You might already know that, now a days, it is very difficult to get adsense approval. Many people are rejected by adsense. In fact, it is not the single network to monetize your blog with. There are hundreds of alternatives to adsense.
In this article, we are going to discuss about Chitika, which is a nice replacement of adsense. I hope that after reading this review of chitika, you will be able to realize, what Chitika is and what are it's pros and cons.
Don't forget to read my old article About infolinks.
In this article, we are going to discuss about Chitika, which is a nice replacement of adsense. I hope that after reading this review of chitika, you will be able to realize, what Chitika is and what are it's pros and cons.
Don't forget to read my old article About infolinks.
A Short Introduction To Chitika
Chitika is a ppc advertisement network which is used by many people, especially who have no adsense account or they are banned by adsense. Its ads, in looking, are similar to Google adsense.
They provide targeted ads. The advertisements displayed on your blog or website are related to the search query of the visitor not to the content of your blog.
Advantages of Chitika
A list of main advantages of chitika is as follows
- You can easily get approval for chitika, unlike adsense. There are no minimum requirements for traffic or pageviews, website design or anything. Just sign up and start earning.
- Their CPC rates are less than adsense and infolinks but much more than any other ad network.
- Their minimum payout is 10$ via Paypal. Therefore, it is more better for the blogs which have very less traffic.
- You can choose you desired size from the huge list of banners. I'll discuss about this topic, at the end of article.
- They have an affiliate program which can help you earn more money from your blog by referring Chitika to other people.
- If you have adsense account; you do not need any other ad program but if you've some empty ad spaces, then you can use chitika to fill them.
- Availability of Mobile Advertisements.
Easy Approval
If you have tried to get approval for adsense, buysellads, media.net or any other program except infolinks, then you might be aware of this reality that they don't approve blogs easily. Chitika is totally different because it's easy to get approval for it, even you have just to create an account and place ad units to your blog sidebar or any where you want.
Fair CPC Rates
It's true that their rates are not higher than Google adsense but being the alternative to adsense, they provide good rates. If you have 500 ad views per day, then you can earn about 2.5 dollars. I know that it is not so good but something is better than nothing.
Large Variety of Banners
They offer a lot of sizes of banner. It's up to you whether you choose one or the other. You should use large banner if you have a lot of space on your blog or if your blog has less capacity, then an ad of short size will look perfect and attractive. You can choose banner of the following sizes.
- 160 × 160
- 200 × 200
- 250 × 250
- 300 × 150
- 300 × 600
- And they have many more sizes as you are seeing the screen shot below.
Earn More From Their Referral Program
Chitika is one of those companies who have their own referral program which can be the source of some more income for you. You can download banners from their website and place them to your blog. When any one will sign in to chitika by click on your banner, then you'll get 10% of his earnings, every month.
Must Read: Make Money With Infolinks Referral Program
Must Read: Make Money With Infolinks Referral Program
You can use Chitika and Google Adsense at The Same Time
Have you got an adsense account? if so, it is better for you because you can use both networks, together. Firstly, having an account of adsense, no body needs to use chitika but in any case if you have a space on your site, then feel free to fill it with chitika ads.
Chitika Provides The Facility to Customize ads
You can customize ads, according to your desires. You'll be able to change colours and sizes, same as you do in infolinks.
Disadvantages of Chitika
Sometimes, everything may not be perfect and it has some disadvantages, too. Here, the similar case is with chitika. So, let me tell you about some drawbacks of chitika.
- It provides less ad rates than Google adsense
- Chitika offer only one payment method, (PayPal).
- They show ads only when your blog receive organic traffic (traffic from search engines)
Sign up For Chitika
Now, its time to get started with chitika.
- Go to Chitika and click on Sign up button at the right side.
- Here, you need to enter your email address and click on Go button
- Open email account and click on confirmation link
- That's it your account has been created. Now you can sign in
How To Place Chitika Ad in Your Blog
When you will sign in to chitika, the place where you'll land is called dashboard. Here you can see an ad code generator. If you are using ad blocker, then you have to disable it other wise it will not work. After selecting and customizing banner of your desired size, click on Get Code Button and copy that JavaScript code from the pop up box.
- Open your blogger account and go to layout
- Select Add a gadget
- Choose HTML/JavaScript from the list
- Paste the code which you have copied.
- Hit Save button.
How To Use Mobile Advertisements
- Go to Ads>>Settings
- Click on ON, if you want to enable mobile ads, other wise select OFF
- You are done!
Use Chitika Apps Option
You can choose one or all of the three apps.
- Linx
- Hover
- Highlighted
These are in-text ads by chitika. The keywords are automatically detected by chitika and are linked as advertisements.
What is Hover?
This ad appears as pop up in the right bottom corner of your blog.
What is Highlighted app?
When user highlight a piece of text to copy; this ad appears below the text of paragraph.
- Go to Ads>>Settings>>Default Apps
- ON or OFF, apps as you need.
So, What's The Conclusion?
This was a complete review of chitika, I hope that you have understand almost every thing about Chitika and now, you can decide whether you have to use it or not.
Chitika is useless if you have gotten adsense account because it can generate more revenue for you but it may give better results than infolinks, in some cases.
It will satisfy you, if you have 10,000 monthly page views or more.
So, go ahead and sign up for chitika.