can someone explain this...

thanks for the insight riboflavin, ill fix it asap.

 

my site http://www.traveleak.com has horrible CTR, although its a month old and gets almost no traffic, i get absolutely NO clicks. any suggestions?

 

It's not possible to have no clicks. So tell in number how much traffic you have daily.

At least at the top ad unit there must be some clicks (if there is some quality traffic), because of pics at the top of unit.

 

about 12 impressions

 

You need to get more impressions... even if you got one click on your next "impression" that would be 1/13, which is like 7%, which is high for CTR.

Get traffic, your ad placement is fine.

 

i try.... are the ad colors fine?

 

Hey man this is because your site is so poorly dsigned. At prsent stage 12 impressions a day is quite good and surprising indeed.

Optimize your website and get good number of back links. In 6 months to 1 year of time you can get tons of visitors

 

That is really bad but site is new. Try to SEO your site (keywords specially for your site) better and wait, time will bring results. Try with submiting site in directories etc... i wouldn't talk about getting traffic here a lot, because there is so many threads about bringing traffic to site.

 

i know i have done all this already, just playing the waiting game. it is my first website, and i havent takin any clasess or anything. i really dont know anything about web design.

 

You even don't need know alot about, but a lot about adsense earning . You must just find the perfect niche for you, with not very much competitors, with average PPC and good SEO and specially quality content or quality service.

Finding the best niche is the hardest job.