Best Ads for Blogs

Many people have come to me asking, what are the “best ads for blogs”. A year ago i would have probably said, adsense, i’m not so sure now. I have a slew of blogs and adsense is increasingly getting worse. There is one ad company that has been getting better though and has actually become my primary way of monetizing my blogs. I joined Chitika in June 2009. I was looking for a different way to make money from my blog at the time and really didn’t know anything about them. So, i set things up, put a few units on my site and was pretty amazed at the difference.

Chitika units work extremely well for US traffic, especially coming from search engines like google. Clickthrough rates are much higher than adsense because chitika will only show ads that are targeted to what the user typed into google to get to your site! Awesome right? They have tons of unit sizes and also allow you to hid the border so units can be integrated perfectly into any site.

Now, I make a pretty good amount from the basic and mega units they offer but i really make a killing with their Linx program. Linx is basically ads that are put into text as links. When a user clicks, i get money. It’s simple concept that has doubled my earnings so far.Chitika also pays via check or paypal. The best ads for blogs is, hands down, Chitika.

So, if you’re interested in making some money, and i know you are, go ahead and give it a try. I’ll be honest, if you signup using the link below, i get 10% of what you make but you get 100% of what YOU make so you have nothing to loose. It even says it in the referral program.

Sign Up for Chitika!

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Only 2% of Internet Users actually click ads!

MARLBOROUGH, 11/18/2009 – Only two in 100 people who browse the Internet actually click on the advertisements that fund websites, according to a new report by online ad network Chitika. The study, based on the actions of 86 million Internet users over a two-week period, helps illustrate the value of an individual “clicker,” and the vast business potential that remains untapped for website owners and advertisers alike.

During a two-week period in October, Chitika monitored ad clicks of a sample of 86,683,507 anonymous individuals throughout their 60,000+ publisher network to determine what percentage could be classified as “clickers.” During the two weeks focused on for this study, 1,863,710 of the anonymous individuals actually clicked on an ad at least once, for a 2.15% “clicker” rate.

Chitika has long championed the idea of knowing when not to show ads, claiming that by being able to accurately predict a user’s likelihood to click, the online advertising world can become at once less intrusive and more effective. Replacing old-media theories of advertising to demographics with predictive targeting towards the people most likely to act on an ad appears more and more viable with improving technology, and can go a long way towards helping online advertising dominate its traditional media counterparts.

About Chitika
Chitika, Inc., is a search-based online advertising network, leading the way in intent-based advertising and search engine insights. Chitika provides publishers with an innovative way to monetize search engine traffic, and advertisers a new way of generating leads with clear consumer intent. With over 60,000 sites and 2 billion monthly impressions, the Chitika network is the pulse of the online world. For more information, visit http://chitika.com