My first 4 days with Chitka I have sent them 391 clicks and have accrued $4.16 in earnings. That means they are paying barely 1 penny per click. I had heard from others that earnings with Chitka were low but this is ridiculous.
As you probably know, you can't convert from click to CPM. For CPM you need to know earnings and impressions.
Chitika pays very well only for USA traffic. Where are your traffic coming from? Focus on getting USA traffic and you will bank in good amount for sure.
About 25% of the traffic was from USA and the rest from other international. But it was still almost no money. Is this because I don't have a gold account?
Chitika sucks big time. I hardly see anyone here who has made money from Chitika. Have you tried infolinks? It has better advertisers and targets almost all the countries. They pay for asiam, african traffic as well.
Yes, I like infolinks. For these particular sites I need something with banner ads. Does infolinks do anything like that?
This is rather strange to me. Where is the location of the majority of your visitors? The only clarity I can come up with is that you have low quality clicks, which means that your visitors are not of value to there advertisers. This can happen due to bad ad placements, such as placing it in a location where the visitor assumes he or she is clicking on a link rather than an ad, and than when realized its an ad, just closes the browser. The second is that your visitors residence is in country that does not have high quality ads.
Thanks for commenting. I mentioned above that 25% of the clicks come from the USA/Canada. The rest of them come from France and Germany and the sites are in those languages. The ads are placed prominently above the fold. I now have 8 days of earnings. There have been 67,613 impressions (great traffic), 599 clicks and only $8.70 of earnings which is something like 1.25 cents a click.
With what you are telling, this is not a great deal for you. It just looks like chitika is not for you. I suppose Adsense is out of the question than. You can always try buysellads but you will have to do a bit more work. but the value is higher and you dictate the prices. Or you can consult with the advertisers. Good luck, I hope it works for you.