Agree 100%. From what I saw more competition - higher payout. But, as everyone know, CTR is in that case much lower. Memory sticks, mp3 players, dvd players.. Products that have a hunderts of manufacturers have very high payout. So, choose: lower CTR with higher paying keywords - good for quality content sites - that make visitors stay longer, or low paying products with high CTR.
I went to shopping.com, and selected the most expensive mp3 players, dvd players and plasma screens for the ads. One day and 3000 impressions later, I got a mighty 1 click, and 6 cents.. time to rethink my strategy
you could put ads about airplanes or ferraris... but if they aren't targeted to your visitors you will never get a click
I will offer up the keyword Acne - pays $1.41 If anyone finds a high paying beauty or hair related product - let me know
try this: go to amazon and look for the top sellers - whichever catergory that fancies you. Stick it into your chitika and see what the next day and 3000 impressions bring...
No, search tab is disabled. maybe I should put it back? I think the next thing to try is to go for bestsellers (as izahan suggested) instead of expensive products, hopefully that works better.
I would certainly try popular products related to your site topic. This has worked for me even tho they may pay a little less per click but they are clicked more so in the end pay more. I am now in the process of adding higher priced items to see how they fair. I have seen higher priced items not pay as much per click as lower priced items as well.
I've figured out a really good formula and I'm getting some really nice CPC-- unfortunately, I'm not goig to share the info publicly, because you'd have people collecting the info and selling it in an ebook a week from now, and that would annoy the crap out of me. I can say this though--- a good thing to think about is.... what STORES advertise what products and chances are, if they payout well on one product, most of their products will, regardless of the price. Especiallly the smaller retail sites.
How it works out? Does Chitika pay per click or calculate the cpms only after a click on ad. Can anyone guide me? I have not yet understood the working.
I have still not been able to understand that how chitika fixes the rate. is it click per ad, or there are some relationships with the CPM also. What I have seen is CPM comes into the picture, and then the site only calculates the pay on the basis of CPM and clicks.
If you all want to see eCPM, Clicks, Impressions and revenue, then please use chitika new login interface: publishers.chitika.com here you can see your revenue along with clicks, impressions and eCPM.