While Chitika Premium only displays to search engine traffic, Chitika Select will be displayed to a select group of your non-search traffic as well.

How does Chitika Select work?

Chitika Select will display ads on your site based on user’s intent. When Chitika’s “click prediction engine” says there is a “high probability of a click”, an appropriate advertisement will be displayed. Otherwise, Chitika Select will collapse entirely without leaving any blank space.

The following is the comparison chart of Chitika Premium VS. Chitika Select

Click here to apply for Chitika Select

What you need to know about Chitika Select

• Same as Chitika Premium, Chitika Select still can be used together with Google AdSense on the same page.
• All current Chitika Premium ads will be automatically upgraded to Chitika Select beginning March 8th, 2010. You don’t need to do anything.
• Chitika Select ads will show both Pay-Per-Click and CPM image/banner (pay per impression, whether a user clicks or not) ads.
• You can disable Chitika Select by adding ch_select = "disabled"; to the Chitika code block or vice versa.
• Chitika Select only works for US and Canada traffic.

My two cents

It happened that Chitika announced Chitika Select after my Chitika Premium testing (read “how to make less money with Chitika Premium“).

With CPC and CPM ads, Chitika Select is very similar to Google AdSense, except that Google AdSense is contextual ads but Chitika Select is not.

Since it is not contextual ads, Chitika Select ads difficult to be relevant to your website content. It’s all depends on the Chitika’s Click Prediction Engine to select the best earning ads for your site.

I’ll test Chitika Select and let you know the result.

Click here to apply for Chitika Select

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Info: Chitika Premium search target advertisements which can work together with Google AdSense. Sign up here.

AdSense vs. Chitika Premium

I was using the combination of Chitika Premium (450×90) and Google AdSense large rectangle (336×280) under the blog post title.

The combination seems ok but the earning is not up to my expectation.

With Chitika’s recommendation, I applied the super large Chitika Premium MEGA unit (550×250) just right below the page header. The Chitika earning had a boost but greatly affect the AdSense earning…

OK. How about not apply Chitika Premium at all?

As soon as I removed the Chitika Premium from my blog, the AdSense earning had a boost and the total is even more than the previous combination of “Chitika Premium + Google AdSense”!

What I learned from the test?

Most of my blog traffic comes from search engines and Chitika Premium should work well. However, the Chitika CPM is lower than Google AdSense. Therefore, even with the BIG Chitika Premium MEGA unit (high click-thru-rate), the earning is still lower than Google AdSense.

So, Chitika Premium is useless?

No. It was a simple test of a few days and every site is different. You should test on your own sites to see the result.

I’ll still apply Chitika Premium but the best ad placement spot will be reserved to Google AdSense, at least for the moment.

What works now doesn’t mean it will work forever. We should always do testing, testing, and testing.

Sign up Chitika Premium now to make money from BOTH AdSense & Chitika.

Learn how to make money with AdSense and Chitika.

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What is Chitika Premium ads?

Chitika Premium ads is non-contextual ads which only appear to a visitor that visit your website FROM a search engine. The visitor’s search query will be highlighted in Chitika Premium ads and relevant ads will be shown.

What’s in the free Chitika Premium ebook?

In the free ebook, you get the examples of good placement of Chitika Premium along with Google AdSense ads (Yes, you are allowed to put them together on one page!).

You will also learn the importance of customizing your ad links to your website links, and how to do that on Chitika Premium ads.

Click here to download the free ebook.

My two cents

“Chitika & AdSense: Ad Placement Guide” is a simple and easy ebook. The most important thing in the ebook is the example of Chitika Premium + AdSense implementation.

I have been inspired by the examples and you should too!

You need to be a Chitika publisher to start making money with it. Click here to register now, it’s FREE!

Free Ebook: Chitika + AdSense Ad Placement Guide is an article from: LiewCF Tech Blog. For more updates, please follow @liewcf on Twitter, join Facebook page and subscribe free newsletter.

