Archive for May 14th, 2008

Chitika Now Has Ads Compatible for All Websites

That was the message I received yesterday in my inbox from Chitika.  They previously offer website and bloggers the options of displaying ads that historically include products.  So a person might see an ad for a printer somewhere, click the ad and go buy it.  The website owner would benefit from this on a cpc basis typically.

That was great if you ran say a gadget blog or a auto blog, but if you wrote a political blog or a finance blog it was pretty useless.

Well these days they are offering up a new and improved advertisement market that caters to websites of all shapes, sizes and topics from travel to finance, sports and more.

So now if you have a topical blog about places or concepts, they might have a performing ad that could make a good fit in your monetization scheme.  They still seem to not be a contextual advertising company like Google and Google’s adsense program, so theoretically the two programs should play nice together without violating either set of terms of service.

So if you are running a diet and exercise blog, you might pick up some more revenue from advertisements for Phentermine no prescription as opposed to trying to convert your readers on the latest MP3 player from some techie shopping site. It does seem like an improvement, and as the ad channel fills up more it will probably be a better fit. The trick with these things is to strike while the new ads are hot, but not too soon before the new ad formats are fully tested.

Good luck and hopefully you will benefit from more revenue. I say that not wanting the internet to be spammier, but I do want more people on the internet to be more succesful so they can afford to put more time and attention into generating better and more content.