Sedo CTR dropped massively this week. Confused!

[j8jweb]

The clickthrough rate for most of my Sedo parked domains seems to have been sliced in half this week, despite no differences in the ads displayed, nor in the traffic I am seeing (always around the same numbers, in the thousands)

I find this to be very strange indeed and annoying. It's a really big difference when this means a discrepancy of more than 10% ...

Anyone else suffering ?

 

[Theo]

Mine's doubled, I spent a couple of hours optimizing my keywords and it paid off.

 

[ParkQuick.com]

At the beginning of the month things always seem to change. I think it has to do with ad buys and ad budgets. Some of my domains usually shoot up and others drop - and not just with Sedo. Like RADiSTAR said, try playing with the keywords.

 

[mr-x]

My sedo revenue jumped almost 30% since the 1st.

 

[fatter]

mine also up 30 percent since the first

 

[pelican]

sometimes it might be seaon. i have domains doing well in certain months and lousy in other months even though the ctr is similar every month.

 

[missedcall]

12/06/04 33.00%
12/07/04 29.00%
12/08/04 39.00%
12/09/04 33.00%
12/10/04 35.00%
12/11/04 31.00%
12/12/04 39.00%
12/13/04 32.00%
12/14/04 30.00%
12/15/04 31.00%
12/16/04 35.00%
12/17/04 33.00%
12/18/04 34.00%
12/19/04 37.00%
12/20/04 34.00%
12/21/04 39.00%
12/22/04 36.00%
12/23/04 29.00%
12/24/04 34.00%
12/25/04 36.00%
12/26/04 34.00%
12/27/04 35.00%
12/28/04 35.00%
12/29/04 14.00%
12/30/04 15.00%
12/31/04 10.00%
01/01/05 16.00%
01/02/05 16.00%
01/03/05 14.00%

Now whats wrong since 29/12 ? This is my best domain ..always above 30% CTR since Octomber, ads didn't change....I WOULD UNDERSTAND IF the income droped due to holidays but the CTR has nothing to do with any advertises bids. This is a super quality targered traffic domain listed on first page of google for a specific one word keyword...I see no reason for the CTR to DROP after being stable for 3 months.

 

[unholy1]

Mine are up around 40% for the last 3 days.

 

[Theo]

Google danced recently. Maybe that affected rankings etc.

 

[SLushie]

My ctr at Sedo has increased back to normal since the holiday.
When I first parked my domains with Sedo their customer service helped a lot, why don't you send them an email and ask. They might be able to help.

 

[DomainTurn.com]

back to fabulous

 

[JumpingJack]

Google danced recently. Maybe that affected rankings etc.

This is what has caused it most likely. Google danced on exactly the 28th. I noticed a drop in hits on some of my sites from this date.

 

[pelican]

i suspect it is the traffic of the domain. did you keep track of your domain traffic and check whether is there a decrease in traffic.

 

[missedcall]

This is what has caused it most likely. Google danced on exactly the 28th. I noticed a drop in hits on some of my sites from this date.

Domain is still on Google page one, google placement would be an issue for traffic and income BUT not so much for the CTR ...actually traffic increased a little bit as is going up every month. Sedo is showing almost 50% less CTR which is NOT normal for such stable traffic. Ads are the same ...Euro per click is lower but I am not complaining for this as the advs bids change.
The CTR is the only thing can't have major drop and that's what happened. Just waiting Sedo's answer.

 

[fatter]

another consideration is, the sponsored adds are different for some countries, it may be that in another geographic location some advertisers dropped out, ie i posted a request for one of my domain names on another forum, the parked page was different around the world, could be your problem

 

[SLushie]

another consideration is, the sponsored adds are different for some countries, it may be that in another geographic location some advertisers dropped out, ie i posted a request for one of my domain names on another forum, the parked page was different around the world, could be your problem

that's a good point fatter, I hadn't thought of that.