300+ visitors a month but CTR is 0.35%

Can you install google analytics on blogger? You would be able to see what "keywords" your visitors are using to find your blog, then expand on the keywords.

I already have analytics. The problem is CTR and bounce rate. I was hoping there were some good themes for blogger that would address these issues. Thanks for the reply.

Great but conversion rate, low

I was wondering if you have any testimonials on your site, and also what kind of pitch you had on the website to keep them there. Maybe you need to upsell the intellectual property in your articles with a statement like - If you want to skip the mistakes and save thousands of dollars starting a business, just take 5 minutes and read these articles. I know it is cheesy, but experiment to make them stay on the site. There is an experiment tool on adwords where you can switch your website around and they track your conversions to find the best material for your site.

You need to improve site traffic, 400 visitors a month isn't a whole lot.

Impossible to comment without seeing the Blog or the content.

Now if you determine your content is good, your (my) next question is probably: How do I get them from only being interested in the subject/topic they came to my site for ---> to wanting to see what else my site has to offer them?

I'm trying stuff like Related Posts, links within the articles, not having a whole lot of success. You?

There is a lot of factors that could be the cause of such a low CTR.

First your traffic is so low you're only getting about 10 visitors a day. You need to work on promoting your blog more so readers will recommend your blog to their friends or classmates.

That brings me to adding social buttons so people can easily share your tutorials.

Also are your headlines of your tutorials catchy? Do you have something like "Learn how to make money" or "Discover the secret methods to making your own ATM". Which one would you click on?

Have your tutorials linked together not just on the navigation. Under your first tutorial have a section on the bottom saying "Related Tutorials".

Also be honest with yourself are your tutorials high-quality? Most visitors don't read other articles or come back to your site if your content is trash. So have other people give you honest constructive criticism about your site.

common factors for bounce rate:
CATCHING your viewer. if they read the first paragraph, they're WAY more likely to read the rest of what you have to offer. people deal with a lot of garbage, so if it seems like garbage in the beginning, they will assume that it is and stop reading in order to preserve their time

PROFESSIONALISM. be someone that they are sure that they can trust.

MATCHING TRAFFIC. you don't want traffic, you want to match traffic with what's valuable to them. if you have 300 visitors a month but you have a 90% bounce rate, hey, lets be serious, you have about 30 real visitors a month. .35% ctr suddenly becomes a 3.5% ctr - still not so great for $ for time return, but if you've got big conversion numbers 3.5% will pay rent (obviously not in this case but you get my point)



if you're having these problems, i would hazard to guess that you have a weak grounding in marketing with a strong grounding in the internet, especially if you're getting decent traffic. focus on marketing and professionalism, it's not called "internet get views", its called "internet marketing"

have you tried using ctr themes?

I think it is the problem about the target traffic to your site.You should adjust your keywords with most relevance.Thus you will get the target visitors with high CTR.Of course, your article content must be interesting and attractive

You should throw the ads right in their face. A large rectangle block like BOOM so they can't miss it. I increased my ctr from 2.5% to 8% that way.

My advice to you is to buy a domain and hosting, this way your business will have more value..

Not surprising. Most "students" don't want to click any ads.

Actually I don't know anyone in real life that would actually "want" to click on an ad.

So you need more traffic and better ad placement most likely.

Your visitor demographics are tech savvy young students, that probably has adblocker installed on their browser or otherwise do not like to click on ads. That's probably the reason why you are seeing low CTR.

Then what about mine?
My blog gets on an average 650 page views each week,with 94.81% New and 5.19% Returning visitors. But the Bounce Rate is 91.62%, more miserably CTR now dropped to only 25% :O.
Probably I'm doing fatal mistake in ad placing. So, please anyone review my blog (in my Sig) and give me your precious advice.
Thanks

Your site looks like a hotdog stand. Red, white, yellow, random ads here and there. Ahhh!! lol

Fine something that matches your product... you blog about iphones... iphones aren't red or yellow, few are white... try something that goes with the theme you're talking about. My first impression of your site is "this is not an iphone site, I'll just hit back and see what else google recommends". Clean it up and bounce rate will drop. The more time people spend on your site, the more likely they are to click.