CTR on Google Ad campaign?

[RonnieG]

Dan, NO.
Even if they did, Google would certainly discount that link, and it would only be transient, since AdSense ads on another web site are dynamic content, not static. Stay off the content network. Too many issues, too little return.

[brandonre]

Thanks Ron. I appreciate your feedback. That is what I figured but just wanted to make sure. I am going to dump the content search all together.

[andy stevenson]

Speaking as an adsense publisher, and our sites return around 1000us per month from google. The CTR is very dependent on the type of visitor you get on the publishers sites. If a site has a high percentage of repeat visitors, generally they will not be lightly to click through on the adwords attached to the site. Find out the pages that the new visitors (normally search engine referred) will hit first and try to place your adds on those pages. For example www.almeria-granada.com the index page where all the new visitors arrive generally has a 3 to 5% CTR but the property search page which gets between 70 and 80% repeat visitors has a CTR of less than 1%, yet ads and ad positioning is basically the same. Also look for sites where ad integration is optimised, you will get better CTR there too.