Increase Your Blog and Writing Income with Chitika

What is Chitika?

If you write online for your own blog, website, or revenue sharing site, you can increase your online passive income by placing Chitika advertisements along side your articles. Pronounced "CHIT-icka," Chitika ads are one alternative to Adsense, yet you can still place Chitika ads and Adsense units on the same page. This allows you to get the maximum use from your ad space. Chitika units have excellent click-through rates, and many writers and bloggers report that the click-through rates are better than Adsense. If you want to make more money writing online, here are some quick facts about Chitika and how to increase your revenue.

Which Writing Sites Allow Chitika?

Chitika is growing in popularity, and many article directories and croud-sourced revenue sharing sites are give writers the option to incorporate Chitika ads into their articles.
Revenue Sharing Sites:

• Infobarrel.com
• Seekyt.com

Blogging Platforms and CMSs (Content management systems):

• Blogger.com
• Wordpress.org (not Wordpress.com)
• Drupal.org
• Joomla.org
• Every other CMS that allows you to insert JavaScript

Basically, you can add Chitika units to any static or dynamic website that you own--that is, you have paid for the domain name and hosting. If you have a free domain and free hosting, your host may restrict your ability to place ads, so read the terms of your agreement carefully.

Chitika Ads are Seach-Targeted

Chitika advertising units are search-targeted; they only appear when someone finds your site through a search engine link. Unlike Google Adsense ads, they are not contextually based, so if someone visits your page through a backlink, the Chitika units will not display targeted ads based on the text of your website. You can specify what happens to the Chitika unit if someone finds your page through a non-search engine link.

• Show nothing. The Chitika space will collapse.
• Show Chitika backfill. Backfill is a set of unrelated ads that may have nothing to do with your page
• Show a different ad. You can configure the Chitika unit to show an Adsense unit with your Adsense code.

If you get a lot of traffic to your blog or articles through search engines, Chitika can help you increase your revenue dramatically. If you get traffic mainly through links, Chitika may not work for you.  Ultimately, you will have to test it for yourself.

Ways to Increase Your Chitika Revenue

The best way to increase your Chitika revenue is to make sure your pages show up high on search engine results pages (SERPs).  Using good SEO techniques will draw more traffic to your website via search engines.  Remember, Chitika ads don't display relevant ad links based on the text of your webpages, they only display ad links based on the terms people used to search for your site.  Using meta tags, updating your site frequently, and creating backlinks to your webpages will help your site rank higher in Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.

Chitika Program Policies

Chitika's minimum payout is $10. The threshold is low so you can get payments more frequently than with Adsense.
Like Adsense, Chitika does not count fraudulent clicks, and if you click on your own ads, you will be removed from the program. Chitika ads are not allowed on pages with inappropriate content, such as porn or illegal drug use.

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