In the Blogosphere
ProBlogger
September 19, 2006
Chitika eMiniMalls Advice from Chitika
Ryan over at the Chitika Blog has posted some helpful tips for bloggers just starting out with Chitika in his Chitika eMiniMalls Blogging Toolkit post. It includes some nice tips for getting set up on different platforms as well as some more general tips.
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Info Pro Resellers blog
September 6, 2006
More Blog Monetizing Options
Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising programme because it can serve very detailed advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in different tabs: one for "Best deals", another for "details", another for "reviews" and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher.
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BlogHelper
September 6, 2006
Managing Multiple Chitika eMinimalls Ads in WordPress
So, it shouldn't be surprising to find bloggers who want to place multiple Chitika ads on the same page - all of which targeted via the same keywords to maximize context. But if you use the default approach of the various Chitika plugins available for WordPress (i.e. in-post tags like [eminimall]), you will have to enter keywords manually for each ad you place within the post (unlike for contextual ads like AdSense which do not suffer from this problem).
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feedbuzzard
September 3, 2006
August 2006: Top Earners
The Blog Herald has posted about its Top Earners for August so I thought I would do the same. Here's where I see the money coming in-
1. Google AdSense is currently my biggest chunk of income.
2. Chitika comes in at a close second largely because my sites are product related.
The Center for Marketing Small Business
August 19, 2006
Chitika For Website Marketing
"So, what's the big deal?" You may ask. Well that's pretty simple actually, Chitika has invented a revolutionary ad-type called eMiniMaills. These eMiniMalls are banner sized shopping cart displaying items that you choose by keywords, and you get paid for every click on the ads.
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Chitika Help, News & Tips
August 14, 2006
Chitika eMiniMalls Adds New Categories & Multi-Product Unit Sizes
Your ShopLinc will feature content from your website, blog posts or articles. So its not just another shop, its your shop with your content, not ours. Maintained by Chitika , "remote" controlled by you! Chitika | ShopLincs will be offered to select publishers. At this time, ShopLincs are being offered on an invitation basis only. You will be able to apply for your own ShopLinc soon.
Read MoreProBlogger
August 12, 2006
Chitika Shoplinc Review
Chitika have just gone public with a new feature - Shoplincs - a CPC (cost per click) branded shop that you can host on your own domain and attatch to your blog/site. Over the last couple of weeks I've been fortunate enough to be a part of a small (very small from what I can tell) beta test of ShopLinc and now that it's public can tell you a little about it.
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Publishers Review
August 8, 2006
Chitika eMiniMalls Adds New Categories and Multi-Product Unit Sizes
Chitika eMiniMall is rolling out some neat features this month. The first feature is the expansion of the categories to include 18 new popular categories, which include 8 video games sectors ... Chitika has also added 4 new eMiniMalls mult-product unit sizes:
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Irwan's
July 17, 2006
Chitika Eminimalls
Chitika eMiniMalls, a newcomer in advertising industry came with a new fresh concept of advertising. Instead of static text ads, Chitika Eminimalls brings contextual visual ads presented in a new mall-like window, as the name Chitika Eminimalls implied.
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The Age
June 15, 2006
Why bloggers blog
Mr Rowse, now one of the owners of a network of 125 blog sites known as b5media, has made as much as $15,000 a month from his blogs through "click through" advertising provided by Google and Chitika.
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SELaplana
May 26, 2006
Chitika eMiniMalls for Wordpress
I want to announce the availability of the Chitika eMiniMalls for Wordpress plugins which can be downloaded directly from the Chitika site.
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Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense
May 15, 2006
Chitika now has over 10,000 publishers
The folks at Chitika have started a newsletter for their publishers. The most significant announcement in the newsletter is that Chitika has passed the 10,000 publisher mark
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Shopier
May 7, 2006
Chitika Shoplinc
I just came across this site from Chitika called Shoplinc. I must say that Chitika is really innovating in online advertising once more. The eminimalls program in my opinion was just brilliant despite all the problems and publishers complaints.
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Business Blog of Mindaugas Lipskas
March 28, 2006
Chitika and Google AdSense
I started playing around with Chitika advertising network some time ago and found it to be more flexible in some ways. For example, Chitika allows you to control almost everything about advertisements displayed on website. Let's say you have website about Apple iPod. While Google will try to to the best displaying relevant ads, you will see non relevant advertisements sometime.
