Chitika Ad Reviews : Earning & Payment Methods

Bloggers have many options to monetize their blog. After writing reviews about Adversal, Infolinks, Bidvertiser, I have come up with Chitika Ad reviews. In this article, I will give you an overview of Chitika which is one of the popular alternative ad networks to AdSense. Chitika is a primary non-contextual advertising company. The best thing about Chitika is, it has a low minimum payout threshold. If you are a newbie blogger and have a blog with less traffic, Chitika is going to be one of those premium ad networks which will show quality relevant ads. If you have a high-quality blog, you can earn a great income from Chitika.

Chitika Ad Reviews – A Scam or Legit?

The first question that comes to mind while trying to use any method to monetize the blog is – Is it Scam or Legit? Chitika is a 100% legit company. Chitika is one of the oldest companies in online advertising space. It was founded in 2003. One of my friends is already earning a handsome amount from Chitika and he always gets payment on time. So it is not a scam but a legit company. Now I have also tried Chitika and about to reach the threshold soon. I will share my payment proof soon.

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How Chitika Works ?
Chitika can show relevant ads for a site with very few text and lot of video content. For instance, a visitor searched for some special keyword and comes to your website, the ads that appear on your website for this visitor, will be based on what the visitor was searched for. In the case of a direct view of the ad , they may show a blank one or an ad from answered questions dot com. You might already know it if you are a publisher of Chitika. Hence you can imagine if it will show ads relevant to your content, your CTR will be high and you can earn a good income from it.

Also Read: Infolinks Ads Reviews: Easy Way To Earn Money Online

Chitika Ad Reviews: Minimum Criteria to Join Chitika

There are no minimum criteria to join Chitika. Any newbie blogger or blog having less amount of traffic can also apply for Chitika and can get it approved easily. Joining with Chitika is easy as publishers and advertisers from all countries are accepted and there are no restrictions as to the minimum impressions of the site. They do not take much time to approve the account. Once you are approved, all you need to do is create ad zone and place the code in your blog. If you are not so tech-savvy and using WordPress, you can use their WordPress plugin to show Chitika ads on your blog.

You can sign up for Chitika using this link

Chitika Ad Reviews: Different Ad Formats Available

Chitika provides a wide range of ads to use on your blog including mobile ads which are a major requisite on today’s date. Chitika ads can be clubbed into below group

Banner ads — They are standard ad type. Chitika does not show banner ad but they show images with text.
Mobile ads – These days, a huge amount of traffic comes from Smartphones or mobiles. It is mandatory to provide ads that can be easily viewable in the mobile version without degrading the design or performance. Chitika stands by you in this case. These ads are displayed only if your website is viewed from the mobile device. The ads are displayed on depending upon the device, not the site. This means if a user browses your website using mobile device ads will show up. You do not have to create a mobile site for this. Entire mobile traffic of your website will get monetized.
In text ads — Chitika is CPC (Cost Per Click) based on text link ads. You may also have heard about In-Text advertising network such as Infolinks etc.
Hover ads — Hover ads are displayed on the bottom right corner of your website. They remain at that place while the visitor is scrolling down your website.
Highlight ads — Highlight ads get displayed when a user selects some text on your website. It will get displayed below the user selected text area.
Sample Sizes:

Chitika Ad Reviews Ad Types

Creating ads and customizing is very easy. After selecting your preferred ad size you can click on get the code to get the ad codes. You can embed that code to your blog to show ads.

Also Read: Adversal CPM ad Network Reviews – Alternative to Google Adsense

Chitika Payment Terms

As of April 14th, 2015, Chitika’s payment system will require a verified Paypal address for payment.Chitika has low minimum payout threshold. The minimum payment threshold is $10 if the payment method is PayPal.

Compatibility with Google Adsense

The good news here is – Chitika is compatible with Google Adsense. You do not have to make any changes to your Adsense layout nor to Chitika ads to make them work together. They are compatible out of the box. In fact, it is claimed that using Chitika along with Adsense increases earnings.

Also Read: BidVertiser Reviews – Earnings & Payment Methods

Chitika Support

Chitika support is fairly good. The usual response time from Chitika is within 24 hours which is very fast. Furthermore, they have a very good knowledge base which answers so many questions.

