What type of websites is Chitika looking for? 1) Forums 2) Blogs 3) Amazon or Ebay style affiliates stores 4) Personal pages 5) Club or fan sites 6) Directories 7) Stores
Product review sites would work great... Any thing geared around products, since that is their specialty.
my directory gets me 1-3 clicks a day on it... right now im working on a mp3 player review site... should bring in some clicks.
I've been working on a new technology website with targetted ads, but frustratingly, all my clicks have come from elsewhere. The most unlikely of places actually! I guess I will have to wait until the site is properly indexed in search engines?
My popular mobile phone blog got rejected and my general chat forum with 10 times less traffic got accepted. I cant see their logic behind it but im happy im in.
Product sites are best at the moment, IMO. Visitors already arrive at your site looking for something and chances are high that you have an article of what they are looking for - especially if they arrive via search engines. Sprinkle in a good dose of pre-selling in your article and hook the visitors into a buying state of mind. Then they will click on the ad no matter what tweaks chitika does for now simply because they wanna buy something. Once through, it's up to the merchant to put in the sales pitch - but that's not your problem, you have already done your part and gotten paid for it
I would think product sites would be good as well, though my Playstation blog site has extremely poor Chitika CTR. Seems I've done everything right, blending colors, no borders, products relevant to the posts where possible. Tried several different placements, no beans. In nearly a month I've a whopping $7.75. Yeah I know, don't spend it all in one place.
Just to let you know Gary99. Xbox 360 ads are up now on Chitika so you may want to add one to your blog. I stuck the xbox 360 keyword on the chitika in my Faster Geek blog. It wasn't an xbox 360 ad at first, but yesterday it appeared there. I will have to wait and see if it generates some interest and or a high paid click.
I think it's a good idea to use keywords for products that are close to launch even if you don't get the ad you wanted straight away. I knew the 360 would pop up sometime soon. Maybe Chitika noticed that a lot of publishers were trying the xbox 360 keyword and decided to start getting advertisers for it.