This year we decided to have YOU, our readers vote for which AdSense + Chitika ad placement was best integrated together in our annual AdSense + Chitika placement contest.
After hundreds of submissions, Chitika’s Special Projects Team narrowed it down to 8 finalists - you can see them here.
Our Grand Prize Winner of a Playstation 3 Slim + NFL Madden 2010 is:
Tim Carter, AskTheBuilder.com
We really liked Tim’s integration of AdSense at the top, Chitika Premium in the right hand sidebar and Premium at the bottom of his articles. While sometimes the sidebars are not always successful ad placements, Tim made it work to his advantage- Great job Tim!
And our 2 runners up who will receive $200 each are:
Kenneth Barbalace, EnvironmentalChemistry.com
Anton Amoto, AntonAmoto.com
Ken perfectly customized his AdSense and Premium ad units throughout his site. With a Premium ad unit at the top as well as in the sidebar and AdSense complementing nicely above his comments.
Anton used an AdSense square above his titles and a Premium Mega Unit below them. The links were all customized as well making for a nice sleek integration.
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! And a big thank you to all who participated. Be on the look out for our next contest!
This year we have decided to narrow it down to 8 finalists and have you vote for our grand prize winner who will receive a Playstation 3 Slim + NFL Madden 10, and 2 runners up who will receive $200 each.
The finalists in the running for the grand prize are:
Our AdSense + Chitika Ad Placement contest is back again by very popular demand. Last year we had over 300 submissions to this contest with some really great ad integrations of Chitika Premium and Google AdSense on your websites.
This years’ grand prize winner will receive:
a Playstation 3 Slim + NFL Madden 10
And 2 runners up will receive:
$200 each!
Chitika and AdSense can work very well together on your site to bring you a combined higher revenue than using one of these services alone. Some of you have received this higher income because of your thoughtful integrations of these two types of ad services so we have decided to reward you for being so smart!
What are we looking for?
We want you to show us how you use Chitika Premium ads as well as Google AdSense on the same page(s) of your site, in which it helps give you higher revenue than you would using just one of the services alone. Here is an example of Chitika Premium and Google AdSense being used on the same page:
How do you enter?
Post a link to the page on your site in which you feature both Premium and AdSense in the comments section of this blog post. Or, please email your submission to specialprojects (at) chitika (dot) com, with the subject “AdSense + Chitika contest”.
Your entry must include both a Chitika Premium ad and a Google AdSense ad on the same page. Only one page is necessary for entry. Entries must be received by Friday, September 18, 2009- 11:59pm EST.
Hello Chitika friends and neighbors, we’ve got an exciting announcement to make - we’re giving away five Dell Mini 9 Netbooks to new Chitika | Premium publishers! Here’s the deal - you’re eligible to win one of the netbooks if you:
1 - Sign up for a Chitika | Premium ad account between today (8/17/09) and the end of August (must sign up before 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, August 31st, 2009), and…
2 - Earn at least $50 through Chitika | Premium between now and the end of September.
Publishers, if you’re not on the Chitika bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? There’s never been a better time to try Chitika | Premium, the search-based ad network that turns search traffic into revenue for you! Join the over 50,000 publishers making money with Chitika | Premium!
And to our existing publishers, this is a great way to use your affiliate links! Remember, whenever you refer someone who signs up for Chitika | Premium, you earn 10% of what they earn for 15 months. They earn, they might win a netbook, and you earn as well!
So everyone repeat after me: “Make money money, make money money money!”
Once again, Chitika managed to uphold their reputation for thinking outside-the-box by putting one of our Chitika-ites in an owl costume at SES NY 09. He was featured in video interviews filmed by me, @KarlaChitika during the conference (which will be featured on the blog very soon), as well as put a smile on everyone’s face who came to the Chitika booth.
SearchAppalooza Mania!
Tuesday afternoon many gathered in the Grand Ballroom for our much anticipated SearchAppalooza ‘Search Apps Contest’ where 5 finalists presented their apps to Jennifer Slegg (CEO Jensense.com), Larry Cornett (VP Search Yahoo!), Rob Griffin (SVP Search Marketing MediaContacts), and Don Dodge (Business Development Emerging Business Team Microsoft Corporation).
All of the apps were really great. If I were judging it would have been a very difficult decision, but the judges (who are clearly more thourough than I am) found some flaws and a winner was closen rather fast. The winner of the “Kick-ass Search App Contest” was:
The coolest thing about Tom’s app was how it created a way to take, otherwise unsearchable, video content and convert it into searchable text. This could ultimately make way for a whole new outlook and marketing perspective centered around search content in video. Amazing!
