Chitika Review – Best Adsense Alternative
Chitika is an Online Advertising Network Company located in United States. Just like Adsense, you can earn money from Chitika by placing their ads on your website or blog. Chitika is not so popular in India because of the lack of advertisers in India, but now it growing very rapidly and their advertisers have also increased considerably. If you have a website / blog and you are not getting accepted into Adsense then Chitika can serve as the best adsense alternative. The first thing that makes Chitika a good adsense alternative is their trust. Chitika has thousands of publishers who are serving chitika ads on their website and are getting paid regularly. Chitika is a big company and has good reputation in the eyes of both advertisers and publishers.
The main thing that sets apart Chitika from other advertising company is the method on how they display ads. In more technical terms, Chitika is a search-targeted advertising company. It means the ads will be shown to users if they come to your site through search engines. This means you got to have good search traffic to your Blog / Website to earn good from Chitika.
Detailed Review of Chitika Advertising Network
Chitika CPC (Cost per Click)
Chitika cpc is very good for traffic coming from USA, Canada, UK and Europe. As of now traffic from Asia and India also gets a fair cpc rate. As their advertisers begin to grow to a good number in Asia then their cpc rate will also increase for India and other Asian countries.
Chitika Ad Types
Currently Chitika is having three types of Ads
Text Ads – Text Ads are simplest form of ads like you have seen in adsense. They are displayed only when somebody comes to the site through search engines, so the ads are displayed relevant to the user search query which means a higher chance of conversion.
List Unit – They are extension of Text ads and can adjust its height according to your site design so that there are no blank spaces left behind. You can specify the number of ads being displayed in the list Unit.
Mobile Ads – These ads are displayed only for the traffic or users coming from mobile devices. By integrating them to your site you can earn extra by monetizing the traffic for the users coming from mobile phones or similar mobile devices.
Chitika Apps Ads – These are new type of ads that do not require any extra code to put on your website. They can be enabled in the Domains & Apps section of your Publisher’s Dashboard Panel. They can only be seen if you already have Text Ads / List Ads code installed on the particular page.
All these types of Ads are very easy to integrate on your site. Generate the ad code for the ad type and copy / paste the code on your site.
Types of Chitika Apps
Linx – These are in-text ads just like infolinks and kontera.
Hover – These ads hover on the bottom right corner of your site and they stay in the same position even if you scroll the website page up or down.
Highlight – When you copy and paste some text on the page then the users will be served an ad on the basis of keywords selected in the process. These ads will only appear if you highlight any text on the website page.
Chitika Interface
Chitika User Interface / Publisher’s Dashboard is very clean and simple. You will get your earning reports daily which shows you the number of impressions, number of clicks and earning.
Payment
Chitika is very prompt in the payment process. They pay on net 30 days basis and their payment threshold for payment through PayPal mode is $10 and for check it is $50.
Final Thoughts
At last I only want to say that Chitika is best pay per click advertising network out there after Adsene. If you have good quality search traffic to your site and want to earn extra money besides other ads networks that you have already on your site then don’t think and sign up for Chitika now.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR CHITIKA
hello
I signed with chitika. I generated ad code and copied it but how would it be paste, I don’t know. if you help me. I would be glad.
thanks
Just copy the code and paste it in your website html where you want to show the ads. Are you using any CMS i.e. WordPress, Drupal or Static website?
Hi Akshat
Can you tell me how much is average CPC for US and Indian traffic ?
Also is it compatible with adsense?
The CPC varies according to the content or keyboards but it offers very good CPC for US traffic as compared to Indian or Asian traffic. Just an approximation for CPC for US traffic is $0.25 and for Indian traffic $0.05. And yes it is compatible with adsense.
Yes they really pay well for US/UK traffic and they pay well if you become a gold publisher for them
Last month I sign up for chitika publisher account. My two website were showing pending gold level application. But Now I am not able to signing in Chitika publisher Account. I don’t know why chitika not showing last 30 days my account update? What’s wrong with him.
They can be irritating sometimes. I advise you to contact their support in this matter.
I had tried using media.net , but their RPM is low but good customer support. Adsense is the best one . Media.net and Chitika also good , I had received payments from them.
Regards
Ashley Jones
crazyask.com
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