Sometimes I am so busy blogging about other things that I forget that the main focus of this blog is to portray ways for webmasters and bloggers to increase their earning potential. Usually, before making a big fuss over something I am trying, I much prefer to wait for results. Well the results are in for Chitika!
I first trialed them because I didn’t want to put all my eggs in one basket, in regards to monetizing my blogs, as I could see it was simply bad business sense to rely on just one source of income revenue. So, the search began to find out what other ways existed to add to my Adsense income. I came across Chitika only a month ago but it wasn’t until today that I realized just how good it really was. What made today so special? Not much, just the email I got from PayPal that confirmed that Chitika had made a deposit into my account. In just one month. Unlike Google Adsense where you need to accumulate $100 before a payment is made, you only need to rack up $10 to have it deposited into your account, which occurs monthly.
Chitika is very configurable so that it can easily fit in with your blog theme, and they have a whole range of ads you can use including the NEW Chitika | Premium – PPC Ad Units. This particular ad is really special as it behaviorally targets to your search engine traffic which means that the chance of getting clicks is increased dramatically. What is really unique about this ad is that if your visitors come to your blog via means other than a search engine, they do not see the ad at all, that and it is only targeted towards US traffic. I have a 728×90 banner in my header but I don’t see it because I’m an Aussie.
The beauty about displaying a second set of ads is that you dramatically increase your blog’s earning capacity. There may be times when there is nothing interesting being displayed by Google Adsense but something from Chitika catches their eye. Chitika even has a WordPress plugin that enables you to place an ad right in your post whenever you want. Once a member you can also recruit others and get 10% of their earnings as well, and what makes it really special is that it’s free which are pretty well the only sort of schemes that I promote.
Fine and dandy, Sire, but did you make a nice chunk of change off the ads, or just above that $10 mark? Not that I’d want you to blast your earnings amounts here, but I’d like to know if it’s on the high end or low end. I know it probably depends as much on people clicking as anything else, but inquiring minds still want to know.
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Just a tad over the ten bucks Mitch, but it only took me the month and it was a few cents short of what Google brought in, so in essence I doubled my monthly takings. Now all I need to do to increase it even more is to start dragging in those click happy visitors :lol_tb: