CTR Theme for Crazy AdSense Click Through Rates

A few months ago, I had written about (in my ClickBump review post) how I use the ClickBump theme effectively on some of my low traffic niche blogs that promote affiliate products. I have been searching for a similar theme that is purely meant for High AdSense click rates and that’s when I came across the CTR Theme.

I bought the CTR theme last week to check if it actually propels my AdSense clicks as they claim and from my four-five days of experimenting, it doesn’t look bad at all. At the moment it is powering one of my blogs that produce around 7K page views per month. I thought of writing this CTR theme review as my AdSense CTR rates have already gone up from 1.5% to around 4-5% already.
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6 Unconventional Google CTR (Click Through Rate) Maximizing Tips

Are you suffering from poor Google CTR rates despite making it to the top 5 ranks on Google Search Engine result pages? Here are some unconventional Search Engine Optimization tips that work mainly with Google though some of these techniques would just work with other search engines as well.

The points that I am sharing here are more around making the SERP content more visible whereby the search users will be enticed to click on your Article than someone else’. Hence these are not necessarily SEO tips that will push you up further on Search results – It’s all about maximizing Google CTR from the same ranks.
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Big Traffic Change for Top URL: Webmaster Tools Alert

A week ago, I got an interesting alert in my Google Webmaster Tools dashboard for my personal blog (Ajith’s Blog Reloaded). In fact, a similar alert was sent to my linked gMail account as well that I hadn’t cared to open. With all my excitement – thinking that I got a major traffic boost and [...]

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Page RPM in Google AdSense

I got an email query from one of my readers asking What is Page RPM for my AdSense account and this blog. As I mentioned some time ago, I had removed private ads from my blogs (I even removed the Advertise page) and started putting a couple more AdSense units since January this year. Since [...]

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The Ultimate WordPress Theme Change Checklist!

As I mentioned in the last post, this blog is now powered by the Genesis framework. The Theme installation – although not as difficult or troublesome as WordPress upgrade itself – can still land you in many unforeseen and difficult situations. For example, I ran into a compatibility issue between WordPress and the Genesis framework [...]

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Moving to Genesis Framework and New Theme!

As you probably noticed, DollarShower.com has a new skin! It’s been close to three years with my previous theme that I had developed myself and to be frank I started getting bored of the same. Though it was an extremely fast loading theme, it was getting more and more difficult to maintain it with the [...]

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Google Analytics Bounce Rate – Is it your Actual Bounce Rate?

We have talked a lot about bounce rate in the past (Bounce Rate = % of Single page visits, Read What is bounce rate and how to reduce it?). Many times, I have referred to bounce rate in the context of blog design, mobile device support, landing page optimization etc. This time, we are going [...]

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FrameBreaker Javascript to Deframe Your Site

Recently a blog reader of mine notified me about a Make money site (http://qooooo.com/) that is embedding 1000s of blogs and high traffic blog posts using frames. Basically, they claim to provide a search site but all that they do is to store a lot of good quality pages using tags and allow a tag [...]

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Ultimate AdSense Myth-Busters

Ok, so much has already been talked about Google products and Google AdSense in particular. After 8 long years of its operations and consumption, the AdSense publishers and fans still keep wondering how Google may be doing things internally, how much revenue they share, how they track accounts to be banned etc. In this post, [...]

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ManageWP Review – Manage All Your WordPress Blogs in One Place

Managing the lifecycle and day to day maintenance of a WordPress blog can be a very tedious job. It is really a technically challenging job for even bloggers with some technical background and you can imagine the plight of non-technical bloggers. And what if you have to manage several WordPress blogs that you own? Well, [...]

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TimThumb and WordPress Blog Performance

There is no doubt that Timthumb is an awesome piece of PHP script to help with on-the-fly resizing of images for websites and blogs. Originally written for a WordPress theme, it’s been already exploited by 1000s of magazine style WordPress themes. However, many theme designers are using the timthumb script quite negligently that the blog [...]

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Bye Bye Facebook

It’s been two years since I stopped using Twitter as a medium to actively promote my ideas. At the moment, my twitter usage is restricted to tweeting about any relevant (not all) blog posts alone. And I must say that I never found twitter that interesting and hence didn’t really miss it. My facebook affair [...]

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