There has been reports flying around the Blogosphere that adding Chitika to your blog can in fact deduct from your AdSense earnings. The reason is simple. If people click on your Chitika ads then they won’t click on your AdSense ads. Chitika has more appeal at the first sight since it incorporates images in its ads. So most first time visitors would notice that more than your AdSense ads. Regular visitors, however would develop Chitika blindness over time, and this is when your AdSense earnings start to hike back up to its previous state.

A few bloggers don’t mind the AdSense dip so much. They claim that what they’re making with Chitika is far more generous than what they lose with AdSense. The balance they say is very well worth it.

However, in our very own experience, especially with a forum at http://soleredemption.com/forum/ we’ve noticed a 50% drop in AdSense earnings for the past week. More and more people are clicking on our Chitika ads. But the difference in loss is very substantial since Chitika isn’t giving us back what we lose, so we decided to take Chitika off that forum for the time being.

What are your experiences with Chitika? Please share with us in the comments below.

This entry was posted by JErm on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 at 6:15 am and is filed under Blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.