I have been using Adsense for about a month now, on my blog. I have been approved by Chitika today. Chitika says that I can paste their customised code into each blog article of my choice. If I use Chitika, then am I violating Adsense's terms of usage? Why? I have seen some blogs that use both? Confused. Please advise.
The Adsense TOS states that you're not allowed to "display other contextually-targeted ads or links on the same page as Google ads".
I would check with Google. Personally, I think you should be able to display both, and here's why I say that. 1. The chitika ads don't look anything like adsense ads. 2. You can actually tell chitika what to display (i.e. you don't have to let it automatically choose based on context), so theoretically, you could display non-contextually-targetted ads. I'd check with Google, but I think they'd be wrong to say that you couldn't display both. Not that my opinion matters.
Google does not allow it. I'd emailed them a week ago. Before this, I had Chitika and Adsense on the same site too. Although chitika looks different from adsense, its still contextual ads because its base on keyword. Ask about performance, although I didn't get much clicks, but the EPC is very high. Averagely about $1 per clicks so you can easily get more than $10 per day. But then again, since google does not allow it, I'd to remove it from my site but plan to use at other site that adsense not performing well.
As an update - Adsense and Chitika, is a No-No. See my post - http://personalwebsiteblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/adsense-and-chitika-no-no.html -
you can't use the normal chitika ads - but you can use their 'mini-malls'. I reviewed it here and included an excerpt from an email from Google giving me permission to use the mini-malls if they have the contextual part disabled. Hope that helps.
oziii, I am interested and certainly don't mind signing up under you but can't get the link to work for the moment. It says Operation timed out. Maybe there are so many DP'ers signing up now that it's fritzed Chitika's sign up page. I'll try again later but though maybe you'd want to check it out.
Yep - they had a deluge of new applications at once as well as doing a server update that meant some couldn't sign up. The ads kept working but the admin area wasn't accessible while they upgraded.
Just an update - I have started using Chitika's Mini Malls along with Adsense and the earnings are good. I am manually targetting the Chitika ads.
My concern was about that: Originally Posted by yirmumah "We appreciate your following up in this matter. Unfortunately, according to our program policies, Chitika ads may not be displayed on your site. We do, however, allow affiliate or limited-text links. Google AdSense program policy does not permit Google ads to be published on the same web page as other contextually-targeted ads. More broadly, our policy does not permit Google ads to be displayed on the same website as ads that mimic or attempt to be associated with Google ads. For publishers participating in AdSense for search, please note that we do not allow other search services or query-targeted ads to be displayed on the same site as AdSense for search. Our intent with this policy is to be as fair to our advertisers as possible and to maintain the integrity of the AdWords and AdSense programs. For additional questions, please visit our AdSense Support site at https://www.google.com/support/adsense or feel free to reply to this email if I can be of further assistance." Does that mean we can either have google search or chitika? Both seems to be against G's TOS. None contextual with adsense on a page seems to be OK. Any more info on that? run non-contextual and nosearch Code: ch_non_contextual = 1; ch_query = "keyword1, keyword2"; You may also hide the "Search" tab in Chitika ad by adding this line: Code: ch_nosearch = 1; If you have google search on one or more of your pages means you must disable search using the code from above. Is that OK now?
If you read the update to my blog entry, you will find ProBlogger's URL which states that we can use Adsense and Chitika's Mini Malls, provided you target the ads manually. I have the following code in one of my blogs - var ch_queries = new Array('chess', 'adsense', 'search engines', 'java', 'j2ee', 'advertisement', 'publicity', 'blogs'); var ch_selected = Math.floor((Math.random() * ch_queries.length)); ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected]; ch_non_contextual = 1; Hope this helps.
One important thing I forgot was that if your readers are from China or India, then their clicks are treated as invalid and you will not get any credit for these clicks. This is unfortunate.