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Boosting Profits
January 26, 2006
Chitika Means Cash for Publishers
There are hundreds of thousands of websites on the Internet that are missing out on big money. With the emergence of the new Chitika eMiniMalls advertising company, these websites could be bringing in hundreds of dollars a day, and they don't even know it.
Read MoreProBlogger
December 13, 2005
Chitika Introduces Daily Filtering, Faster Updates and Includes more European Countries
Chitika should be happy about some of the changes announced over at the Chitika Blog today. There are two main changes:
1. Daily filtering of clicks from countries currently not supported in the eMiniMalls program: Instead of waiting till the end of the month for the audit process to filter out non-revenue earning clicks from unsupported countries, we are now filtering out those clicks from the daily reports...
ProBlogger
December 1, 2005
Chitika adds 'Alternate URL' feature
Chitika just added an 'alternate URL' feature to their eMiniMalls which allow you to run other ads in their space when they don't have any product to serve. This will be very useful for any publishers with a lot of traffic from countries not accepted by the program.
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Google Lady
December 1, 2005
How does eMiniMalls compare with Google Adsense?
Comparing the two contextual advertising programs
Chitika:
Age: A few months old
Adsense:
Age: About 3 years old
Chitika:
Size: Small but growing fast
Adsense:
Size: Market leader though there are some rumours that it has been losing publishers to YPN and Chitika.
WebForce Blog
December 1, 2005
Chitika launches contextual ads for blogs
Chitika has launched a contextual ad service for blogs.
Chitika approached me as the developer of bBlog, to see if I would be interested in incorporating their service into my software : When this gets incorporated into bblog, clicks on the ad generate revenue. You get a cut and your users (who sign up with our service) get a cut. Sounds nice for me :)
JenSense
November 28, 2005
Chitika launches eMiniMalls UK
Chitika has now launched a UK specific version of eMiniMalls.
eMiniMalls UK is now live!
Geo-targeting is on, so visitors from UK can now expect to see merchandising offers from UK merchants, while visitors from US will continue to see US offers and promotions.
StevePavlina.com
November 16, 2005
Chitika Optimization Tip - Turn Keywords Into Channels
If you use Chitika with Google Adsense, then you have to use Chitika in non-context sensitive mode (the default) in order to comply with the Adsense terms of service. So this means you have to pick your own keywords, which can be tricky...especially if you run a site that isn't product-oriented like I do and where the best-performing keywords aren't obvious at all.
Read MoreProBlogger
November 10, 2005
Chitika adds eSupport Area
Chitika has quietly been developing an eSupport area where they have latest Chitika news, Downloads (currently just a couple of plugins for MT and WP) and a knowledgebase area with a collection of tips on a variety of Chitika and eMiniMall topics. They also have opportunity to submit a ticket if you can't find the answer to your question in the knowledgebase.
Read MoreProBlogger
November 1, 2005
Chitika eMiniMalls Release Affiliate Banners
Good news for those of you who are a part of the Chitika eMiniMalls affiliate program with Chitika today providing 10 banner ads to help you promote their program. They come in a range of sizes from the small through to larger ones.
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The Teleporting Tattler
October 23, 2005
Google's first real competition : An alternative to Adsense Revenues
But these big guns were beaten to the starting gate by a relatively small company called Chitika. Chitika has sprung out of nowhere to provide an innovative new format for contextual advertising.
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Affiliate Blog by Shawn Collins
October 19, 2005
Chitika eMiniMalls - the Evolution Revolution in Contextual Ads?
Chitika eMiniMalls select the best product and provide site visitors users with robust comparative shopping information to make an informed buying decision before they leave your site. As users click, the Chitika affiliate makes money.
Read MoreJenSense
October 18, 2005
Chitika eMiniMalls search tab is compatible with AdSense
If you have disabled your eMiniMalls search tab in order to comply with AdSense terms and policies, you can re-enable it. Because it is not a web search tool, but only a product search tool within eMiniMalls, publishers are permitted to run AdSense on the same page as eMiniMalls with the search tab.
