This is my 2nd month of focusing steadily on ad$en$e.

For the day 1/21/12, as of this moment I am at 35% ctr...was as high as 47% across less than 7 sites.

Isn't this abnormally high ctr? I thought the average was roughly 1-3% ctr. I was under the impression anything higher signals red flags, no?


As I stated last month was my first real crack at ad$en$e & I finished December with slightly less than 2% ctr across 2 sites. Athough I did have double digit CTR% days as high as 30%.


Just wanted to get some more insight from other experienced ad$en$e vets on what's the ctr of their top preforming sites & if high ctr, although monetarily very good, can raise suspicion?

you are seriously get banned with that ctr

my ctr i s 0.20

above 2.5 is dangerous in my opinion

what theme do u have? ctrtheme?

just make sure you don't have ads placed in spots where people click on it by accident.

That indeed is dangerously high.
Keep it around 1-3%, I consider above 5% very dangerous.

As long as your site is "legal", that CTR is fine, meaning as long as you comply the TOS and the ads convert normally for the advertisers. If the CTR is high and the advertisers don't convert like they do on other sites, that will probably flag you, but just having a high CTR isn't bad on it's own. My CTR is 20-30% every day.

As long as the traffic is organic, it doesn't matter what your CTR is.
I have a 25% CTR on a site of mine, and it's been that way for 6 months.
If your traffic is junk, and it doesn't back out for the advertisers, that's when you'll have issues.

wow, i hope that won't cause you a ban hammer from freak adsense mngt..

Originally Posted by Gorush

what theme do u have? ctrtheme?

Yes. But i recently modified the arrangement of ad placement according to this thread

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...algorithm.html

Originally Posted by Lalalaenhund

As long as your site is "legal", that CTR is fine, meaning as long as you comply the TOS and the ads convert normally for the advertisers. If the CTR is high and the advertisers don't convert like they do on other sites, that will probably flag you, but just having a high CTR isn't bad on it's own. My CTR is 20-30% every day.

I've modeled my sites after other high performing 'by-the-book-straight-shooting' ad$en$e experts. But I'm not quite sure what you mean by "convert"...? Mind going into more detail?

Originally Posted by themidiman

As long as the traffic is organic, it doesn't matter what your CTR is.
I have a 25% CTR on a site of mine, and it's been that way for 6 months.
If your traffic is junk, and it doesn't back out for the advertisers, that's when you'll have issues.

All my traffic is completely organic. I have seo'd everything with the intent to get up the rankings the right way in the shortest amount of time.

Originally Posted by ichiban

I've modeled my sites after other high performing 'by-the-book-straight-shooting' ad$en$e experts. But I'm not quite sure what you mean by "convert"...? Mind going into more detail?

I mean, there's a difference between having a high CTR because the user is interested in the ad and having a high ctr because the user thinks the ad is actually a part of the site. You just gotta have a feel for it and think from the advertisers perspective if you want to stay completely safe. Depends on the niche, too. Hope I'm making any sense, I'm having a hard time putting this to words

Also, I wouldn't really use CTR theme, since it's really easy to just make a simple site with other free themes/artisteer and achieve similar results, and I think popular MFA-themes like CTR-theme and clickbump etc. might not look too good under a manual review, simply because it looks like a textbook example of a MFA-site, regardless of the quality of the content, I mean the reviewers probably see a lot of these kinda sites and pretty much just automatically ban you... They're like "just another day at the office". But if you have an original theme, they may take a little more time looking at the site and decide to spare you. Makes sense, right?

Originally Posted by Lalalaenhund

I mean, there's a difference between having a high CTR because the user is interested in the ad and having a high ctr because the user thinks the ad is actually a part of the site. You just gotta have a feel for it and think from the advertisers perspective if you want to stay completely safe. Depends on the niche, too. Hope I'm making any sense, I'm having a hard time putting this to words

Also, I wouldn't really use CTR theme, since it's really easy to just make a simple site with other free themes/artisteer and achieve similar results, and I think popular MFA-themes like CTR-theme and clickbump etc. might not look too good under a manual review, simply because it looks like a textbook example of a MFA-site, regardless of the quality of the content, I mean the reviewers probably see a lot of these kinda sites and pretty much just automatically ban you... They're like "just another day at the office". But if you have an original theme, they may take a little more time looking at the site and decide to spare you. Makes sense, right?