Chitika Ads Reviews: A look at Publisher’s dashboard

Chitika provides a simple and easy platform to publishers to use it. Below snapshot includes the report section provided by Chitika. You can view and even save reports for whatever period you want (7 days, 14 days, 30 days, This Month, Last Month, Custom date). You can uncheck ‘Show Channels’ if you just want to view your earnings.

Chitika Ad Reviews - Publisher dashboard

Chitika Ad Reviews – Pros of Using Chitika

Low eligibility criteria.
Minimum payout is low (just $10)
Suitable for all the niche type.
Approval is easy
Different ad options including mobile types.
Can use alongside Adsense and other ad networks
Search targeted ads ensure that only relevant ads are shown to the visitor
Chitika support countries worldwide with their ad units
Auto-resizing mobile ads make monetizing mobile traffic very easy
Chitika Ad Reviews – Cons of Using Chitika

Shows ad mostly on traffic from search engine.
Less PPC in comparison to AdSense.
Traffic from referrals are not targeted very well and ads are displayed based on your main keyword or title.
Chitika Ad Reviews : Summary

Chitika Details

Network Type: CPC, PPC, CPM Pay-per-call for mobile ads
Chitika CPM, CPC, PPC Advertising Rates and Revenue: Average  $0.30 to $0.60, Highest $3
Minimum Payment Threshold: $10 for PayPal
Payment Frequency: Monthly, NET 30
Statistics Updated: Daily
Website URL: www.chitika.com
Also Read: AdsOptimal Review: is It Best CPM Ad Network?? (Sign Up now & get $15 as joining bonus)

Conclusion

At the end of the review, I would recommend giving Chitika a shot. It can be a fairly good choice for people who has product based blogs and also for general websites. Since they scan the search strings that we used to reach the website, they are able to outperform Adsense. Their payout is at 10$. Considering all this, Chitika is a good choice.

Why I Converted My Multi Niche Blog To Single Niche Blog ?

If you are a regular visitor of this blog, you might have noticed that I just converted my multi niche blog to single niche blog. There have been lots of things I faced while & after converting my multi niche blog to single niche blog. This article will list out the reasons why I converted my multi niche blog to single niche blog and what are the outcomes that I got after that. It might help you in finding a blog niche and understanding how can a blog be profitable enough if you start in the right direction.


It was 2012 when I started blogging. I created a blog called sparkscoop.com. At that time, I started blogging as my hobby. I used to write articles on LifeStyle, Entertainment, Top 10 List, Latest Technologies, and Computer Stuff etc. As you know, after a year we have to renew our domain. I submitted the renewal fees to my hosting provider (as domain renewal was in the same package only). Though company renewed my hosting but missed to renew my domain. I came to know about it once the retention period was also over and my blog was not accessible. The one year of my hard work went in vain. After that, I purchased new domain – CatchUpdates.com. Since I had the backup of my previous blog, I imported that backup to my new blog. But the link building and domain authority, ranking everything were gone. Hereafter, I continued to write articles on articles on LifeStyle, Entertainment, Top 10 List, Latest Technologies and Computer Stuff etc. This was just a brief history of my blogging experience.

Why I Converted Multi Niche Blog to Single Niche Blog?

Now coming to the article, I am mentioning why I ditched Multi-niche and converted multi niche blog to single niche blog.

Personal Interest
The main reason of converting my multi niche blog to single niche blog was my personal interest. As you know I started blogging as a hobby and not thinking of any other thing. But after some time I realized I was not loving what I was doing. I was more interested in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), WordPress, Blogging Tricks. Since I was practicing and using these things for my blog. I found these things, more interested. It was something where I can share my experiences like what things worked best for me and what did not so that I can share it to help other bloggers. Though taking this decision was not as easy for me but finally, I followed my interest.

Advice: Take your time in finding a blogging niche. You can always consider most popular blog niches. For anyone who wants to start blogging, I would recommend selecting the niche first in which he/she is interested. Otherwise, you will regret later on. This is the first thing I always mention when anyone approaches me and ask how to start blogging. Starting a niche blog requires a lot of analysis and commitment.

