Google promoting Chitika?

[Jafar Calley]

Have you guys seen the adsense ads promoting Chitika? They even poke fun at adsense calling it Madsense and bearing slogans like the pic i attached below.
What's it all about?
In the end though it's about as useful to me as PSA's. My new site is a single page, high volume site. I've had clicks from it before, but these ads for Chitika do nothing since it's not a webmaster's page :(

[Des]

Yeah I saw the ad aswell... Is it run by Chitika itself or someone else?

And what do you mean by not a webmaster page?

[dzcap]

What's so surprising about it? You see clicksor running their program on adwords all the time.

[subigo]

Chitika didn't make that banner.

[dzcap]

yeah, it could be someone marketing for them for that 10% referral bonus

[Des]

Yeah I expected that...

[Jenstar]

That is an affiliate ad - see the teeny tiny "affiliate" written in the description.

Chitika just released banners for affiliates to use, but that is not one of them.

[Jafar Calley]

And what do you mean by not a webmaster page?

I mean it's not an SEO or traffic generator or somesuch site. The audience is work from home people, not web designers.

I was just surprised that Google approved of ads that were so scathing of Adsense.

[Arnie]

This how the chitika referal banners look like in basic, different sizes though. But people can put their refereal code on to everything. (https://chitika.com/mm_overview.php)

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[Haichi]

Is running ads for referrals against Chitika's TOS?

"Affiliates may not promote the "tagged" links via promotion on third-party search engines. Specifically, paid campaigns or SEO campaigns that link directly to chitika.com using your referral id."

[Haichi]

I'm seeing chitika google banner ads with refferal ids

so you can do this? not against the TOS?

[oziii]

It is against Chitika's TOS