Chitika: Not just products anymore

Filed under: CPM Programs, Cash Cow — Tags: , , — kiviniar
13 May

I just love this year.

Every ad vendor is coming up with better performing ads and making money is a whole lot easier for website publishes. In just a couple of months I have tested some great display ad options and well my site income has seen atleast a 35% increment with these new ad options.

The latest being Chitika.

I have been with Chitika for sometime now. They provide product units as ad options and pay on CPC basis.

I am happy with the network but the only problem in maximizing these ad units was that in my niche not every site visitor was looking for something to buy (p.s.These units work best of tech blogs, gadget, product reviews, etc).

But just got this great news from Chitika. Chitika has just released their first non product based unit that is integrated in the new Chitika premium ad units.

So basically instead of just seeing shopping ads, you will actually get non product ads.

However, before you use this ad option remember that you should only consider using them if you have a considerable traffic coming from the U.S.

A little info on Chitika Premium from the Official Chitika Blog :

What is this? A smart, personalized targeting ad solution that provides premium content. This ad unit is CPC and is designed to be your highest performing ad unit (eCPM).

Who should use this ad unit? Chitika | Premium ads are a great fit for any website with any type of content including finance, travel, sports, etc. If your website gets a lot of U.S. traffic, then Chitika | Premium ads are a perfect match for you.

When will this ad unit display on my site? Chitika | Premium ads will only show to U.S. traffic, and since they are behaviorally targeted they will only display to SOME U.S. users. When your Premium ad unit does display for a visitor it will show them advertisements they are interested in (because, after all, it’s behaviorally targeted).

What happens when Chitika | Premium does not display? The ad simply collapses into nothing. You can show an alternate URL in it’s place.

So how do you preview this ad unit?

You can preview in 3 steps:
1. Paste the code up on your site.
2. In your address bar add
#chitikatest=mortgage to the end of your page URL.
3. Press ENTER then Ctrl + R to refresh your page.

This will show you what the ad would look like to a user who is interested in “mortgages.” You can replace “mortgages” with your keywords to view other ads, just make sure you then REPEAT STEP 3.

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Update: Just a question that I asked support

Can Chitika Premium be used along with Google Adsense?

* Since the release of our flagship ad unit eMiniMalls, Chitika has always provided products and services you can use in conjunction with other services. Thats right - we have no restrictions for using Chitika products with any other revenue-earning ad units on your website.

We’ve received many questions from users asking if Chitika | Premium can be used alongside Google Adsense on their pages. Chitika | Premium is not a text-ad; it’s an interactive, image-enabled widget that is non-contextual and behaviorally targeted. Because of this, you should be able to use both ad units on your page together without being in violation.

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Voxant Newsroom CPM rates for March

Filed under: CPM Programs — Tags: , — kiviniar
1 Mar

The Voxant Newsroom CPM rates for March have been announced.

Text Story, Image or Slideshow = $0.50 per thousand impressions (Previously $1)

Video Feed or Video Story = $3.50 per thousand impressions (Previously $3)

These rates are not fixed and hope to see a better CPM for April.

If you would like to know more about Voxant, then read the review here: Voxant Newsroom Review

If you need any clarification on the program, leave me a comment and I would help you with the issue.

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Can I win an iPod shuffle, my love affair with Voxant

Filed under: CPM Programs, Contests — Tags: , , , — kiviniar
21 Feb

Yes, this is definitely my favorite CPM programs (just wish they had a direct referral :-( ) and I am falling in love with it by the day.

So here I receive a mail regarding a contest they are running for the last week of the month. (p.s. This is a generic mail sent to all the better publishers)

Angela from Voxant here! In going through user impression reports, we ran
across your site ­ and wanted to say thanks. We think your site is great and
we¹re so pleased to see that you¹ve been active in our network and want to
make you aware of an incentive program we¹ll be running during the last week
of this month that you are eligible for.

From February 24 ­ March 1, we¹ll be giving out iPod shuffles to the top
three users in the following categories:

1. Most total impressions

2. Highest % increase over previous week¹s impressions

We¹ll automatically include you in this program ­ you don¹t have to do
anything, we¹ll track your impressions. Good luck!

Thank you, as always, for being a member of the Voxant network. Feel free to
contact me with questions.

Angela

Angela E. Lauria
Director, Long Tail Marketing
Voxant, Inc.

Yes, I am impressed and with a few dozen sites with good traffic I will see if I can be among the top three publisher. However, I would be targeting the second prize category.(Just need to move around my content for making some Voxant space)

If you have a site with good traffic, I suggest that you consider them.

This is by far the best CPM Network, which doesn’t bar your site for the need of minimum stats. Everyone is free to join and make money.

You can read my first review here: Voxant Newsroom

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Voxant, the numbers are in

Filed under: CPM Programs — Tags: , — kiviniar
18 Feb

I have had them for exactly 12 days and now that I crossed a small milestone, I thought it best to share my earning stats.

Voxant is the best CPM network that I have joined and if you have a site with good traffic then I would highly recommend them to you.

I am running their widgets on three sites and I am almost at $10 per day and hope to push that to $30 per day now that I plan to use them on my other sites too.

The only disadvantage with Voxant widgets is that they need quite a lot of space.

But if you can accommodate them like I  did then it will work very well.

Voxant pays a flat rate based on CPM (per thousand impressions) and also for their text and image content widgets, you donot need any kind of clicks to generate a commission.

You can read my initial review here:  Voxant Newsroom

On my program rating scale I have give them a 5/5

These stats are for 6-17th Feb

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Performance Check #1

Filed under: CPM Programs — Tags: , , — kiviniar
6 Feb

So I have some stats to share with you regarding a few CPM programs I joined.

One day stats for Voxant Newsroom

Note*The Voxant content is added on two of my sites, so these earning are cumulative earning of both the sites.

Video Revenue: $0.00 (0 Ad Imps.)
Image Revenue: $1.33 (1334 Ad Imps.)
Text Revenue: $0.89 (893 Ad Imps.
Video Feed Revenue: $0.32 (107 Ad Imps.)
Total 1 day earning: $2.54 (2334 Ad Imps)

Not bad for a day’s earning as this compliments my regular PPC (Adsense, WidgetBucks, etc) earnings. And since I can see good figure I hope to use it more aggressively.
p.s. To generate the income on text and image content, you DONOT need to get any kind of ad clicks.

Read my review here: Voxant Newsroom

First Stats for NetAudioAds™ Pay-Per-Play

So finally PPP has started showing their publisher income stats.

Here are mine and don’t have much to say as I would like to monitor it for atleast a week before I can make a conclusive comment.

Also, I quite don’t understand everything on my reporting panel.

For now the figures are:

Hits: 7723

Ads: 232

Income: $0.78

I guess I should give them a while as it is just a startup and it can be a while before everything settles down.

Read my review here: NetAudioAds™ Pay-Per-Play

If you have any questions or something to share, we would be more than glad to hear your thoughts.

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