How To Increase Adsense CTR

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An increase in CTR can mean a lot to AdSense Revenue. To increase AdSense revenue, you have to either increase the traffic or CTR. If somehow, you manage to triple your CTR just by tweaking the Google AdSense code, you can get three times more traffic. Here are a few tips for increasing your CTR.

Webmasters have diverse views on how to increase CTR. It largely depends upon the keywords you are targeting, look of your website, quality of its content, placement of AdSense ads, page optimization, and various other factors. Generally, AdSense blocks wrapped between the quality content works the best. For the websites having poor quality content, placing the Ads before the start of the content works well.

If you develop a poor quality content website, it will likely give you high CTR and clicks, but you will be getting low priced ads. Besides, nobody will like to add your URL to their favorites. However, if you have quality content that keeps the visitors glued, you may get low CTR, but you will be getting high priced ads and regular visitors.

Proper positioning of ads on your website has direct impact on your CTR. Change the location of the ads and watch the changes in your CTR regularly. Try to locate the area of the page where the focus of the visitor can be. Generally, AdSense ads near the quality content or other crucial areas like navigation bar tend to perform better. But it really depends upon the keywords you are targeting, and the traffic you have.

Traffic
AdSense comes after traffic. No traffic, no AdSense. Take good care of your traffic. Your visitors expect some valuable information from you. Make sure you are providing quality content to them. This will increase your visitors' return back ratio. And only those visitors who are less targeted, will return to the content you are providing. More targeted users mean more CTR. 85% of my visitors add my website URLs in their favorites. And they do return.

Install a website stats monitoring software and regularly look at your web logs. Identify where exactly is the traffic coming from. Try to establish a pattern or relation between your AdSense stats and traffic stats. This will help you analyze the reasons for any marked deviations in the inflow of traffic. This will give you new ideas to develop traffic.

Experiment
Experiment and experiment a lot, till you are satisfied with the tweaks you have done to achieve the highest CTR. Track your page performance by making channels of ads in your AdSense Control Panel. Keep experimenting till you are satisfied with your CTR. Though, every such experiment will make you lose money for a day or two, as Google may take time to adjust with new changes, but it will be beneficial in the long run.
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  • Profile picture of the author Weedy92
    In short to save people time from reading all of that... Find more high quality traffic sources, and optimize your ad formats and ad layouts around your site and figure out where users are more prone to click through.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
      Originally Posted by Weedy92 View Post

      In short to save people time from reading all of that... Find more high quality traffic sources, and optimize your ad formats and ad layouts around your site and figure out where users are more prone to click through.
      Oddly enough, that's exactly what I read too..
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  • Profile picture of the author manishak
    I am looking for increasing my CTR. My traffic on movies site is good, but CTR is very low - about 0.8%. I was thinking of changing the placement of Adsense ad (leader board ad) in the middle of the movie boxes. Do you think it would be a good idea?

    Apart from that unless the ads are relevant to the movies, why should visitors even click them. I was seeing that ads like 'Baby Frocks', 'Want puppies' etc were getting displayed on my site. And they seemed so out of context that even I won't click them!

    So how to attract relevant ads?

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    The only way you are going to know is by trying it out: Move an ad, wait a week. See if you notice an improvement in the CTR. Also watch page views and bounce rate because this will tell you if people are not liking the change and just leaving. Tons of factors go into this stuff.. their are probably books on it
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    • Profile picture of the author manishak
      Originally Posted by Nelapsi View Post

      The only way you are going to know is by trying it out: Move an ad, wait a week. See if you notice an improvement in the CTR. Also watch page views and bounce rate because this will tell you if people are not liking the change and just leaving. Tons of factors go into this stuff.. their are probably books on it
      Well, my current bounce rate is about 50%. What kind of bounce rate should be a red flag after the change?
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