Setting Google AdSense Alternate Ad URL

Are you monetizing your website with Google AdSense? LOL

If you are you’re going to want to take a moment to set up alternate or default ads for your AdSense Ads. Alternate ads would be an ad that would replace the AdSense Ad when there are no available ads and instead a lovely PSA (Public Service Announcement) appears that when clicked will not result in any revenue for you (Example of a PSA RedCross.org). These ads, while helpful to communities and/or non for profit organizations, will instead lower your CTR (click through rate) as well as ePCM (Page View Value per 1000). I personally had no idea how simple it was to set up a default ad until fairly recently and wanted to take a moment to pass this valuable information on as it did increase my overall CTR and ePCM as well as created an additional source of revenue.
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Chitika’s Recent Updates and Bonus

Chitika, which is still in beta, has mad a few changes recently that have affected some publishers. While some report an increase or no change at all in CTR many publishers have reported a large CTR drop which, of coarse, affects the publishers overall income or revenue. In my opinion, …

Chitika Reports Late to Update

It is now 3:30 PM EST and I as well as several others have noted that their Chitika reports have not yet updated with yesterdays (November 13th) stats. No official word yet on why but I bet it has something to do with all the new channels
Update: Stats were …

Tracking Channels using Keyword

Looking for a simple hack to determine the top paying keywords for your site that is using Chitika eMinimalls? Well look no more! This hack extends your existing channel name(s) to include the name of prduct that was clicked. This will still give you statistics to track an interactive …

Set up Ad Tracking with Chitika Channels

Now that channels have been implemented in the reports area at Chitika tracking ad performance is now a big priority for me as well as many other publishers. Being able to track performance is very important to your overall success as a publisher so the fact that Chitika has this …

Chitika Custom Channels have been implemented

Great news! I just made my daily check of my Chitika statistics and guess what the reports have been updated and now include channel reporting.

Finally a way to track your individual pages, ads, and keywords. I am really looking forward to looking into more detailed reports and see which ads are converting and which ones are not.

If you have not added the channel to your Chitikacode this is what you will need to add. Replace “XXXX” with your unique channel ID name

ch_sid = 'XXXX';