CategoryChitika eMiniMalls

Chitika have today added another new ad unit to their growing line of options for publishers – this one is called Chitika Linx. It’s still in beta and I’m not one of the lucky few to be invited to test it – but from the overview page it looks very ...more

Google sent their top earners digital picture frames, YPN sent sweatshirts and in the last few days Chitika publishers have started getting their gifts – ipod shuffles. Very cool idea and something practical that I’m sure will get a lot of use. I’m not sure what the cutoff point was ...more

This reader ‘quick tip’ was submitted by Antoine Khater from All Day I Dream About Photography Wouldn’t be nice to have you Chikita emini-mall or ShopCloud$ (aff) showing up as the Alternate URL of Adsense? Here is a trick I recently learned on how to do it. Just set up ...more

In my last post I wrote a series of tips on how to use Chitika’s eMiniMalls and RPU ads. Today I want to turn my attention to their Shoplinc product (aff). I’ve had reasonable (and increasing) success with Shoplinc since it launched a few months back. Once you have people ...more

This post is a continuation of my previous post on optimizing Chitika Ads in which I spoke largely about ad targetting. Positioning Ads Good positioning of Chitika ads is similar to that of AdSense in that in general they work well above the fold (with some exceptions – see below) ...more

As I look towards the end of the year earnings across my blogs I’m particularly excited about the potential for my Chitika Ads. They continue to be my equal highest earner (with AdSense) and this will only increase over the coming weeks. Chitika (aff) have been providing publishers with advertising ...more

Chitika have added new sizes to their ShopCloud$ ad unit (read my intro to them here).They now not only come in a 468×180 size ad but also: • 300×250 • 250×250 • 160×600 • 160×160 • 120×600

When people can’t find what they are looking for on your blog one of the things that they’ll often do is head for your search tool and see if they can find what they are looking for on your blog that way. On my blogs hundreds of people use my ...more

Chitika have been rolling out some interesting offerings to publishers lately. Their eMinimalls are over a year old now, they’ve exctended them to Multi Product Unit minimalls and more recently announced Shoplinc shops and their Forums. Another product that they’ve been testing lately with a small group of testers is ...more