Also Read: Tips For New Bloggers To Achieve Success Starting From Today

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SEO is difficult for multi-niche blog
SEO is a bad idea for a multi niche blog. If you are covering many scattered categories/topics on your blog then you are affecting your SEO badly. As we know about the SEO and Search algorithms are changing every day. Various search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing are ranking websites based on brand and possession.  Let me give you a simple example – Say you are interested in sports (let’s take Cricket). You search in search engines for “What are some of the greatest Cricket matches of all time” or ‘’Top Less Known facts about Cricket”.  The search engine provides you many results. Let’s take two example of search results –

Blog 1 –  A blog which is dedicated to Cricket (or in broader term – Sports) (Niche blog)
Blog 2 –  A blog which contains many topics such as Sports, Technologies, Health, Photography etc. (Multi Niche Blog)
So out of these two blogs, which would you choose? I would certainly select the first blog, as it is likely to offer more quality content (because it is a blog dedicated specifically to the topic of cricket), and it will offer a cleaner and better user experience. Same is the case with the search engine as well. Google team is bringing new algorithms regularly just to make sure that only quality Blogs/website appears in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).

That’s why the single niche blog has a good opportunity of creating a possession on a topic in comparison to a blog writing about multiple topics. Single niche blogs always better perform than Multi niche blogs.

Also Read Common SEO Mistakes You Need To Avoid Right Now

Providing valuable information to our Subscribers
The big disadvantage of a multi niche blog is not giving valuable information to our subscribers. Mostly, new bloggers just find best blogging niches and start writing on all the topics.Say you are running Multi niche blog where you are writing about Health, Entertainment, photography, Sports, technology etc. Someone is interested in Sports and he/she landed on your blog. The user found the article very useful or informative. He/she subscribed to your blog. Then you published a new article on Health or Photography and you sent that article to your subscriber’s inbox. Since he just subscribed your blog for Sports and he may not be interested in health or Photography. It might be annoying to him and the user can end up with unsubscribing your blog. But still, if you are running multi niche blog with many scattered topics and do not want this case to happen with you – then while providing subscription form you can mention all the topics that you provide information and let user give preference also while subscribing. So that once you write any new article, you just let only interested subscribers know about it without annoying other subscribers.

In another case, if you are writing only about niche-specific articles, the subscriber will be happy to get latest updates from you since for this topic, he subscribed to your blog.

Also Read: OptinMonster Reviews – Why Is It Best Subscription WordPress Plugin?

So after converting my multi niche blog to single niche blog, I think I am doing justice with my subscribers 😉

Making Money with Multi Niche Blog is difficult
Many people have asked me that are blogs profitable and how can they start earning $$$/month. The answer is making money from blogging is not as easy as it looks. If you are blogging just for money, you should rather start focusing on a single niche blog. Blog income is directly proportional to the traffic and targeted visitors to your blog. With targeted visitors, I meant the quality of visitors who are actually looking for this content. For multi niche blog, it is very difficult to find direct advertisers. On another hand, with a single niche blog it is easy to find the direct advertiser. Now you may think – “What nonsense I am saying”. Advertisers need traffic and my multi-Niche blog has enough traffic”. If you are also thinking in the same manner then wait again. Niche specific blog will provide better ROI for the money purpose. Any direct advertiser will spend for advertisement in niche specific blog only that best suits him.

Even if you are not using direct advertisers on your blog and monetizing your blog with any of CPC, CPS, CPL networks, then also you need targeted visitors to earn. Because targeted visitors can give you high CTR. For targeted and Quality visitors, most likely you need a niche-specific blog.

Recommended Readings:

Top 15 Ways To Make Money Online From Your Blog
How To Make Money With ShareASale Affiliate Program?
How To Use Infolinks To Earn money?
Adversal CPM Ad Network – Is It True Alternative to Google Adsense?
How You Can Inrease Your Earning From Chitika?
5 Reasons Why You Should Start Affiliate Marketing
AdsOptimal Review: Is It One Of Best CPM Ad Networks?
 Multi Niche Blog is difficult to Manage
The other reasons why I Converted my multi niche blog to single niche blog is – Multi niche is difficult to manage. A multi niche blog means that you have to keep an eye on every category and make sure to keep all categories are getting updated. And for part-time bloggers, who are also doing a job, it is very difficult to publish multiple new posts daily. As a result of which, bloggers stop posting on all niche regularly and they tend to post on just 1-2 niches. The reason why they start doing this is because of the “TRAFFIC” they get from some categories. This is a good thing but if you plan to get your site a good authority overall and also for getting included well in google news then you must take care of your categories. Thus managing multi niche blog is very difficult.

