Google Adsense as Alt URL for Chitika Premium

May 20th, 2008

10 comments

Posted in: Front Page News, PPC Ad Units

Chitika users have noticed fantastic things going on in their accounts lately; one example is that our new behavioral targeting technology has resulted in an excellent boost in CTR and eCPM. As a result, we have not only integrated this into our new Premium ad units but now this new technology can be found in all our ad units - eMiniMalls, MPU, RPU, etc. In the past few weeks this new type of targeting has proven to be extremely effective in helping you to earn higher revenues.

Chitika ad units were known in the past to work best on websites that centered around consumer products or were product-related. If you were hesitant to use Chitika on your website because your site didn’t fall into a consumer product category, then there is great news for you. Our new ad unit, Chitika Premium, caters to websites and blogs of all types not just product-related. Instead, it serves content ads related to topics such as travel and finance, to name two examples:

What everyone needs to know about Chitika Premium
Because this ad unit is “behaviorally targeted” it does not display on websites as our other ad units would; only when it can display premium ads specifically to a visitor to your page. All you have to do is paste code on your site to integrate the unit just like any other; however viewing it on your page will not be as simple as “save and refresh”. While there is a preview tool you can use to view how your ad unit will display, this still leaves you with what to display when Premium cannot target your visitors’ interest:

Here are two great revenue-boosting options:
1. Place the Chitika Premium ad code where you currently have no other ad unit on your page(s). So when it does not display, it will simply “collapse” and show nothing at all.
2. (Recommended) Place the ad unit in prime locations on your page, such as near your blog/article titles or within the content of your page with an “alternate URL” ad as a backup, so Chitika Premium can earn you great revenue when displayed and supply your space with another ad when it cannot so you are continuously earning revenue.

Setting an alternate URL for Chitika | Premium is easy. Follow these steps for using an alternate ad such as Google Adsense, in the event your behaviorally targeted Chitika Premium ad unit cannot display.

Not a user? Sign up for Chitika Premium here!

10 Responses to “ Google Adsense as Alt URL for Chitika Premium ”

1. 
   Keyser Soze Says:
   May 26th, 2008 at 4:02 am

   Stats for my PREMIUM traffic
   Last 7 Days eCPM: $0.00
   Impressions: 936
   CTR: 0.00%
   Revenue: $0.00

   Oh yeah! Are these the “fantastic things going on in my account” you are talking about?
   My CTR, eCPM and total revenue is going down because of this. I am going to remove all Chitika ads from my website if you dont stop this. I dont need your “premium”-crap with 0.00$ eCPM or your “paid graphic ads” with crappy 0.04$ eCPM within the last 4 weeks!

2. 
   Ryan Says:
   May 27th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

   Hey Keyser Soze -

   Are you using Chitika|Premium ads? If so, where are they placed on your site?

   We have seen that people who place the Chitika|Premium ads near their article titles (directly above or below) are seeing very, very good results.

   If you’d like, I can work with you to make sure these ads are optimized correctly for you. Hit me up at ryan[at]chitika[dot]com and I’ll help you out.

3. 
   Ramzy Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 6:53 am

   Hi,

   I’ve more than one chitika ad on my pages. If I try to place chitika premium with an alternate url, I see all oher chitika ads on the page also pointing to the alternative url.

   How can I restrict the alternative url for Chitika Premium only and not other ads like eminimalls or rpu.

   Regards,
   Ramzy.

4. 
   rodel Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 10:15 am

   just got back with chitika after hearing updates.. man! for a week i already naild a few $$$.. haven’t tried premium thing though.. but works fine with me..

5. 
   Ryan Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

   @Ramzy -

   That definitely does not sound right - that should not be happening.

   Can you send me a link please? Send it to ryan[at]chitika[dot]com.

6. 
   rohman Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

   very very funtastic thanks

7. 
   Rebates Says:
   June 1st, 2008 at 12:41 pm

   No ad Matching the page.

8. 
   xsan Says:
   June 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 am

   ok, iam very interest, i have ??dolar from adsense. now, i will try this.

9. 
   shanX Says:
   June 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am

   Trying premium ads on a site from today…

   Something is totally wrong here. You cant run Adsense as an alternative for Chitika premium ad units. Coz according to the method provided by you guys, when we load the Adsense unit, it is loaded inside an iframe and it is loaded on a blank page that has no content and only has the Adsense ad code. Afaik it is a clear violation of Adsense TOS, which in turn could get our account banned. But Chitika could overcome this issue by offering a server-side solution maybe.

   So I assume title of this blog post is totally incorrect ;)

10. 
    Ryan Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    @shanX - That information is completely incorrect.

    Adsense is being used as an alternate for many programs around the internet (most notably for CPM programs).

    Also, the Adsense code can detect that it is being run from within a iframe and capture the URL of the page it is running on (so google has designed adsense to run within iframes).

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