easy fix". Adsense has a "Competitive Ad Filter" (under 'Adsense Setup') that lets you 'block' ads by entering either the display or destination URL. And you can block that advertisers range of ads by entering just the TLD: "maindomain.com".
Hint: the ads you might want to block don't necessarily have to be 'competitors'. In this case they were simply ads that weren't of interest for the thrust of the site.
I entered this ad's URL, 30 minutes later they were gone from my page, and my CTR is now back to where it had been previously.
Mark
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