I know you want a free iPhone, or maybe a free Blackberry Storm for the new year. Perhaps even the new Google Android phone for Christmas. I know Santa is not bringin me any of those but you know who can? Chitika. They’re running a Chitika + AdSense contest on their blog, giving away one of those phones plus $400!
This is 100% legit so stop rolling your eyes at me ;)
Chitika Premium is a competitive AdSense alternative that can also display on the same page as AdSense without any TOS problems.
I use Chitika Premium ads on my site via the WordPress plugin. My revenue with Chitika is almost 3x that of AdSense over in the first half of December with exactly 2x the clicks. Remember: by no means have I spent any time optimizing my sites for revenue.
See Chitika Premium and Google AdSense running on the same page for search Traffic
AdSense still displays on my non-search traffic – but Chitika intelligently does not
Chitika’s eCPM has proven much higher for me than AdSense and the higher click through rate can really be attributed to a couple factors, which are important parts about what makes Chitika’s Search targeted advertising so effective:
- Chitika ads only show to my search traffic – so my regular readers who wouldn’t usually click ads aren’t bothered by the ads.
- Since Chitika Premium ads are targeted to the search query if my page isn’t a good fit there is more incentive to click on the Chitika ads because they are aimed to the search query not the content on my page.
So this contest:…
The grand prize winner gets their choice of one of the following:
- Google/T-Mobile Android G1
- Blackberry Storm
- Apple iPhone 3G 8GB
Also, two runners up will get a cash prize of $200!
If you are running Chitika and AdSense – put your creative had on and enter! If you are only running AdSense this might be a good enough incentive for you to go give Chitika Premium a shot.
You’ve got till Sunday, December 21, 2009 11:59 EST to enter! Hop to it!
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