Whats your average Adsense CTR?

Negotiator74

13 years ago

Not very exciting but my sites seem to average 3 to 4%...

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Unpleasantry

13 years ago

.5% lol. One small ad on the far left side

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InsanitySEO 13 years ago

Some folks are selling 20% ctr themes. Go get em.
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- Curtis2011 10 years ago
  
  I don't use Adsense at the moment but in the past I typically hovered around 1-3% depending on website layout.
  
  Ironically, back when I made my very first website with Adsense, it had around a 5-6% CTR. I later realized that the design of the pages was so ugly that visitors were just clicking on ads to get off the page as soon as possible.
  
  Originally Posted by InsanitySEO
  
  Some folks are selling 20% ctr themes. Go get em.
  
  In my experience, this is always a lie.
  
  I've tried "high CTR" themes in the past and never achieved the type of results that the sellers advertised.
  
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Curtis2011

13 years ago

Average for Adsense noobs: Terrible, less than 0.1%.

Average for people who take a few minutes to optimize placement: maybe 1%.

Average for well optimized sites: maybe 3%.

Average for thoroughly-tested made-for-Adsense sites: anywhere from 5% to 25% to maybe even higher.

The best results I've ever heard of from a real person was a guy who told me that his pages got above a 10% CTR. They were product-focused information pages and the ads were for those exact products.

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car4hires

13 years ago

its 5%. is good Adsense CTR.

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Thriftypreneur

13 years ago

Really interesting numbers so far.

Anyone have any good experiences with CTR Themes? If so, which?

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James-

13 years ago

I averaged 15.8% for 350k+ page views over a period of a few months. The site earned me a lot.

I am now doing another site in the same niche setup exactly the same way targettign adifferent keyword and cant for the life of me work out how to get above 4% CTR. I'm pretty convinced AdSense is just showing a load of crap on my sites these days as the numbers aren't what they once were for me.

It's not all about placements, but if you set them up well you should be getting 5%+ easily if the ads are relevant.

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Curtis2011 13 years ago

Originally Posted by James-

I averaged 15.8% for 350k+ page views over a period of a few months. The site earned me a lot.

Do you use a popular CTR theme or your own design? Any chance you could show us the template?
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James-

13 years ago

Basically a self-modified version of this:
Kubrick Theme — WordPress Themes for Blogs at WordPress.com

Thin layout, with a large adsense rectangle above the fold in the middle as you go down the page.

That CTR was from over a year ago now tho, i dont have that site anymore. Also these days everyone uses mobiles to view pages, makes it a lot harder to get the same sort of CTR figures in my opinion.

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HeatMap 13 years ago

Originally Posted by James-

Also these days everyone uses mobiles to view pages, makes it a lot harder to get the same sort of CTR figures in my opinion.

Yup, these days mobiles and tablets are becoming a big factor so if we want to keep that CTR up there we have to make sure our sites can 'respond' with the right kind of ads in the right kind of locations to suit the device.

I'm noticing these days that the 320 x 50 ads and 250 x 250 that I switch in automatically when a mobile device is detected are beginning to get more clicks, so if your site is leaking ctr, maybe take a look at your mobile / tablet strategy too.
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silverm

13 years ago

currently 0.6%

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Moneymaker2012

13 years ago

It is not possible to answer this because the theme of the site is a major determining factor when it comes to ctr.

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Wide

13 years ago

I'm at 21% here

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ivansk

13 years ago

2-3 % here

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Iceware

13 years ago

I don't pay attention as long as I make my 5 to 15 dollars daily I don't care about anything else lol I probably should though

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nettech4

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Thriftypreneur

I know this question has a ton of variables, but I'm simply looking for a benchmark, even a vague one, to measure against.
For your information sites/blogs, what is your average Adsense page CTR? 2-5% about average?

Mine is around 1%. . If I am lucky on a day, may get 2% CTR. However, I think most of the bloggers having the similar CTR.
Calculate Normal AdSense Click Though Rate ( CTR ) Of Blogs & Forums Having 5% CTR is mind blowing for me.

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Moses.W.

13 years ago

I cant believe the CTRs over 15%. Does Google allow their Adsense membership?

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apnavarun

13 years ago

Mine is only .50% to 70% max . Just wondering how to get higher ctr. If I will get 1% that will be very good for my site.

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James-

13 years ago

my site is laid out so mobile and tablet users view it exactly the same as a desktop user would. Its a simply designed site so i dont see this as a problem. Last few days i am getting around 8-10% CTR, so it really goes to show what kind of ads show up on my site

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scrapgirl42

13 years ago

Originally Posted by James-

my site is laid out so mobile and tablet users view it exactly the same as a desktop user would. Its a simply designed site so i dont see this as a problem. Last few days i am getting around 8-10% CTR, so it really goes to show what kind of ads show up on my site

I would really like to know how to optimize my sites for mobile devices! Where can I find this kind of info?

Also, about the CTR rate, my sites that have a CTR theme (it is called CTR

) have around a 20% CTR. BUT, everyone one of them had a Google Webmaster 'thin content' warning slapped on them the end of June. Working to re-write my content, but it isn't really thin. Just realistic info about the topic. Weird . . .

My other non-CTR themed sites average around 3-5% CTR, and non of them have the warning. I am wondering if the theme is why . . .

