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Chitika: Search Targeted Revenue Model
Chitika is around for many years but to be honest I’ve just started to use this revenue model that chitika offers. I was aware of their service but I don’t know why chitika always focuses on advertising its so called “chitika premium ads” where I’ll review later on this post. Chitika offers 3 types of advertising models:
- Chitika Premium (eMiniMalls)
- Chitika WhiteSpace Ads
- Chitika Linx
When I checked my users resolution property from analytics, I realized that only 11 percent of my visitors are still using 800×600 resolution depth… And all others have higher resolutions. So I searched for a way to get some income from this white space areas shown to my visitors and in that search, I re-explored chitika, chitika white space ads. Then I started to use chitika products on my site and I am highly glad for this extra money coming in 
Here is the overview of Chitika services.
Chitika Premium (eMini Malls):
Chitika’s favorite program. Anyone who comes to your site via Google, Yahoo, etc., will receive an unobtrusive text ad based on the keyword they used to find you. Chitika Premium ads don’t show up to untargeted visitors like regular readers for example. Chitika Premium ads only show up on search engine traffic from USA and Canada. If your visitors are not coming from search engines and if they are not from USA and Canada, they will not see the ad (but you can show them alternate ads if you like to do so). Since the ads displayed are targeted to the search terms, the click ratio is high compared to other programs around so does the income
Chitika White Space Ads:
My favorite Chitika service is white space ads It is in fact just like chitika premium. The only downside of chitika white space ads is when visitors coming from search engine and if they are from coming from EU or Asian countries, intead of seeing nothing, they will see chitika white space ads floading banner though in chitika premium ads, they see nothing or alternate ads you want to be shown. Beside this lack of feature, chitika white space ads are just like chitika premium ads. If your visitors coming from US/Canada and coming from a search engine, the click through ratio will be really high and so does your income. If your users resolution is 800×600 pixel or lower, they will simply see no ads. To use chitika white space ads, there must be some white pages in your site template of course 
So if your site or blog uses a template that widens the content according to the users browsers resolution, you can’t use chitika white space ads for obvious reason: there is no whitespace!
Chitika Linx:
Chitika Linx is in-text advertising solution offred by chitika. Chitika Linx will automatically identify key products/keywords mentioned in the content on your website or blog and hyperlink (double underline) those keywords to interactive paid (CPC-based) product listings featuring best deals, offers and promotions from name brand merchants. When users mouse-over these links, a small bubble-like scroll over is revealed listing offers from merchants. Chitika linx in-text advertising solution gives additional revenue stream to you with no effort and no extra ad-space.
Although Chitika services are available worldwide, keep in mind that only if you have US/Canada visitors and search engine traffic, Chitika will improve your earnings 
The accumulated earnings can be cahed our via paypal (10$ minimum) or via check (50$ minimum). There is no requirements for traffic volume but your sites must be in English…
Hope you like chitika services and find it as profitable as I do
Sell Links via Teliad to Improve Pagerank
Teliad is a marketplace for advertisers and webmasters and bloggers to buy and sell links through their interface to improve pagerank for buyers and to get another income stream for webmasters and bloggers. Teliad is a German firm and accepts all international members without any country or language restriction. Beside that, teliad marketplace interface is available in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian. Alongside the consistent expansion and improvement of the product range, the current corporate strategy is aimed at growth. “Internationalisation is an important part of the corporate strategy. We are growing rapidly. The numbers of enquiries and registrations from new foreign customers have increased strongly during the past few months. However, it has been difficult up to now for foreign customers to find their way in the German marketplace. We are now very well equipped with German, English, Spanish, French and Italian and can reach a large target group. Through the English marketplace in particular we can reach customers all over the world. English is understood by a large proportion of web users, especially those who are involved in e-commerce. We are sure that we will grow quickly internationally. Even now, awareness of teliad already exists beyond the borders of Germany,” explains Andreas Armbruster, founder and CEO of teliad.
Teliad offers 3 types of income stream. First one is text link option to sell links to buyers who seek to improve pagerank of their sites. This is the simplest method to earn money also since you offer direct HTML text links in your websites or in your bl0gs without any content creation, just simple HTML text links. You decide where to link to advertisers websites from your site or blog, how long a text-link should be, how much money you want to earn to sell links and whether this link will be placed sitewise or just on some specific pages. For me, in my blogs, I prefer site-wise linking but for my specific pages or content, I ask special prices also. For example you may use this service for high page-rank articles or webpages as “content sponsors”…
The other income stream from teliad is to offer InLink advertisement. Inlinks are text links that can be booked inside a text which the seller has specified. In the case of InLinks, the seller offers specific bookable keywords within an exisiting (or future) text on the website, e.g. in an article or a blog posting. As opposed to a Content-Link which will be explained later, the buyer cannot specify his own text, but instead can book bookable keywords suggested by the seller. However, buyers additionally have the possibility to suggest alternative keywords. Following the booking, the static word is linked to the buyer’s URL.
And the last income stream from teliad is content links. Content-Links are text links with a descriptive content written by the advertiser himself. The buyer can book a complete section or area of the website content, which he can then place himself. Depending on the offer, this can be a small recommendation text or even a complete article or blog posting. The buyer sets a text link at any desired place within this section. The seller then integrates the text including the link in the offered URL. As the seller, you can specify the maximum number of characters for content texts. It is something like other get paid to blog or get paid to review opportunites to write about or to review something in your websites.
The payment is done through paypal or by direct bank trasfer. Though, in latter case, the transfer costs will be deducted from your income. I have been using teliad in some of my websites for last few months and I am highly satisfied from the results.
InfoLinks: In Text Advertising
Infolinks is an in text advertising service, providing advertising text highlighted in your content. Like other competitors in in text advertising arena, infolinks, too, hyperlinks the targeted in text ads directly into the text of the webpage. Infolinks and most in text advertising networks have the following characteristics in common:
- The text associated with an advertisement in infolinks is identified by a double-underline to differentiate it from regular hyperlinks. The link colors can be matched to your sites style easily.
- An in page floating window containing in text advertising content, appears when the cursor is positioned over the corresponding text. If in text advertising clicked, the visitor is directed to the advertiser’s landing page and you earn advertising revenue from this in text advertisement; otherwise, when the mouse is moved away from the hyperlink, the in text advertising window disappears.
- Since infolinks in text ads are tightly integrated with your content – no additional space required
- Infolinks doesnt ask any commitments and free to sign up. So there is no risk involved in signing up to infolinks in text advertisement.
Infolinks is highly popular in text advertising network compared to others since there is no restriction of any minimum number of visitors to get approved, like in other ad networks. Here, all small and big blogs and websites are welcome to join. For my experience, Infolinks type in text advertising is highly effective on content rich blogs and forums as well as other content rich websites. 12 % of my income generated from infolinks in text advertising network as of this writing.
Payment is done through paypal or directly to your bank account. At the end of each monthly payment period, Infolinks calculates your earnings for that month and issues your payment within 45 days of the end of the payment period, with the exception of monthly earnings of less than $100 which remain in your account and are added into the following month’s earnings.
