Kontera, Adbrite, Bidvertiser, and Chitika Pay Rates Are Quite Low!

When you are in the money making online business, you know there are quite a few of them that really make you some money. Among them counted are these four ad publisher networks. But recently, my visit statistics for my other blog, in which I experimented with all four of them has been quite a bit, but my earnings actually were nothing to write home about.

Kontera

Average CPC has been around 1 or 2 cents mostly. Also, there were no clicks at all for about 300 impressions or more every day. I used to get 5 clicks a week or so. And the earnings never touched above 40 cents.

Though there is assumption that Kontera depends on the niche of the site it is on, there is no indication to that. Most of the advertisers and publishers of the Kontera program are feeling bad.

Adbrite

For me the most severe problem in earnings was with this network. Adbrite seems to have not counted any of my impressions and probable clicks. I had over 3000 impressions and not a single click was registered. The placement of the ad was right below each post's title.

I enquired Adbrite support about it and they didn't give any valuable suggestion or answer other than the valueless suggestion to use their full-page ads and in-content link ads.

Bidvertiser

The story with Bidvertiser is almost similar to Adbrite. The support team, however, made quite a charming note to me. They said "Your CTR is set at 1 click per thousand impressions" I don't know what they meant by this.

They are not 'setting' clicks per impressions. If I get ten people visiting my site and all ten of them click on my ads, then I have 100 per cent CTR. The fifty that come after that may not decide to click ads. So, it is not the ad network that 'decides' clicks. It is the visitors. And if the ad network tells you that they set your click rates, you have to understand that they are simply not counting clicks.

Chitika

Chitika ads have been better performing than any of these others. Also, they seemed to be more professional. However, in a week, my earnings was only about 2 dollars. That was more than the sum I could earn in a day from Adsense. So, I stopped using Chitika. I was also forced to fetch their support team, because for the last three days of using it, I found that for over 500 impressions, I didn't have any click. They didn't give any satisfactory answer to that query either. So I stopped using Chitika too.

I am eagerly in wait for a better publisher program. You will find more and more details of other publishers programs and better advertisement earning networks, from this topic.

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