Chitika Review

Chitika is online advertising company located in Westborough, Massachusetts, USA. Their Script is based on your website content. It will show you ads related to your website's keywords. they provide text ads, banner ads, and now also in-text advertising like infolinks.





Best for non-textual websites
You should choose chitika as best alternative for Adsense. Chitika ads work good with lower text content websites. if your website has more images and lower text chitika is for you. it can do better than adsense for sure. beacause chitika scans search strings that are used by visitors. so it will work will non-textual website also.Their CPM rates are very good.

Joining
Joining process is very simple. you just have to be approved before sign up.
once your website is approved. you will be able to sign in.

Chitika accepts publishers from all countries. so no problems with joining. It is very good for small publishers because there is no minimum traffic required. Chitika rates your website in three levels. Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Gold- Tier 1 Advertisers
Silver- Tier 2 Advertisers
Bronze-  Tier 3 Advertisers

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Control Panel of Chitika
Control Panel is very simple and beginner friendly. it has very simple layout. they do not save ad formats which we have used. you have to generate code every time. or you can save it to other place. 
You can even customize ad looks e.g. Background Colour, Text Color, Link Colour etc.

Ad Formats
Chitika supports both Text and Display ads.
Currently they support following ad formats.

Display Enabled 120 x 600 Skyscraper 160 x 600 Wide Skyscraper 300 x 250 Rectangle 468 x 60 Mini Blog Banner	Mobile Only Adhesion Banner300 x 250 Mobile Hook 320 x 480 Mobile Hook
Dynamic Size List Unit	Others 160 x 160 Small Square 250 x 250 Square 200 x 200 Small Square 300 x 150 Rectangle, Wide 300 x 600 Half Page Banner 336 x 280 Rectangle 468 x 90 Small Blog Banner 468 x 180 Blog Banner 468 x 250 MEGA-Unit Jr. 500 x 200 Content Banner 500 x 250 MEGA-Unit 550 x 120 Content Banner 550 x 250 MEGA-Unit (Recommended) 728 x 90 Leaderboard

Reports

Chitika filters your reports very good. it contains Impressions, Ad clicks, CTR, CPM and Revenue. You can also filter report by your ad placements, ad formats.

Reports are not real time - they are updated daily (24 hours).

Here is my Report.

You can see that i'm getting good revenue with low traffic also.

Chitika Report

Support

Chitika support is very good. i personally experienced it. they usually respond within 16 hours.

Payments

They pay monthly. if you want to edit payment options you have to change details before 28 of month.

Payment Options
Paypal - Minimum payout is 10$
Check - Minimum payout is 50$

Referral 
Chitika also has Referral program. from that you can earn 10% of money earned by your referral for 15-months.

Final Words(Conclusion)
Chitika is one of the best alternative to Adsense. It is best for small contented blogs, Products and also non-textual blogs. because the ads are optimized from search strings. And payout is also 10$ which is better than others. Considering all parts, Chitika is good choice.

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Rating (out of 5)

Joining - 4 Stars
Control Panel - 4 Stars
Ads Quality - 4.5 Stars
Support - 4.5 Stars
Overall - 4.25