Chitika Review - Best Adsense Alternative 2016

Everyone wants to make money with his site and everyone wants to get adsense. But that feels so bad when you not get adsense and most of them just give up. Don't give up there are still more options for monetization.

The best way is to head over to google adsense alternatives. Chitika is now I think the one who pays more than any other adsense alternative but obviously not more than adsense. In past chitika not as good as now and it had very low CPC and CPM rates but now after they updated there service the total game has been changed.

Why use Chitika?

Now may be there is question popping in your mind that why you use chitika? So, that's why I am going to tell you some pros of it here. I not say it has all pros and not have an con that's why I also going to tell some cons of it.

Higher CPC and CPM Rates than others (except adsense :P)

The first thing which will make you towards chitika is its higher CPC and CPM rates. The average CPC rates of chitika are ranges from 0.1$ - 0.60$ for standard user and upto 3$ for Golden user.(I have discussed more on standard and golden member below). Yes i agree with you that it has not too high rates but I bet with you that these are higher than any other adsense alternatives believe or not. 

Can Make More Money if you have traffic from USA/UK/Canada

Don't be silly! Traffic is the first need if you want to earn some decent income from your bog. If you are receiving good traffic from countries like USA,UK or Canada then you may get more cpc than average for which I tell you above for both standard and golden member. You can get traffic from these countries by submitting your site on local directories of these countries, or also from stumbleupon and reddit.

Minimum Payout of 10$

This is one of the best point for newbies and for those blogs who not have good traffic. They can easily reach this payout of 10$ and not have to wait for to compete 50$ or 100$ like other networks. Anyone can easily reach this payout. 

Can be used with adsense

If you already have an adsense account then I don't think there is more need of any other advertising network but if you have some empty ad spaces then you can fill them using chitika. Good one is that you can use chitika along with adsense. I recommend you that if you have placed all three adsense ads then only one chitika ad place. And also not use other chitika apps.

If you not banned from adsense then you can again apply for adsense account. For this the following answers of questions will help you a lot:

• What are necessary things to do before apply for adsense?
• How I get adsense account approved after disapproval?
• 8 ways to get adsense account approved

Instant Approved!!

The another upside of this network is that you don't need to be wait for approval before you start displaying ads. You will become able to add ads as long as you sign up.Means you not have to worry for approval or disapproval and not have to wait for days like other advertising networks.

Cons of Chitika

Everything is not perfect in this world and everything have some cons same case with chitika. Along with its good things there are also some cons of it which degrade him a little bit.

1. Very low rates for those sites who not have most of the traffic from USA,UK or Canada. But this is not a big problem if your site is in English language and also not based on local niche then you can also get traffic from these countries.
2. Ads of chitika will clutter your site if you not adjust them in right way. Don't worry I also tell you how to overcome with this problem. Wait...

Get Started With Chitika

I hope that the above explanation is enough for you to decide weather or not you use chitika or not. Well, if you make up your mind and ready to make money with chitika then here I guide you how to get started.

Sign Up for chitika

The process of sign up is very easy and not require any rocket science for it. Simply:

• Goto Chitika Signup Page Here
• Simply enter your email address and click on go.
• You will get an email from chitika to verify your email and for further process.
• Open email and click on the link in the email.
• Complete the whole process of signing up. The process is very simple you can easily do this. So, come to next point.

Creating First ad unit

• After sign up now head over to chitika account and login. And click on ad >> Get code from menu.
• Now head over to ad code generator. and select the size of the ad. There is huge list of ads sizes ranges from skyscrapers to little mobile ads. Choose any one from them which you think can be fit  your site
• Now take a look on the ad style. Give colours to ads same like your site template have. By this the ads will blend in your site and looks somewhere good.
• After it click on get code and copy the code and add it on your site.

Apps of Chitika

One of the other best feature of chitika is that it has some default apps. You can access these apps by going to Ad >> Settings >> Default Apps. Chitika have three apps which are:

1. Linx is the intext ad units. You can choose if you want to use this or not. If want to use this ad unit then turn the button to ON. The ads are automatically start displaying in your content text according to keywords. The add looks like a hyperlink with double underline.
2. Hover is the ad unit which hover at the bottom right corner of the page and stay fixed. It stay at right corner even when user scroll down. There is also option to close that ad. I recommend you not to use this ad because this will clutter your site.
3. Highlight is the ad unit display when any visitor highlight any text in your site. The ads are based on the keywords which are highlighted and disappear once the user unhighlight the text.

Payment Methods

Chitika don't have enough options to withdraw your payments but it gives you your earning via paypal and check. So, if you have paypal and provide email of it there. If you don't have paypal account because of your country not supported by paypal then you can also get paypal account  

Chitika Gold level

When you sign up your account is standard but you can also become gold level. The level is for domain to domain. Level will be given to domain not to user. Means gold level ads only display on approved gold level domain.

Criteria to get  Gold Level

To get gold level domain approved the first thing you need is 5000 impressions per day from US search engines only. If you think that you have this then you can apply for gold level. For more information regarding this follow these links:How to get gold level

Avoid Chitika from cluttering your site!

The one downside as I tell you above is that its ads will make your site cluttered and users feels difficulty to browse your site. This happen when you not put ads in right way. Here are some tips to avoid chitika from cluttering your site:

• The first thing as I tell you above not use the hover app of chitika.
• Use only 3 - 4 ad units per page.
• Use only 1 bigger size ad unit and other 3 or 2 are of smaller or medium size.
• Don't place all ads at start of the page.

Final Words

I hope that this is enough for you to get everything about chitka.com site. I try to give a brief review of chitika and cover all the questions regarding chitika but if you have any more questions then I am here. If you like this article and show a little generosity and share it on social media like facebook, twitter, stumbleupon and on other where you like.