What’s Your Real CTR?

I often come across forum posts where people complain about their poor CTR in Adsense.

But in my opinion the Adsense CTR numbers don’t tell you the real story.

Adsense stats report clicks / page impressions and that’s your adsense Click Through Ratio.

What is important is the real CTR which for means how many of the visitors clicked on something!

I love to combine Adsense and Chitika and occassionaly sneak in an Amazon affiliate link.

So the real question is whether your overall CTR is good.

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AdSense and Chitika Combos That Will Skyrocket Your CTR

You probably know that one of the best ways to increase AdSense CTR (click through ratio) used to be the trick with pictures.

When AdSense ads were aligned with little photos, CTR and earnings went through the roof.

Google obviously realized this and posted an official correction to its TOS on its AdSense blog.

What you may also know is that Chitika ads include small pictures of the featured products, which make the adverts look very attractive.

I have for some time been exploring various AdSense and Chitika combos to improve my CTR in a way that complies with both AdSense and Chitika TOS.

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