Comments on: Chitika Now Available For All Types Of Content Sites

By: Chitika Alternatives | Financial Freedom Ideas

Chitika Alternatives | Financial Freedom Ideas — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:44:34 +0000

[...] the introduction of a different business model, Chitika earnings have dropped almost 50% in my niche. It seems to me that most product based sites [...]

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:37:17 +0000

Hi Phil,

Thanks for sharing. Yes, my average pay per click has HALFED too now. I’m giving them some time to see if anything happens in the near future.

One similar service is WidgetBucks but I haven’t used them yet. You may want to find some reviews…

By: Jeremy Hier

Jeremy Hier — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:10:41 +0000

Thanks for the update, eMinimalls
was doing good on the few test pages
I tried. I was going to expand it.

In the meantime I’ll go back to adsense only.

Jeremy

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:42:36 +0000

Just as an fyi, I have spoken with the people over at Chitika and due to all of these changes they basically told me that they can no longer support their eMiniMalls which was the majority of my site’s conversion. In the end the advice I was given was to replace all of my ads with another ad service and leave up only the Premium ads at the top of the page.

I think I would have done this regardless of their suggesting it due to the fact that my revenue with them has gone down substantially! Not only do their ads only send my customers mostly to Ebay and Amazon, the cost per click is one third of what it used to be. I make around 1/4 the revenue from them that I did before all of these things started to change.

Tomaz, I’m glad to hear you are still having luck with them but personally, until they get the kinks out, I will be pulling away from Chitika.

Anyone have any better services I should check out?

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:30:47 +0000

Yes, Chitika is having some problems lately. Let’s give them a week or two to solve these problems before we all start sending them annoying emails.

By: Jeremy Hier

Jeremy Hier — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:16:23 +0000

Hi Tomaz,

All of a sudden Chitika has put non-relevant ads
on my site. Why are they doing this.

Jeremy

By: Yogi

Yogi — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:20:16 +0000

Thanks for this information Tomaz, now I can try Chitika on my content site.

After hearing you talk so positively about Chitika I definitely wanted to try but mine is not a product oriented site so could not. But now I definitely will.

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:32 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up, Ryan!

Ryan also explained to me today that the CPC is up to the advertisers who can determine on which sites they will pay a lot for the click and on which they won’t.

It’s all about conversion into sales. If you have a good conversion (clicks converting into sales), you will have a high CPC.

Good conversion is under your control – presell the customer with quality reviews!

The CTR fluctuations MAY depend on which provider Chitika assigns you (some of them are Shopping.com, Pricegrabber.com, …). Some providers don’t show the exact products you want to promote and some better ones do.

Again, Chitika assigns you a provider depending on the quality of your site.

So the end result – good CTR and good CPC – is actually in your hands. So let’s get back to work now and make y(our) sites even better!

By: Ryan Travis

Ryan Travis — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:50:29 +0000

One other thing -

We have seen best results with Chitika|Premium ads when they are placed directly above or below your article titles (so that they are close to your content, above the fold).

By: Ryan Travis

Ryan Travis — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:40:38 +0000

Hey everyone – Ryan from Chitika here.

One thing that is being confused here:
Chitika|Premium Ads are NOT the same as Paid Graphic Ads.

Chitika|Premium ads are PPC ads that will ONLY display to the part of your traffic that we can use our new behavioral targeting engine on (we call this your “Premium” traffic). Our publishers who are using this unit are seeing fantastic results with this so far.

Paid Graphic Ads are CPM ads – these pay on impressions, not on clicks. This is a TOTALLY separate program from our Chitika|Premium ads.

Phil & Mark – I am interested to see how you are using Chitika right now. I am happy to give you some tips on how to make the most of the new Premium units. Feel free to send me an email at ryan[at]chitika[dot]com and I can look at your sites.