Directory Submission is difficult for Multi Niche blog
You might be aware there are many directories available and you can submit your blog in related categories for better exposure and links. Now considering you are running a multi niche blog and writing on many scattered topics, in which directory you will submit your blog? You may say you will find the category that is driving maximum traffic to your blog. And then will go with the related directory. But it is difficult to submit your blog to directories and get it approved. On another hand, single niche blog is easy to submit and get it approved.

 Multi Niche Blog has High Bounce Rate
Blog with multiple topics often suffers from high bounce rate. This is because when someone visits a site through an article of his interest, he wants to read something similar. But in the case of a multi-niche blog, he may not find it as your recent posts might not be on the same topic. This makes your visitors exi-
Difficulty to Connect to Your Fellow Bloggers (Networking Issue)
Networking is one of the important things in the blogosphere. It is very important to connect with bloggers of your niche and maintain good relations with them for a successful blog. But when your blog has many niches, you have to connect with bloggers of all that niches. This is the most difficult part as we bloggers are so busy with our work that maintaining relationship with a multi niche blog is tough.

Final Words

I have listed all the reasons why I converted my multi niche blog to single niche blog. While working on multiple topics, I was a Jack of all trades, Master of None. There are enormous blogging niche ideas that you can think of. Now as I am writing about SEO, WordPress, Blogging Tricks, I am getting in-depth knowledge in these areas and I can share a lot of knowledge with my visitors. Nowadays, everyone appreciates the specialists, not the allrounders. You can easily find profitable niches online and then start with best blog niche that you think will be.

That’s all in this article. Do share your views and experiences either you are running multi niche blog or single niche blog. Also, share your feedback –  Was my decision to convert multi niche blog to single niche blog justified? Waiting for your feedback

How To Do Off Page SEO to Improve Website and Get Instant traffic

Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is the crucial aspect to know if you are a blogger and running a blog. Without SEO, your blog will not get that much attention that it should. SEO mainly covers the On Page SEO and OFF Page SEO. This article explains how to do Off Page SEO to improve your website. Off page SEO refers to techniques that can be used to improve the position of a website in the search engine results page (SERPs).

How To Do Off Page SEO?

Following are the few things to do the Off Page SEO. You might be aware of few things, but I have something more for you. Try these Advanced Off-Page SEO Strategies to market your website, get ranked in search engines, and to build an online reputation (branding) for your company/website so that you can survive in this SEO world.

 Using Social Networking Sites to do Off Page SEO

This is social networking era. Billions of people are connected with other through social networking sites and share the information with just one click. Social networking is booming day by day and you have to utilize this as much as you can to do off Page SEO. Join and become the member of the most popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Linked In, Pinterest, Reddit, Quora and create a profile of your own. By doing this, you can extend your network online, get connect with your friends, share things with each other, and promote your company/website to build an online reputation.

Things you should do to promote blog Social image - to do off page SEO

Join Forums relevant to your Niche
Create a new forum or join existing forums relevant to your niche and be an active member of this. Post your queries and get solutions from other bloggers. It will help you to learn new things. Also, give your inputs to solve their queries. It will help you in building the relationship with them. They will start following you and your blog and you will gain good readers. You can also post/reply to a thread in other service-related pre-existing forums that allow links in your signature which can be crawled by the search engines.

To do Off page SEO Forum_Posting

 Search Engine Submission & Article Submission
Search Engine Submission also helps to improve website indexing thus helps in good rankings. Start submitting your website to the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing etc. Also start writing articles and submit them to popular article sites. This will help you to attain some deep links for your website.

To do Off page SEO Search_Engine_Submission

 Directory Submission
Directory Submission also holds some value in doing Off Page SEO. But you will have to be wary while submitting to directories. Make sure you are selecting right category while submitting your blog. Submit your websites to the topmost quality directories like DMOZ, Yahoo Directory etc.

Yahoo Directory etc.

To do Off page SEO Direcoty_Submission

Business Reviews Write reviews about others businesses or ask your friends/clients to write a review of your business in major business review sites like RateitAll, Shvoong, Kaboodle, Stylefeeder, etc.
Internal linking your Posts
Link to internal pages within your site wherever necessary. These types of links have more weight from a search engine point of view. Internal linking is useful in following ways:

Pass the link juice to other pages
Decreasing the bounce rate.
Providing relevant data to readers
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is another great way of promoting your website and to do off page SEO. Publish quality content and submit it to the most popular bookmarking sites, like StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, etc. Search engines really like these types of sites because the content on these sites is updated very frequently.

