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My best performing ads are Google Adsense but you are limited to 3 of those per site and I already meet that limit so I wanted to try some of the Adsense alternatives out there. One of the sites that got the most good press during my search was Chitika so I have been trying it out.

What’s to like about Chitika?

• Can be used in conjunction with Google Adsense or right alongside of it
• Doesn’t show up for your regular readers (<– My favorite)
• Ability to sell the adspace for your own price

Chitika is very unique in that it only shows to people who reach your site via a search engine. If someone reaches your site from any direct link (their RSS reader, bookmark, a link you send out on Twitter, etc) then they don’t see the ads at all. I really love this feature. This way my regular readers and Twitter followers aren’t seeing this ad spot at all but the people who just chanced upon my blog are seeing targeted search results based on whatever they searched for that led them to my site in the first place. It’s based on the idea that casual surfers who chanced on your site through search results are the most likely to click on ads anyway so why not only show it to them? It is also like a perk for regular readers that their experience has less ads.

Want to see this in action (or not see it, as the case my be)? There is a Chitika ad right at the top of this post. If you came here through search results, you are seeing it but, if you are a regular reader or otherwise accessed this from another direct link, you aren’t seeing it. I think that is pretty cool!

There are a wide variety of options for the Chitika Premium ad boxes and many sizes so you should be able to fit one just about anywhere.

Their other service is called Chitika AdPro. This service is much more limited in the sizes that you can use but has its own merits. Once you set up one of these boxes, you can set a minimum ad price on it. To will show the normal Chitika search result based ads until you get as advertiser who is willing to meet the price that you set. Then that advertiser can take over that space and show their ads. When you have no buyers, you are still getting a chance to make money off of that space but, as long as someone is willing to pay, it also gives you the option to sell it for more to a specific buyer.

While I have only had one Chitika box set up for about a week, I have been pleased so far with their results. As always, I will post updates on how it is going, especially if I later change my mind and decide I no longer like their service. But, as blog ad options go, this one came very highly recommended and, so far, I really like what they have to offer so I am very optimistic.

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WordPress is one of the most successful platforms used for blogging online. It offers plenty of options to design and optimize your WordPress based blogs and to make your blogs popular, it is necessary to choose right plugins. Bloggers and marketers promote their products, services through social media sites. There is lot of options and methodologies to reach the clients directly.

Here listing the best SEO and social media WordPress plugins, which you can use for your blog posts.

Sharebar

Though there are some share plugins, existing in social share page, Sharebar comes under the unique group of plugins. The customization features and flexibility options allow the users to share as per their preferences. This is one of officially supported plugins, which you can set up the buffer code in your website.

Disquss Comment System

Discquss plugin is a separate blogging system that WordPress does not support by default. This helps in supporting threaded comments and responses with mixed indention. As it is not default it make it easier to read the threaded comments. You can also use it for sharing comments, links via using the blog post in social media. Above all it is one of the easiest and fast responsive plugins.

SEO Facebook Comment

If you are using Facebook for marketing purposes, then this is the best plugin to use for your blog. Both the plugins, Disquss and SEO Facebook comment helps in spreading rich contents on the social networking sites. Facebook users can make full use of SEO Facebook comment for their social networking.

SEO Rank Reporter

This plugin helps you in tracking the keywords of your content. It also notifies about the keyword changes to the user by an email. Thus, when keywords experience alterations or changes SEO Rank reporter informs the user. This helps the user to easily track keywords and rank in search engines. This is one of smart SEO tools used by the experts.

Scribe SEO

This plugin helps in analyzing the value of your content. You can check your errors, detect faults as well correct its structure. Scribe SEO helps to rank your contents in lead when posted with accepting its suggestions. You just have to input or paste your contents and the plugin will quickly show some possible suggestions. The score report in Scribe SEO is truly beneficial that helps the user to give out more quality contents for the site.

To sum up

These are some of simple and popular plugins that will help you using with just a click. Social media and SEO are the best form to market products, brands or services. The more creative is your approach, the more you can benefit with these WordPress plugins.

About the author: Brianne is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of gadgets. Recently an article on best wireless speakers attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on BMW GT.