What's a good CTR?

[jhtyler]

What kind of CTR should I be shooting for with Adsense?

Right now, I'm struggling to get 1%. Usually I'm between .8% and 1%.

Even that much was a bit of a struggle, and I've gotten that much by trying to use Google's reccomended hot zones as much as possible.

Is that good? Bad? Needs work?

I guess I'm just wondering what the median click through percentage is that most people are getting.

[stickycarrots]

We're averaging about .22% ... consider yourself lucky

[almac]

i get CTR of 1.77 but only make around $3 a week out of 2000 impressions not sure if thats related to visits as i get about a 1000 a day (proxy site)

[Trommsdorff]

Anything less than 4.59 percent is crap.

Seriously, it varies widly by site, position, type of site, etc. There is no universal answer.

[linkin99]

Between .4 and .5 for me. Not a lot of relevant ads for my site.

[ablaye]

Anything less than 4.59 percent is crap.

Seriously, it varies widly by site, position, type of site, etc. There is no universal answer.

I am sure a lot of people do not get near 4.59%.

I get 1% and I don't think it is that bad.

[yfzcentral]

around .10ish to .15is%, pshhh! That's what happens when you have a forum and bad adsense positionings.

[ganny512]

I wish I can have at least 5%

[chimaera]

1.50% on my main site (in signature). The problem I face is more that often those clicks are worth $0.01 =0\

[djstreet]

Anything less than 3% is bad and suggests you need to do some basic SEO/Markting/Design work. In reality webmaster shouldn't accept anything less.

[Deadlock]

Overall I get 1.5 which I guess is ok but I think should be higher.