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HeatMap 13 years ago

Originally Posted by scrapgirl42

I would really like to know how to optimize my sites for mobile devices! Where can I find this kind of info?

If you are running a fixed width template and want to stick with it then the easiest way would be to install a mobile plugin like wp-touch and then run a plugin which can detect a mobile devices and automatically inject a mobile ads into your content. Click Missile plugin does that.

Of course to get most flexibility with ad placement you'll need to switch to an responsive ads theme specially built for that job (and then you wouldnt require the mobile plugin).
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- littlepandaman 13 years ago
  
  2.5%
  
  My sites don't remotely sell anything, so visitors aren't looking to buy. 2.5% is good in that sense, but I'd like to boost it a bit.
  
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m2bsolutions

13 years ago

I think 3 to 4% adsense ctr is good.

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chg

13 years ago

Across the 1,100 sites I own, the overall average is 4.4% network wide. Some produce higher, some lower!

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IndependentBusinessOwner

13 years ago

Currently at 1.71%

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eman2011

13 years ago

My adsense CTR varies. Sometimes it goes around 3 - 4 % and sometimes falls below 1%. Last month it went about 0.5%.

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dewayneboyd

13 years ago

Are any of you with less than 5 percent actually doing anything to improve your CTR? Why people accept such low figures is beyond me unless they are monetizing the same pages in other ways.

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nikhilsonu11

13 years ago

My site average ctr is around 2% to 5% last month.Its various all time some time it will be around 1% below also.

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jgant

13 years ago

4 to 8%. Depends on the piece of content I promote on social media. On average, 5 to 6% which I'm good with.

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peterperseo 13 years ago

Between 17% and 21%.
But of course it depends by your niche. With niches where go people in needing to buy as soon as possible (like mine) of course the CTR is higher than other niches where people mostly is looking for informations.

I have a very new site with... 78% CTR, but it's just because it's very new, and in the first month I got 9 visits and 7 clicks
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Amadish

12 years ago

Its usually between 1% and 3 % for well written websites

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Feiraz1980

11 years ago

I get 4 - 5% for this month. Happy to see the significant increase of the CTR. Last month the ctr was hard to reach 1%

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DABK 11 years ago

11.35% in the financial world
3.23% in fitness equipment
5.41% in real estate.
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sojibrahman

11 years ago

3.5-5% avg

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Arian Surya

11 years ago

Somewhere between 4-7%..

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Cityofdreams

11 years ago

around .755342 only have adsense up for a few extra dolla's a month, nothing special

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markbrown1

11 years ago

We get around 3% in the weight loss niche, but not before we tested "every imaginable" ad position...in the beginning, with ads on top and to the side of our content, it was well below 2%...

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mattcarter99

11 years ago

Not very exciting but my sites seem to average 2 to 4%...

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Jonathan Henson 11 years ago

Approximately 13.5% CTR across all my sites. A few years ago that number was closer to 16% (on some days I would get a scary 18-19%) but it has gone down a little and stayed at about 13.5% consistently for the last 3 years.

I credit my high CTR to experimenting with ad placement, and because I have used 336 X 280 ads almost exclusively, above and below my content.
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aliblogger1985

11 years ago

mine ctr remain between 3% to 5% and i think it is good as ctr over 5% considered dangerous.

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DABK 11 years ago

Considered dangerous by who? I mean, besides you.

Originally Posted by aliblogger1985

mine ctr remain between 3% to 5% and i think it is good as ctr over 5% considered dangerous.
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kamaldeepchandel

11 years ago

Google doesn't allow the CTR which is more than 10%. If you got more than 10% CTR on regular basis Google can suspend your account.

2 to 4% CTR is perfect for any website and you can earn good amount if you got good ranking in Google.

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hatrick

11 years ago

I have been using Adsense Pro Ultimate theme that gives me around 4% CTR for 2 of my websites. I do agree with kamal that if you have an abnormal CTR then Google may ban you for it, so choose your theme wisely.

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navi009

11 years ago

8-10% only

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DrawissimoKids 10 years ago

Hi guys. Which CTR (there are 3 different) is relevant and shouldn't be too high? I can see 3 different CTR values in Adsense for content and our numbers (for last month) are currently:

Page CTR: 0.85%
CTR: 0.23%
Ad CTR: 0.22%

Last 16 months:
Page CTR: 0.85%
CTR: 0.25%
Ad CTR: 0.25%

Are this numbers Ok, should they the numbers be lower or can they be higher and what is the % when Google becomes alerted?
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BAC

10 years ago

CTR upto 5 is good. Mine is 3%.

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adamgreenwood

10 years ago

Nobody is getting over 20% CTR without some kind of fraud going on.

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DrawissimoKids 10 years ago

So what you guys think about it? We have too low right? And which CTR is the right to check since there are 3 different?
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waleeed00

10 years ago

Ironically, back when I made my very first website with Adsense, it had around a 5-6% CTR. I later realized that the design of the pages was so ugly that visitors were just clicking on ads to get off the page as soon as possible.

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drastic

10 years ago

very low with AdSense because they keep giving me generic ads, even though our site has a pretty niched out list of content. I was able to get 7-10% with some native ad groups, but the ppc amount earned was crap.

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