How to Make Money Blogging with Chitika – Part I: Premium Ads
In the past few months, I have hinted at ways that one can make money with a blog. But I haven’t gone into details as far as the services that I use to monetize my own blog. If you have noticed, I am not a big fan of Google Adsense. It’s just not right for a lot of blogs. Even though you can optimize the look and feel of an Adsense unit and make a decent amount of bucks per each click, it feels cheap and is often not interactive enough (as far as ads are concerned). While I am not not a heavy Chitika user either, I take advantage of it more often than Google Adsense.
Chitika is a great way to monetize each and every page view. Chitika Premium Ads are a great method to make money with your SEO traffic. Every-time someone makes it to your blog from Google, searching for a specific topic, he/she is presented with a set of ads that are highly targeted and based on the keyword phrase searched to get to that specific page. So if you are searching for “green laptops,” Chitika ads will show you ads that are either about green laptops or related to it.
What I love about Chitika ads is the fact that you can use them in conjunction with Adsense ads to make even more money per visitor. And best of all, these ads collapse into nothing (if you choose that option) for your non-SEO traffic. I personally like that feature as it allows me to show a different set of ads to my non-SEO visitors and more targeted ads to my Google and Yahoo! traffic.
How To Set up Your Chitika Ads
There is no way to guarantee a specific level of income with Chitika ads. But you can always test things and improve your results by optimizing the look and feel and position of your ads. Setting up your Chitika Premium ads is very easy. Once you choose the size of the ad you want to display, you are provided with the option to choose the behavior of your ads. I recommend choosing the “collapse” option, but you can always test the other options as well.
You also get a chance to customize the look and feel and even define channels per ads. I strongly suggest you do define your channels as that would allow you to figure out which ad is bringing you the most revenue.
Just like Google Adsense, you don’t want to over do it with Chitika Premium ads. At the same time, if you are getting a lot of SEO traffic to your blog, there is no reason you can’t earn decent bucks from your blog without introducing intrusive ads to your site. The fact that your direct visitors won’t be able to see these ads (if you choose to show your ads that way) is a big plus.
Stay tuned for the second part of this list to figure out how to use Linx to make money with Chitika.