**The SearchAppalooza video will also be featured on the blog early next week- so be on the lookout for that, which features all the presentations from the app finalists.
Twitterers also had the chance to participate by Tweeting their favorite app finalist to be in the running for a Kindle2 sponsored by Chitika. That winner was:
And lastly, Chitika hosted their near-legendary, 3rd-Annual “Cookie Eating Contest” at the end of SearchAppalooza to win an HP 1000 Netbook. Eleven contestants gathered to eat as many Oreo (double-stuffed) cookies as they could in 2 minutes. There was a tie! 12 cookies ate by two people (who would of thought)- so they then challenged eachother to a Oreo face-off. In the end, 18 Oreos was consumed by our winner! You can watch it all go down in our video here:
Send us a note if you are coming–we are offering all Chitika friends 20% off SES full conf passes, and free exhibit passes.
What’s in store?
Our SES “SearchAppalooza” workshop will feature Chitika’s “Kick-Ass Search App” contest…“Think American Idol for developers, with Yahoo! and Microsoft as the judges.” Read more…
Stop-by our SES booth (#230) and meet “Hooty the Search Owl” –a 6′4″, fluffy owl who loves to play frisbee.
Can’t attend?
You can win cool stuff & watch SearchAppalooza from your couch.
SearchAppalooza Twitter Contest for an Amazon Kindle2!
To enter, click here to post a SearchAppalooza tweet.
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. ;)
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.
IT’S ON! We have received over 300 submissions for our Adsense + Chitika Premium Contest. And no wonder, besides Chitika being a stellar addition to your Google Adsense revenue, we are giving away some pretty amazing prizes:
GRAND PRIZE - Winner will receive their choice of:
So hurry up! This contest ends Sunday night 12pm EST.
How do you enter? Show us your best integration of Google Adsense and Chitika Premium ads together on the same page by submitting your URL in the comments of this blog post, or by sending an email to “specialprojects [at] chitika [dot] com” with the subject “AdSense + Chitika contest”.
We’re giving away 1 of this year’s hottest phones, along with $400 cash in this Adsense+Chitika | Premium placement contest!
Since one of the best ways to earn the most revenue is by using AdSense and Chitika | Premium together on the same page, we thought we would hold a contest to see who has the best AdSense + Chitika | Premium setup.
What do you mean by AdSense + Chitika | Premium setup?
We mean anywhere on your site where you are running AdSense and Chitika | Premium on the same page. For example - look at this screenshot:
What are the Prizes? There are 3 prizes: GRAND PRIZE - Winner will receive their choice of:
Google/T-Mobile G1 Android phone
Blackberry Storm
Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb
RUNNERS UP - 2 runners up will receive $200 each
How do I enter?
You can submit your entries by posting a link to your site in the comments below, or send an email to “specialprojects [at] chitika [dot] com” with the subject “AdSense + Chitika contest”.
All entries must be received by 11:59 pm US EDT on Sunday, Dec. 21. We look forward to seeing what you all come up with!!!
If you don’t have Chitika | Premium code yet, you can grab it here. Also - if you are unfamiliar with Chitika | Premium, you can learn how it works here.
Spread the word about this contest and earn revenue!
You can link to this page with your Chitika referral ID and earn referral revenue from people who sign up. Just use the link below, and substitute “username” with your Chitika username: http://chitika.com/blog/2008/12/12/adsense-chitika-contest?refid=username
***UPDATE***: The contest is now closed. Winners announced December 22nd 08.
The Chitika Premium Interesting Placement Contest began Oct. 30th, and since then we have received over 100 contest entries from our users! We were so very impressed with many of the placements we saw that it made it very hard to choose only 3 winners - big thanks to everyone who participated.
First place: $100 Winner - Elran Oded, co-founder at Indyish.com
Elran did something really cool.. he placed the unit so that it’s actually integrated within his first paragraph text. Users who come directly to his website will see a normal paragraph of text but those coming from a search engine will see a large Premium ad unit with the text wrapping around to the side of the unit.
Here is what Indyish.com looks like without the Premium ad unit:
And here is what Indyish.com looks like with the winning Premium ad integration:
A BIG thanks again to all our users who sent in their Premium integrations!!
This was not Chitika’s first contest and this will definitely not be the last! We love attending/hosting events and we really love giving stuff away for free. Subscribe to the blog now to be sure you don’t miss out on our next contest giveaway.
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