How High of Adsense CTR Should I be worried about?

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asked Aug 6, 2016 in Google by coffeelover1 (300 points)
I've been an adsense publisher for 4 years now and was getting a 2% ctr
but now for the last 2 weeks I've been getting ctr's from 10% up to 20%
on some days.

I heard that I could get banned for invalid click activity if I have too high
of a click through rate?

How high is too high and what can I do to prevent my adsense account getting
banned?

I hate to get banned because once I get banned there's no other good alternative.

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answered Aug 6, 2016 by chad (14,670 points)
If you've been okay for 4 years and suddenly got a spike in your earnings, then I wouldn't be too worried about it.

Watch and see if it levels out after another week.

Do keep an eye on your traffic though and make sure you're not getting a lot of bot traffic. Someone could have a bot clicking on your ads to try and ban you or they could just be manually clicking on your ads.

If you're really worried you could remove some of your ads for awhile.

10% ctr is pretty high and would get me worried, but 20% would certainly have me worried if it lasted for a long time.

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