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GeekZone
October 18, 2005
Running Chitika
If you are a frequent visitor to Geekzone then you probably have noticed a new style of ads we are running as defaults for our Tribal Fusion network ads. These are from Chitika and work really well for some sites. The format we are using here is the eMiniMalls (they also have BlogContext and RealContext formats), and they can target the pages' contents, pretty much like Google AdSense. To prevent conflict with the Google AdSense TOS, we are actually not using the contextual side of this ads, and also disabling the search tab.
Read MoreProBlogger
October 14, 2005
Chitika eMiniMalls Tips
Product related sites are not the only ones reporting good returns from eMiniMalls though - I know of a variety of personal and general topic blogs and sites that are reporting better than normal earnings with eMiniMalls in comparison to other ad networks that they use.
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ReveNews
October 7, 2005
Chitika - Keeping Us Busy... And Wealthy
I've also got my eye on Chitika ... and so should you. They've got some of the smartest looking ads I've seen. You get a picture of the product, a list of places and prices to buy, and (here's the best bit)... tabs that give more information about the product when the user mouses over. Without leaving the page, the user can get a summary of the product, user reviews and a search box to look for similar products.
Read MoreProBlogger
October 5, 2005
Chitika eMiniMalls - How Much Money Do they Earn Me?
There has been a lot of positive feedback so far from those who I've referred over to the program with some people earning some significant money from it so far ... The reason I want to talk about this is simply because I really believe in this ad system - as you'll see from the figures below - it's had a pretty amazing impact upon my earnings and I'd like readers here to have the full picture of what the potential to earn money with it is ... I personally have reason to be pretty excited about eMiniMalls. If these numbers continue they will more than double my daily earnings and taken them to a level that is over $1000 per day.
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Blog Blog
October 5, 2005
Chitika eMini-Malls
Normally I stick to my technology category, but I've been playing with Chitika eMiniMalls quite a bit lately. These little babies are the hottest thing in contextual (and non-contextual depending how you set them) advertising and are popping up on blogs all around the world.
Read MoreProBlogger
September 30, 2005
Blogging Stories - How Blogs Change Lives
"I put these (the mini-malls) on my blog after reading this review a day ago and today I've earned just under $150 from them in a day! I know this will probably go down a little when my readers get used to them but it's amazing!!!
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I cannot express to you what this means to me. if the $150 per day continues I will be able to go off welfare payments at last and should be able to put my two little kids into some non 2nd hand clothes for the first time in their lives."
ProBlogger
September 28, 2005
Chitika eMiniMalls Review
Over the past few weeks I've been a part of a beta testing program of a new ad format for Chitika's eMiniMalls.
They are a new type of ad that many of you will find quite beneficial for your blogs - I know I have. You've probably seen them around. They come in a range of sizes but usually have a picture of a product and then some tabs running across the top that say 'Description', 'Best Deals', 'Reviews' and 'Search'. As you put the cursor over the top of these tabs they change what the ad shows.
Blog Marketing
September 23, 2005
Information Overload
Chitika's unique contextual ad targeting service searches multiple ad networks to find the best content-targeted revenue earning ads for websites in real time. The service is free to use. No hosting charges. No set up fees.
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Netlogged
August 26, 2005
Make money online with Chitika
Chitika - The Leader in Impulse Merchandising Chitika is the industry's leading impulse merchandising company. Chitika was founded in May 2003 and is based in Massachusetts. Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) helps web publishers generate revenue using innovative publisher-side advertising and merchandising solutions and services.
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Comparison Engines
July 11, 2005
Chitika in NYTimes - Contextual Product Merchandising
Chitika (maker of eMiniMalls) got a nice PR hit (registration required) in the NYTimes today.
The CTR for banner ads is abysmal and eMiniMalls is one way to address this. When I talked with Venkat Kolluri (CEO of Chitika) last month, he said "We offer a service to publishers where they can get the best listings from multiple ad networks. eMiniMals [sic] is all about contextual product merchandising."
Qumana Blog
June 20, 2005
New ads from Chitika move online ads to a new paradigm
As you have seen of late I have had - as most Qumana folks - Chitika ads in my posts. These have been very successful for me. It's always fun, though, to get tipped off to something new. Chitika let Qumana know late last week about their new eMiniMall ad format. I have to say that this has got to be one of the most innovative ad formats I've seen in my ten years of eMarketing.
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