I signed up for Chitika a few years ago and to be honest, I just hadn’t done anything with it. I didn’t invest time in learning the setup or even exploring the advantages. I just signed up, set up a few referral buttons and let it go.

It wasn’t until I got a notice that I had received a payment from Chitika that I even thought about looking into it further – but hey, if someone is paying me, I’m thinking if I made money for doing absolutely NOTHING, I wonder what I could make with a little effort.

Chitika is an alternative to Google AdSense Contextual Pay-Per-Click Advertising. I run Chitika on a couple of my blogs. It performs best on product related blogs, but can achieve good results on blogs such as this on also.

Here is a snippet from the Chitika Publishers website that contains two stats that show Chitika is a respected Ads Publisher:

Fact 1: Chitika has over 70+ power-packed revenue earning ad units, the largest collection of revenue-generating solutions catering to publishers of all sizes.

Fact 2: More than 17000 bloggers and publishers are already using Chitika’s ads to earn revenue.

Fact 3: Chitika passes over 50,000 publishers in June 2009

One of the greatest advantages to using Chitika is that you can use them on the same page as Google AdSense. This allows you to maximize the earning potential of your blog. Chitika tends to have a higher CPC than Google AdSense in alot of the areas I have used it in.

Since Chitika is still kinda sorta new to me, it will be a short while before I can give you much detail on profits – but I’d say $50 for absolutely NOTHING is something. What I can tell you however, is it is currently outperforming Google AdSense on two of my blogs and I’m only a few days into actually using it.

What you waiting for, You should sign up for Chitika Now!!!

Do share your personal views or experiences with Chitika and how it has performed or is performing for you.

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I may not be the brightest match in the box, but somehow I’m thinking page views are pretty darned important…

A ‘Page View’ by definition is a request to load a single page.

For the most part page views are only important for the role they play in a blogs revenue model. If a site earns revenue from advertising, then page views become an important part of their advertising pricing and demand.

If a blog only earns from actual sales, then page views are not an important statistic at all. In fact, page views lacking in sales conversions may even be considered an expense or loss.

However, I have read conflicting views that indicate that more page views could likely result in fewer click-throughs on ads. How, I’m not exactly sure — it didn’t quite make sense to me. So, PLEASE feel free to explain if it makes sense to you.

With keeping page views in mind and if you are one of those people who put effort into increasing your page views — I’d like to invite you to answer the following questions:

How important are page views to you and why?

What are some actions you take to help increase your own page views?

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Have you ever been visiting a website that’s focused on a very niche topic and glanced around at the ads to find the ads don’t relate to the content at all?

Perhaps I’m wrong and perhaps they serve as an impulse buy for some, but if I’m on a niche site for gardening and see ads for lingerie, I’m not likely going to buy my bloomers the same place I’m buying my bloomers — you know what I’m sayin’?

Maybe it’s the former retail buyer in my blood — but when I see off topic ads in prime sidebar locations, I feel the blogger may not have a true understanding of their reader or even what audience they may be trying to target. That in turn will keep me clicking my way right on out of that blog.

The one piece of advice I can offer up that might be most helpful in the long run is to test those ad space waters.

Place Google Adsense in that location and monitor the ads that show up in those spots. DO NOT CLICK ON YOUR OWN ADS — but DO run your mouse over the ad or try to figure out who is placing the ad. If it’s similar to your own topic, check to see if the advertiser has an independent affiliate program and explore serving up target ads that way.

• What are some of the lessons you’ve learned the hard way on ads and ad placement?

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