Monetize Your Blog Easily With Chitika (search engine targeted advertising)
November 9, 2009 by Karissa
Filed under Info You Want to Know
We can’t all be Dooce or The Pioneer Woman whom both seem to have advertisers knocking down their doors. If you are a blogger, you know just how hard it is to make a little extra money. I know right now, I make a teeny teeny amount from Affiliate ads. Not even enough to cover a percentage of my shipping costs.
Well let me introduce you to Chitika. It is a search engine targeted advertising program. What this means, is that once you have Chitika installed, your readers will not see, but traffic that finds your blog via search engines will. This is to cut down on annoying ad space that readers may not want to put up with. I made $4.98 on Friday. Friday is not normally a very busy on this blog AT.ALL.
Watch this short (and sorta old) video on Chitika.
Another great point? You can use it in conjunction with Adsense!
After you sign up, you will see that the have several helpful hints. Like ad placement, how to install, and what size ad to use.
There is also an video on youtube showing how to install Chitika on WordPress.com. All you need there is the Chitika Plug-in. But before you install that, make sure you sign up!
Sign up, forget about it, and just wait for money to roll in! I also suggest using either one of their Mega Units. Those are a name for the size of the ad, the bigger, the better in the fact that more of your search engine traffic will see it, and hopefully click on it.
I would greatly appreciate any stumbles, diggs or tweets for this post! thanks! I hope you have much luck!
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Wow, I did not know about that up to the present. Thx.