Preview before you paste- Linx on your blog

November 6th, 2007

Posted in: PPC Ad Units

The engineers at Chitika have been hard at work making some cool changes to one of our ad products: Chitika | Linx. In addition to making appearance changes to the ad unit, they gave the code panel a pretty nice face lift.

Once I heard this, I jumped at the chance to be the first one to test it out to make sure it is usable for everyone. I went in and played around with the code on a test blog of mine and came up with these issues right away:

1. It was completely unclear how Linx was going to even look on my blog and I wanted to know before pasting in the code.
2. There needed to be different codes for different types of blogging platforms like: WordPress, Blogger and Typepad.

A day later, the issues were fixed. Now the code for each blogging platform is already generated for you -just copy it! There’s also a cool preview tool that shows you exactly how Linx will look on your blog. All you have to do is type in your blog URL and a live preview appears like magic right in the code panel, you have to try it out :)

So how has the appearance of Linx improved?

What do you think? You can check it out live because Chitika | Linx is now open to all users! Log in, click the “Linx code” tab and type in your blog URL to see how it will look :)

Is Linx missing something? If you tell me I may be able to get the engineers to add new features to it! Comments are open!

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14 Responses to “Preview before you paste- Linx on your blog”

1. Rick Blythe Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

   Great job on the new linx ads guys!

   They are blindly fast!

2. Alfred Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

   Great. Just wonder if Linx can use along with Google Adsense. Have you guys check with them?

3. Chitika Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

   Hey Alfred, great question…

   Yes. You can use it with Google Adsense. Based on the changes in the terms of service of Google (in the last few months), we believe this is 100% compatible. However, if you do feel insecure about it, you should contact Google to ask. Again, as you can see, these units look nothing like Google Adsense, so I would be really surprised if Google has a problem with this.

   The main goal here is to give you an additional revenue stream besides Google Adsense. And Chitika Linx does this without requiring any redesign of your website .. (in fact, I have seen people who don’t understand html be able to quickly start using this new format)

   If you contact Google- come on back and let everyone else know if there are issues with compatibility! Thanks.

   -Karla

4. Bilal Says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

   Is it possible to decide what products will be shown, by somehow choosing categories or actual products?

5. Scott Says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

   Bilal -

   You can currently choose exactly which keywords Linx will look for, and turn off contextual mode. Linx can also filter by category like our other products (eMiniMalls for example).

   What exactly would you like Linx to do?

   Scott

6. Bilal Says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

   In my particular case it would be best if only men’s fashion related products (men’s clothing and accessories and men’s grooming products) would me shown. How could I achieve that?

   Should I manually change code to add category and turn off contextual mode? Is it possible to add queries to code that would trigger only certain products?

   Thanks!

7. Scott Says:
   November 8th, 2007 at 11:36 am

   Currently you can use the keywords variable to highlight only the terms you want, and turn contextual off.

   We’ll enable a feature in our next Linx push to better integrate categories in. In other words, you can tell Linx to only work with a category such as men’s fashion, and it will highlight words from the category, and show appropriate ads.

8. skiper Says:
   November 11th, 2007 at 12:13 am

   will this linx not conflict on kontera ads ? or can it be use along with kontera ads ?

9. Chitika Says:
   November 11th, 2007 at 10:40 am

   skiper,

   Chitika has no restrictions to using Linx with Kontera, but you may need to contact Kontera to make sure they allow you to use them with Chitika Linx.

10. Paul Slater Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 8:49 am

    Thanks for keeping on improving Chitika. I need to get up to date on my websites with some of your new developments.

    Onward with purpose,
    Chaplain Paul Slater

11. The Chitika Blog » Blog Archive » eMiniMalls update - your votes about the style changes Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    […] ______________________ Want more exciting ad unit updates? Chitika | Linx gets a makeover!    […]

12. The Chitika Blog » Blog Archive » Chitika’s Holiday Shopping PPC Tools Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    […] Linx has recently undergone an image/code panel makeover for the better according to our happy publishers. And yes, the new Linx can be used along with Google Adsense on your pages. […]

13. The Chitika Blog » Blog Archive » Linx Puts its Money Where its Mouth Is Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    […] Chitika’s new stylish in-text ad unit Linx was released to the entire Chitika publisher network just one month ago. Many of our members took the code right away to test how Linx compared to their other in-text ad’s and were very happy with the results. […]

14. Kontera Support Says:
    March 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    Use of Chitika Linx is a violation of your Kontera TOS and is not tolerated in any shape or form.

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