Announcing the Winners of the AdSense + Chitika | Premium Placement Contest

December 22nd, 2008

17 comments

Posted in: Chitika | Premium, Contests!, Front Page News

Ladies and Gentleman - we have your winners!

After carefully reviewing all submissions (blog comments and email) we have chosen one grand prize winner to receive their choice of:

• Google/T-Mobile G1 Android phone
• Blackberry Storm
• Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb

And 2 runners up to receive $200 each!

GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Donald Yeck of www.DoItYourself.com

The forums at DoItYourself.com are 100% text-based - no graphics at all!  Since Chitika | Premium shows images next to the ads, it provides a nice visual “flare” for his site (and needless to say - the CTR on these ads is quite high!).

Here is what his users will see who come to his website from a search engine:

And here is what his page looks like when a user comes to his page NOT via search engine:

You can see from these shots that the Chitika | Premium units add a nice variety to his layout, which not only is pleasing to his users, but it also puts additional revenue in his pocket.  ;)

The 2 runners up who will receive $200 each are:
www.PurseVillage.com
www.WoodFloorDoctor.com

Congratulations to the 3 winners and thank you to everyone who entered the contest! Subscribe to The Chitika Blog here so that you don’t miss out on your chance to enter & win our next contest.

17 Responses to “ Announcing the Winners of the AdSense + Chitika | Premium Placement Contest ”

1. 
   Ankit Says:
   December 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 am

   Great article!!! I will definately have to look into all the ideas you have given.

2. 
   Professional Lab Says:
   December 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 am

   Congrats buddies!
   Sad. I am late to participate. :(
   Chitika, please keep making this kind of contest, I am comming soon…. ;)

3. 
   SATISH -- Technotip.org Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 3:08 am

   Congrats guys,,

   Chitika, please please keep such contest for the NewYear 2009.

4. 
   RISHI - YetiWebSoft.com Says:
   December 27th, 2008 at 6:19 am

   Congratulation to the winners. This kinds of programs of Chitika makes it more curious.

   Whats the next program?

   We are waiting for new program like this…

   Thanks.

5. 
   sharabob Says:
   December 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

   How was the owner of forums at DoItYourself.com able to remove the border and search tab for the ad?

6. 
   Chitika Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm

   Sharabob,

   To remove the search tab simply add the following line of code to your Chitika ad unit (anywhere after the line with ch_client but before the line with /script):

   ch_nosearch = 1;

   About removing the border:

   This is a feature that we have been testing out with a few of our users and requires enabling on our end.. some users have requested it to support and in which we have set it up for them. It requires a settings change on our end and then you have to add a line of code to the current code on your page.

   We are not sure if/when we will be making this a permanent feature for our users in the code setup. But as soon as it is, we will be announcing it here (on the blog) first.

7. 
   Fresh Niche Says:
   January 14th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

   I don’t like to be critical but doesn’t it seem a little wrong to give the prize to one of the very few publishers who has been allowed to customize the look of their ads?

   I really think the ‘do it yourself forums’ would NOT look anywhere near as clean if they we’re forced to use the same format other Chitika publishers are…

8. 
   Ryan Says:
   January 15th, 2009 at 11:21 am

   @Fresh Niche - I completely see your point here.

   However, do know that even if the doityourself.com forum was using the standard version of Chitika | Premium, they still would have won, for the exact reasons that I gave in the post above:

   1.) They are a completely text-based site, and the images on Chitika | Premium make it stand out visiually.

   2.) The ad is setup so it is the very first thing that users see - A big huge box at the top of their content. Fantastic placement, and it shows with the great CTR that these guys get.

   I do appreciate your point, but I want to be very clear that the format of their ads had nothing to do with our team’s decision on the contest winner.

9. 
   Fresh Niche Says:
   January 16th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

   ;-)

   Thanks for the update Ryan. Look forward to the next contest.

10. 
    AdSense + Chitika | Premium Contest: Win a Google Android G1 phone, Blackberry Storm, or iPhone - The Chitika Blog Archive Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 pm

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12. 
    ÞÕÕ ÌäÓíÉ Says:
    March 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    sry i just know how to write my name in arabic :)) anyway however my english not that good but i think i get the point. thanks

13. 
    Techkran Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 7:02 am

    i’m eagerly waiting for your next contest.

14. 
    techhours Says:
    June 15th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    What is captcha code?, pls provide me captcha code codes or plugin, Thanks in advance.

15. 
    Terry Says:
    June 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 am

    There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.

16. 
    The-Tidy-Girls Says:
    June 28th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    Great read, nice post :)

17. 
    DeeDee Says:
    July 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    Thoughtful post and well written. Please write more on this if you have time.

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