Chitika Overview & Guide : Contextual Ad Network For Blog-Sign up Process

Chitika Overview

After creating a blog or website, everyone wants to know how to make money from this blog or website. Actually it is not an easy process. First step you are taking is that apply for Google adsense. But most of new Bloggers are rejected from Google adsense, because of different reasons. Briefly it is  due to the following reasons

Even though you have sufficient  content, you must have good amount of organic search volume. Organic search means traffic from search engines with non paid. And primarily good amount of traffic from US, UK and Canada. Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through your pages and find the information they are seeking.

Due to disapproval you are going for Google adsense alternatives. The first result you will get as Media.net is the best alternative for Google adsense. Because it has good CPC and CPM rate compared to Google adsense. But again you are rejected from Media.net due to different reasons. So you are going to other alternatives. Form my point of view the best Google adsense alternative is Chitika, after the Media.net.

Chitika is a 100% legit company and is free. The Chitika is a contextual ad network which meant it shows ads relevant to the content of your site. Chitika is one of the most popular display advertising networks in the world and is a best Google adsense alternative. The Chitika gives you better CPM rate compared to other CPM ad networks like propeller ad, pop ad etc. The approval process is very simple. The payout threshold is minimum, that is only $50 is needed. If you are a newbie blogger and have a blog with less traffic, Chitika is going to be one of those premium ad networks which will show quality relevant ads.

In order to get maximum revenue from Chitika you must have good amount of traffics. Because it is a CPM ad network, you will get revenue from impression only. You can use Chitika with Google adsense. 

Most advertisers avoid domains hosted on free hosting providers like Blogspot, Tumblr, Wordpress, etc. Even though your domain have high quality domain, but low quality website. Due to this, the largest advertisers choose to avoid the entire domain.

CPM-Cost Per Mile(Impression)

CPM-Cost Per Mile(Impression) is amount you get per 1000 impressions.

For example your CPM is $1, it means that you will get $1 from 1000 impressions.

That is for 1 impression you will get 1/1000=$0.001. If your site has got 2000 impressions in 1 day, you will get revenue of 2000*0.001=$2.

So that if your site has less traffic your revenue will be smaller. At that time CPC-Cost Per Click ads are best. But to get CPC ad from providers is difficult.

Chitika CPM rate

The CPM rate of  Chitika is high. You will get CPM from $0.0000 to $2. Values may change according to your traffics.
Here are the main factors that will affect your earnings per 1000 impressions  

1. Quality of Your Content
If your site has high quality content that advertisers find appealing, they bid higher for your ad spots which leads to higher CPM. 

2. Scale of Your Site
The advertisers mostly prefer website with large number of contents. 

3. Country 
The more traffic you have from USA, the better your performance will be. In addition to this traffic from UK and Canada is also increase your earnings.

4. Ad Formats
Larger ad formats like 300x250 and 160x600 tend to perform better.

5. Viewability
Make sure your ads are seen. Improve the viewability of your ads and your earnings will increase over time. The most preferred position is header.

How to get paid
You will need to meet three criteria before you can receive payment from Chitika.

1. You must fill out your tax form
2. Your earnings balance should be more than $50
3. You have setup your Payoneer account in Payment Settings and the account should be Active.

Revenue Reports

You will get revenue reports daily. You will also get graph for your ad performance  includes Date, Impressions, Active view viewable, Blocked, No bid, CPM, Revenue.

Chitika Ad types

The types of ads that are offered by Chitika has high quality and good user experience. The different ad formats for Chitika are.

1. The recommended format is 550x250 MEGA-unit
2. 160x600-Wide skyscraper
3. 300x250-Rectangle
4. 320x50-Mobile banner
5. 300x600-Half page banner
6. 720x90-Leader board

How to apply for Chitika

Before applying to Chitika you need to remember the following thing.

Read their eligibility criteria 

Sign up Process

1. Go to https://chitika.com/
2. Click on sign up button 
3. Enter your email address in the box and click Go button.
4. Fill up you personnel details and website address and click continue.
5. After that you will get email notification in your registered email address like your application is almost complete. Click the button below to complete your application and start using Chitika Ads right away. Click the Complete My Application button in the email.
6. After that you automatically enters  into Chitika.com.
7. Then you will get ad code and you need to paste this code in your website.
8. Wait for the reply. You will get reply as your domain is approved or not.
9. Finish.

Conclusion

The Chitika is very simple and you can make lots of money from Chitika.