 Link Exchange
Exchange links with service-related websites that can help increase your link popularity. It is a major factor in Google’s PageRank algorithm. But artificial link building through buying and selling of links or the use of automatic programs to create links to your site are considered ‘black hat’ practice. You should beware of Black-Hats while doing exchanges. For search engines, a link from another website to your site is a sign of confidence. Hence, you should look for high authority sites rather than a bunch of low authorities site. Remember, the more good quality links the better.

Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is also a good way to do off page SEO. Give useful comments on other blogs within the same niche as yours, which allow you to add a link in the comments section. These links can then be crawled by search engines, helping to point them towards your site.

Document Sharing
Create your website documents and place some website links and convert it into PDF. Share it as business documents, information brochures, and slides in Google Docs, or on document sharing sites like SlideShare, Issuu, Scribd, dropbox etc. This will help you brand your website.

Using Questions – Answers Sites – Quora/ Yahoo Answers etc
You should participate in answering questions on sites like Quora or Yahoo Answers. By answering and asking relevant questions on your site niche, you help to build up your reputation as someone that is an expert in your chosen field. You can place a link to your website in the source section if necessary so that people can easily find your site. If you don’t spam, this is another great way to do off page SEO.

Also Read: How To Convert Quora into Traffic Driving Machine

Local Listings & Yellow Pages
Try to have local listing for your website. Make your website local so that search engines can easily view your website and fetch the content instead of going global and facing huge competition. This will help you to reach a targeted audience. Submit your website to Google Local, Maps, Yahoo Local, Yellow Pages etc.

That’s all about off page optimization techniques. Keep this  off page SEO checklist in mind. Try implementing these Off Page SEO strategies and improve your website. Make sure you are implementing these sensitively.

You can also read article on ‘Off Page SEO by Ahref‘ to get some more insights.

US President Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony

Donald Trump was today sworn is as the 45th President of the United States. As his predecessor Barack Obama looked on, President Trump delivered his inaugural address to the American people, and promised to never let them down.

Here are the top quotes from his speech.
1.
Power to the people

We are transferring power from Washington DC and giving it back to you the people... January 20, 2017 will be remembered as the day people became the rulers of this nation.
2.
Every decision to benefit American workers

From this day, it will be America first...Every decision will be made to benefit American workers and families.
3.
On what matters in a government

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

4.
Bringing back dreams

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.
5.
'Forgotten no longer'

The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.
6.
On radical Islamism

We will completely eradicate radical Islamism from the face of the earth.
7.
Enriching other nations

We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.
8.
Two rules to follow

We will follow two rules-Buy American and Hire American.
9.
The 'blood of patriots'

Whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.
10.
Determining the course of the world

Together we will determine course of America and the world for many years to come.

daily health tips

Much opposite to what you are often told, having a warm glass of milk or a few nuts before bedtime actually keeps your blood sugar stable through the night, ensuring better quality of sleep. However, this holds true only for people who have their dinner before 7 in the evening. For those having dinner close to bedtime, this is a strict no! You are anyway putting extra burden on your digestive system, it surely doesn't need more.

When all health experts are talking about the benefits of having green tea, then why not replace one cup of your normal tea or coffee with a cup of this goodness? Think a bit deeper; a cup of green tea is loaded with health benefits, and is worth trying

There have been numerous studies that suggest helping others brings happiness and as we all know, happiness is good for your well-being. You can always use these positive emotions to lead a more active life. A stress-free brain is more productive than a pressurized one and helping one another only makes life simpler!


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sleep on time

Due to many factors, sleeping well may not completely be under your control but hitting the bed on time surely is. Decide a specific bedtime and don't wait for yourself to feel sleepy. Stick to the time and you will see a drastic change in your health. Sleep is vital for both physical and mental well-being as resting time is repairing time. Waking up groggy in the morning is a sign of bad sleep that may affect your health more than you think it would


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walk when you talk

Working out daily for an hour may sound intimidating to some but walking while talking can take care of that. Next time when you get a call, stand up from your chair and walk while talking. A collague wants to chat

, go out and walk the talk, literally. It is important to walk at least 10,000 steps every day and if you do most of your non-laptop activities walking, you will be able to cross the minimum walk goal easily.

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