Japanese parking ctr

[mj]

Is it just me or do Japanese sites (parked or minisites) have infamously low CTR compared to other languages?

I have latin domains that get 30-50% ctr, but most of my japanese will get 1-3% ctr.

I've always wondered wtf the problem is with regard to Japanese people clicking (or lack thereof). Any thoughts?

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[BurnsInternet]

I hardly get any legitimate Japanese traffic. I just looked at one year stats, and the CTR for Japanese is bad (9%). My Georgian, Hebrew, Korean, Chinese, Bengali, Tamil, Hindi, and single character IDNs are also all below 10%.

French, Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai, etc. are all better. Polish (44%), Arabic (34%), and Swedish (30%) leading the pack. The rest are not far behind. My English ASCIIs do better than most IDN, but I think the numbers are respectable.

The problem is speculators and bots!

[rhys]

Since Jan 1, 2008 my CTR for Japanese domains have been .JP 11% .COM/.NET 9% and .TV 15%. This is on par with my ascii domains at 12% and my thai domains are superior with 24%.

Basically 10% is what I expect. So I guess performance is relative to expectations. My best traffic domains are all optimized though.

[yanni]

Namedrive:

My Japanese .com 14.76 ctr

My best above 30%:

Turkish 46% (low cpc)
Finnish 40% (only one domain
Swedish 34%
Norwegian 33%
Portuguese 33% (very low cpc)
German 30%
Ukrainian 30%

The worst:

Czech 7.31%
Hebrew 8.74%

The surprise:

Chinese 12 cents avg cpc (five domains with low traffic; maybe there's a Japanese in there by mistake...)

I should add these are past 365 days.