Thanks. I absolutely understand you....Yeah, that's one of my major concerns about ctr theme. Although it's clean looking and has cool features like automatically rearranging the ad blocks, it certainly DOES feel like it's somewhat manipulating the user's experience.

My next set of batch of ad$en$e sites are going to be with prosense theme. Can you recommend some other ad$en$e friendly themes?

Originally Posted by ILoveCSharp

you are seriously get banned with that ctr

my ctr i s 0.20

above 2.5 is dangerous in my opinion

Originally Posted by AdsMakesSense

That indeed is dangerously high.
Keep it around 1-3%, I consider above 5% very dangerous.

Don't listen to these guys, as long as you're abiding by G's TOS you have nothing to worry about. My average CTR for January is 12% but has been higher in the past and I've never had issues. On the other side of things, 35% CTR is a lot higher than I've seen. How many UVs / Pageviews are you getting per day/month?

Be sure you have a terms of service and privacy policy section on all your websites. This is the most common reason people get booted from Adsense.

As said before, read Google's TOS word by word. They are probably going to do a manual review of your site with that high of a CTR, so be sure you are legit 100%

Anytime your CTR is that high, you're going to be asking for trouble. I don't care if people are having success, I don't think it will last.

I suggest you find a way to keep it at 5% or lower (and ideally 1%-3%).

One way to do this is to buy traffic. It can be very cheap depending on who you are going to and while it does eat into your margin, it beats being banned.

Originally Posted by ichiban

Can you recommend some other ad$en$e friendly themes?

I actually just make my themes myself with Artisteer. I just remove anything that isnt reguired and make it clean looking with a color-scheme that matches the niche. I doesn't take long and I kinda enjoy that part of making a website.

I can't recommend you any specific theme though.

Originally Posted by TeenAngel

Anytime your CTR is that high, you're going to be asking for trouble. I don't care if people are having success, I don't think it will last.

I suggest you find a way to keep it at 5% or lower (and ideally 1%-3%).

One way to do this is to buy traffic. It can be very cheap depending on who you are going to and while it does eat into your margin, it beats being banned.

Yeah, buying traffic is more likely to get you banned than a high ctr...

If your going by G's rules and getting high CTR then there's no problem. To me Adsense is not like CPA - no need to put in garbage traffic to keep CTR down for Adsense. In fact buying traffic is against Adsense terms I believe.

Man wish I had that sort of Ctr, think my average is about 3%. got any tips?

Originally Posted by ILoveCSharp

you are seriously get banned with that ctr

my ctr i s 0.20

above 2.5 is dangerous in my opinion

sure you will get banned with ctr above 3% !!!

google does not like sites with more than 3% ctr

hey these 10% + ctr people how much do you get paid per month ? did you get paid any ?

i have experi3enced over 30 CTR n didnt get banned since years. as for as its legit

Originally Posted by AdsMakesSense

That indeed is dangerously high.
Keep it around 1-3%, I consider above 5% very dangerous.

I don't understand statements such as this, if his clicks are genuine and generated through natural traffic, how could he be possibly be facing a ban? as far as i can see everyone wins....

Google doesn't really look at your CTR, they look at if those clicks are legitimate user, if they actually buy a product/service, and if those user's are always clicking on advertisements. The higher the CTR is, and more illegitimate users, the more they are going to suspect that your up to no good, and trying to start trouble in the google neighborhood, it takes one little click to mess it up, and then they'll ban your account.

Make sure your competitor doesn't clicks ur ads.

Originally Posted by ilanru

Make sure your competitor doesn't clicks ur ads.

And how do you do this?

CTR depends on the keywords you are ranking. I used to have 50%+ ctr for buyers keywords and had no problems. (the panda killed my site but my adsense account is fine) If your visitors are actually buying after they click on your adsense ad there is no problem, you can have even 100% ctr.