Some day before I started using Chitika Ads on My blog as I have heard that they pay good amount of money and also a good alternative to Google Adsense.But after the implementation of the code in the blog I came to know that Ads were not appearing on my blog.
I tried many searches in google but haven't got a satisfied answer but got a way to know that whether the ads are really working on blog or not.
Lets Assume you already have registered with Chitika and have the ad code ready with you.Make sure you have the right ad format and you pasted in a proper place on your website/blog so that space you provide on the sites is never smaller than the original Ad size.
Now to view if the Ads are active or not add the below code in blockquote at the end your site url in address bar and hit enter.
#chitikatest=keyword
for Example to see if the ads are active on my site I will use one of the following URLs :
Now when you check your url with the #tag you should be able to view some stuff in the ad space. This means you Chitika ads are already active and ready to roll.
Here is the result of what I see for after using #chitikatest on my own blog [ Now I don't use Chitika Anymore ]
Here is the reason why does it not show on my website without those #tags ?
This is the main thing and a good one practice which Chitika has done that it shows ads to users who land to your website/blog using search results from search engine. In clear words these ads are mostly targeted on users from US region. So use Chitika only if you have traffic from US region. I think Google Adsense must learn this function from Chitika because in this way no fraud click or click bombing could be done blogs.