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!

We received hundreds of submissions for our AdSense + Chitika Ad Placement Contest this year, thank you to all who entered!

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:

HowToBecomeSomething.com
AskTheBuilder.com
TheEasyRecipe.com
Natural-Stone-Interiors.com

Please review the links above and vote for your favorite here:

*VOTING IS NOW CLOSED- WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED*

And the websites chosen as the runners up are:

ComputingUnleashed.com
AntonAmoto.com
EnvironmentalChemistry.com
InsideMyLaptop.com

Please review the links above and vote for your favorite here:

*VOTING IS NOW CLOSED- WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED*

*UPDATE: This Contest Is Now Closed* Finalists announced here

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.

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.

*UPDATE: This Contest Is Now Closed* Finalists announced here

We at Chitika are quite fond of search engines: since all of our ads serve only to search traffic, they’re our bread and butter in the online world. So with Microsoft’s new Bing decision engine making so much noise, we thought we’d take a closer look at the clickthrough rates of visitors from the three major search players: Yahoo!, Google, and Bing.

As it turns out, Bing users are over 50% more likely to click an ad on your site than Google users. You can check out the full results of our research in TechCrunch’s article, “Are Bing Users Twice As Likely To Click On An Ad Than Google Users?” Enjoy!

Are you using Google AdSense as an alternate ad to display when a Chitika ad cannot display (for example - in non-supported countries, or for non-search traffic, etc.)?  If not, then you do not need to even bother reading this.

However, if you are using AdSense as an alternate ad in a Chitika ad, then you will need to make a quick change to your alternate ad setup.

Google changed the way AdSense is served and it now MUST be on a page with proper HTML coding.

HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO MAKE SURE YOUR ADSENSE ALTERNATE AD SERVES CORRECTLY:

1. Open the .HTML file that contains your AdSense code with Notepad or any other text editor.
2. Place <html><head></head><body> before your AdSense code and </body></html> after the code - for example:
   

   <html><head></head><body>
   
   <!--ADSENSE CODE GOES HERE -->
   
   </body></html>

This will ensure that your AdSense alternate URL will display properly.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly, leave a comment below, or post in our forums.

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:

* Google/T-Mobile G1 Android phone
* Blackberry Storm
* Apple iPhone 3G

RUNNERS UP - 2 runners up will receive $200 each

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”.

***UPDATE***: The contest is now closed. Winners