Here I show you how to fill the W8 form if you are located outside the U.S.

1. Login and visit Chitika W8 form page
2. Fill in your full name in the “Name of Individual or organization“.
3. Fill in your country in the “Country of Incorporation or organization“.
4. Tick “Individual” for “Type of beneficial owner“.
5. Fill in your address in “Permanent residence address“, “City or town, state or province“, and “Country“.
6. Under “Part 2: Claim of Tax Treaty Benefits“, tick “a. The beneficial owner is a resident of [your_country] within the meaning of the income tax treaty between the United States and that country.“.
7. Tick in the “Part 3: Notional Principal Contracts“.
8. Under “Part 4: Certification“, fill your full name in “Signature“.
9. Fill in “owner” for “Capacity in which acting“.
10. Click “Submit information” button and you are done!

The submitted form will be reviewed by Chitika in 1 business day.

Sign up Chitika and start making money online today!

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Chitika RPU is one of the most best performing ad units of Chitika network. RPU is a list of text links of related products according to your page content. Because it does not look like an ad, it generally receive high click-thru-rate (CTR) thus making good money.

For existing Chitika publisher, you will see “RPU Code” tab after login Chitika. You can choose your RPU unit size, colors, product category, set channel tracking and grab your code.

Not a Chitika publisher yet? Sign Up for free now and start making money!

Chitika RPU Now Available for All Publishers is an article from: LiewCF Tech Blog. For more updates, please follow @liewcf on Twitter, join Facebook page and subscribe free newsletter.

Chitika Sphere, previously members-only forum, is now opened for public registration. The Chitika team will review your site for free and tell you how to get more revenue using Chitika products. You don’t need to sign up for Chitika program first.

Chitika optimizations experts will tell you:

1. Would Chitika have a chance to earn you revenue?
2. Which Chitika products you would benefit from?
3. Which Chitika placements earn you the most?

To get the free Chitika optimization tips, you only need to register at the forum and post your website in the Chitika Open House forum.

Make money with Chitika »

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I hope you will enjoy reading the article and tell me what do you think. Please read the blog bash articles by other *real* experts too!

Also, you could win a Nintendo Wii by playing Chitika BlogBash “Match the Expert to the Title” game. Good luck!

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LiewCF on Chitika Blog is an article from: LiewCF Tech Blog. For more updates, please follow @liewcf on Twitter, join Facebook page and subscribe free newsletter.

Each of the 30 bloggers will write an article for Chitika Blog on various interesting topics on blogging. The blog bash will be launched in April 2007 on Chitika Blog, one article per day. Make sure you don’t miss out any one of them!

My two cents

It is my honor to be invited as one of the thirty bloggers! Man, my blog is listed together with other famous, popular blogs in the world! OMG!

Hopefully my submitted article will be interesting to you. Oh, I have to keep the topic as a secret for the time, as reminded by Chitika team.

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• Use 468×180 banner — the best performing ad unit for most bloggers.
• Keep Chitika above the fold — this is the golden rule for any ad placement.
• Remember heat map — Chitika suggests to avoid placing ad units at the very top banner ad spot and the left sidebar for maximum performance.
• Targeting — learn what your visitors are interested in.
• Related Product Unit (RPU) — so far, this is the best performing Chitika products for me.

P.S. I just received another cheque from Chitika today!

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“When it comes to enforcing policies on third-party contextual ads, we’ll be following the updated program policies instead of the T&Cs on this point. That is to say, publishers may now display other contextual ads on the same site or page as Google ads as long as they don’t have the same look and feel as our ads,” Brian Axe tells Jennifer Slegg of JenSense.

Brian Axe is the senior product manager of Google AdSense Team.

Meaning, AdSense publishers now can run other contextual ad programs such as Chitika eMinimalls(contextually targeting products), and Amazon Omakase Contextual Links on the same page with AdSense ads.

More income sources for publishers, and more targeted ads for readers.

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