you all probably read my post about the exciting news - Chitika Beating Adsense last month. This month, Chitika is  not doing so great. It is still performing better than any other ad service (except adsense) but now the income is about 1/3 of google adsense.

I am hoping to see an increase soon!

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Chitika beats Adsense!

Hello All,

Chitika Beats Adsense

1. The Pay Per Click rate is MUCH MUCH higher than Google Adsense. (10 clicks in Chitika gives you 1 USD on average, very rarely the Pay Per Click in Chitika is less than 5 cents; with Google Adsense, very rarely it actually crosses 5 cents).
2. CTR is low in Chitika Mini Malls is probably due to improper positioning of Chitika Mini Mall ads and source of traffic (as not all countries are not supported by Chitika Mini Malls).
3. With time the PPC from Google Adsense has been dropping for many of my sites. Sometimes they jump a little bit. However, for Chitika Mini Malls, pay per click has never come down but always increasing at a super steady rate.

1. Adbrite ( extremely disappointed)
2. Bidvertiser (extremely disappointed)
3. Adsforinfians (disaster)
4. Adsense (Happy in some sites, unhappy in others)
5. Ads2click (Disaster, low pay, very low CTR)
6. Kontera (Good pay 2-3 cents per click, high CTR)

Click It

Before I say anything, let me remind you all that there is nothing better than “Quality Content” for any website. If you have quality content, your dependence on other sites is minimal. You will always get good reward for your hard work to publish your own content.

However, even when you have great content, you may need some additional works to make your site more visible to the world. You can do too many thing. I have tried many and in this article, I will only point to few ones that do not consume too much of time and are proved to be very useful to me.

1. Link Building : Link Building is tricky. It also takes time. If you have a low traffic site, your request for approving a link is often denied. So, start link building with sites where you many have one of your friends as admin or moderator. You can spend too much of time to find email addresses for each site owner and write emails, but I recommend that you try other methods first. Once your site is popular, you will be receiving “add link” requests very often.
2. Directory Submission: Well this one is too much discussed but probably does not really very well unless you are going for PAID listings from Yahoo or so on. There are too many directory listing site and most of them requires authentications and has some long forms to fill up. Even after working hard for numerous directory listing websites you may find that only few of them actually approve your listing. Big waste of time. In addition to that you will start getting too many emails from the directory listing websites about how a “Paid” submission might work wonderful for you! Just do one time Submission to DMOZ and forget about other directory listings.
3. RSS publishing: Now, this is something you can do to promote your site immensely. If you have some of the CMS software/Blogging software based site such as Wordpress, Drupal etc, they have RSS capability included already. Just go and submit your site to some of the major blog listing directories. They are much better than the Directory listing providers.
4. Social Network Site Submission: There are many social network type link submission sites. The best is Digg.Com. Write your articles, go to www.digg.com and submit your article - few clicks and you will see wonderful results. You can try few others such as Stumbleupon etc.
5. Engage Visitors: Have a small comment form, or a forum where your site visitors can interact with you. This is too important. If you have a quality site, your visitor will recommend to their friends and families.
6. Send Emails to subscribed users: If you have subscriptions enabled for your website, do send some emails few times a month with some of the most important articles on your site.

There are traditional ways too that you should always follow such as adding “Title” tag, “Meta” tags and “Description” tags to all of your web pages.

Hopefully you will see a rapid increase in traffic if you are doing few or all of the above suggested tricks.
Ankan Basu

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I have been thinking about writing an article about the best free MAGAZINE style wordpress themes, but the NOTEPAD CHAOS snatched my attention!

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Chitika

Two days back I applied for Chitika Mini Mall PPC program. I am approved today. I will be experimenting with various chitika ad types in next few weeks. I will let you all know about the Chitika Performance in my websites.

If you are pleased with Chitika Mini Mall, please let me know WHY?

Ads For Indians

This article features some of the most important and best revenue options if you can not use Google Adsense or YPN and you have a site targeted to an Indian Audience. Before we start let us ask some questions.

• Do you have a site with major traffic from India?
  
• Have you tried Google Adsense?
• Have you tried Yahoo Publishers Network?

Even if you you site is not targeted to an Indian audience, you will still learn some because I am going to touch some other Ad Revenue options briefly.

First of all, there may be people angry with adsense, but ADSENSE is still the best ad revenue service existing today. They simply do NOT have any competitor. Yahoo Publishers Network may be the next best choice but they are in Beta Stage while we never heard about when MSN will finally launch their parallel program to adsense.

So, if you are rejected by Adsense, you are in trouble. There are other ad services such as:

1. Ad Brite
2. Bidvertiser
   
3. …..many more

I have mentioned only AdBrite and Bidvertiser because they are only two worth mentioning. With bidvertiser you have the nice option to receive your earnings via PAYPAL. However, for most of the websites your Click through rate is really bad so, click per revenue and over all income is way less than google. Biggest reason: none other than adsense got such a huge number of advertisers that mingle nicely with any kind of content.

Your best option here is go for Kontera.

Kontera is really in-line advertising and sometime they show too many ads in one page if you do not control the numbers of ads to be shown in each page, but they are pretty steady and better than Adbrite/Bidvertiser most of the time.

Well Now if you really have a Indian Site, you can have two more options:

1. Ads2target.com
2. Adsforindians.com

Adsforindians are doing business for quite some time. However they pay 2 or 3 rupees per click. While Ads2target is very new and still in Beta Stage but they pay only 1 rupee per click most of the time. CTR for both service is pretty low.

Adsforindians site is heavily advertised using Google Adsense and they show too many Trashy Ads. Ads2target on the other hand looks lot more professional and they have renouned partners such as

• www.anandabazar.com
• www.telegraphindia.com

as advertiser.

So, I would recommend using both and choose the one that is giving you better revenue. But if you have Google Adsense, DO NOT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.

You have more options like Chitika Mall, Amazon, Ebay Partner Network but I have not found any success in my sites targeted for Indian audience. I think Indian people still needs more time before they really start buying stuff online on regular basis.

If you enjoy this post, please leave a reply for me.

Thanks,

Ankan Basu

Page Rank

I have a blog on Wordpress at http://calcuttaglobalchat.net. Few months back I had PR 3. Suddenly I found that my PR drop down to 0. I panicked and had long discussion on Google Adsense Support forum. They said it is OK to use text link ads as long as you have “NO Follow” attibute for the links.

The good thing is the drop of page rank did not affect me site search engine positions. It is still doing as good as it used to do.

Only thing I am not sure is the adsense income. My income has been pretty low for the site, but low for a long time now. Not sure if it has anything to do with the Text Link Ads.

If there is anybody out there with some knowledge on Text Links Vs Adsense income, please share with us.

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