Chitika ads actually rescued me a couple of months ago when I got layed off from my job. I knew about Chitika before,but for some reason, I would never use them. Well, I got desperate at the time,and decided to give them a try.

Much to my amazement, I actually started making more with them alone, than at my measly little job, I got laid off from. That’s when I became self employed. They’re awesome.

The ad units I use are the Chitika “Linx” ads which are inline ppc ads which double underline certain words in your content,and when people scroll over it, it brings up an ad. If they click on it,you make money. What’s so unique about them, is that they pay way more than any other inline ppc ad networks I’ve ever worked with before.

They pay between 0.12 – 0.32 per click,and that ads up if you get a lot of traffic. I used them on my entertainment news site, ontheflix.com,and made like $300 in one day from them alone. It fluctuates from day to day as the traffic does. But there is no doubt that they are the best.

As far as the auditing that they do goes,I’ve always earned the full amount that they show on the screen. I’ve heard that they used to audit payments,and the earnings would be lower,but not for me. They also pay me at the end of every month through paypal. So as far as I’m concerned Chitika rocks.

Chitika pays more than Infolinks, and definitely Kontera. They’re about even with Vibrant Media,but since Vibrant Media’s ads don’t show up enough, I actually earn way less with them,so I had to remove them.

I currently run Chitika in tandom with Infolinks.It’s a good combo. Infolinks and Kontera currently only pay like .04-.07 per click for entertainment news content. They may pay more in other niches. I can only tell you the experience I’ve had.

I also run Chitika’s 334×100 premium unit under my single page articles on my entertainment news site. It complements the Chitika Linx nicely. I’ve gotten around 0.18 cents per click on those, before. They generally earn less than the intext Linx ads,but they compliment them so it’s ok.

For me,it’s all about getting as many ad networks to complement each other, to earn a big pay check at the end of the month. To date, I’ve currently made about $3,000 with Chitika in a 3 month period.That money coupled with money I make from other ad networks, allows me to blog full time.

The site I run them on currently gets between 10,000 – 15,000 uniques per day,and between 16,000 – 20,000 pageviews per day. I plan to run them on this site in the future,once I get more content on it.