WHAT HE DID FOR YOU ON CHITIKA SPHERE
Ryan has made it possible for any Chitika member to receive expert advice on their Chitika ad implementation for their blog/websites. “It’s simple, post your URL’s and I’ll help you make the most from eMiniMalls, RPU, ShopLinc & ShopCloud$ on your pages.” -Ryan
I then found the Chitika forum and got great site optimisation from some people on it, namely Ryan, who has been a great ambassador and extremely friendly, helpful and really knows his stuff. Hats off to him. At this stage I had optimised my eMiniMalls to earn me about 50% more. -adscorp
Putting a face to a great website
We got the chance to meet with one of our publishers here at Chitika, Tim Flight of GPSReview.net, when he came by for a visit!
We took the opportunity to help him take GPSReview.net, “to the next level”, as Tim would say.
“A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Chitika offices. If any other publishers get the opportunity to do this, jump at the chance as it will probably be a great use of your time…”
LATE TO THE PARTY? That’s OK
November 2006, we opened the “Submit your URL for Expert Otimizations” post on our official forum, Chitka SPHERE. This became our largest and most popular topic in the forum. You couldn’t wait to receive tips from Chitika experts on how to optimize your site for the holidays so we extended our optimizations submissions post on SPHERE indefinitely!
For most of you, our best performing ad unit, the 468×180 will fit nicely in your blog column.
It’s important not to forget that your visitors typically don’t look below the fold on your page.
Avoid placing your ad units at the very top banner ad spot and the left sidebar for maximum performance.
Put yourself in your visitors shoes & show products you know they will be interested in.
Expert optimization works!
The launch of our forum, Chitika SPHERE, marked the beginning of a fun, group-oriented discussion between the staff here at Chitika and our publishers. We put together this large informal discussion to help all our users optimize their websites using eMiniMalls & other services. This became the starting point for a series of publisher success stories. In fact, more than 200 publishers have benefited from this. Because of this amazing success, we are now extending our optimization help on SPHERE till, well, maybe forever.
Working with the Chitika staff has been one of my most pleasurable affiliate experiences. I’ve found them innovative, responsive and personable. -Gail, digicamhelp.com
The TechFresh.network asked for expert help & doubled their revenue over night! Watch how:
The optimization that Ryan helped us do virtually doubled our revenue over night! -JErm, techfresh.net
Sitting at my desk this morning, like every morning, going through my daily routine, email, phone messages, call backs, coffee, notes, headphones, coffee, ebay, and catching up on some blogs, is when it hit me.. what if there was a place to blog away from blogging? Once you have established a blog or blogs, you have put on a mind set about a blog subject, but what about blogging itself?
Have you ever, right in the middle of blogging, come up with a great idea and wished you could tell someone about it? You’ve crossed your 50th blog post woohoo! And think to yourself, I like blogging and I have become pretty good at it. I could teach someone a thing or two.
While I am blogging, sometimes I wish I could re-think my blog tone and just talk about something else..
a blogging journal of some sort would be nice. And with that, a place to write about blogging, is born..
Bloggers, beginners, underdogs, whatever you wish to be known as.. you are living proof there is dollars in blogging. And Chitika believes this so much, that our mission statement is literally: Blog$.
This blogging guide titled: Blog$, was designed by me, to be filled in by other bloggers, you. Here, just about anything goes. So please share what you have to offer about the ‘art of blogging’.
I have broken up the stages of blogging into 3 sections from beginnger to expert, in what I think each should be under. These can be changed, moved around, taken away or added to. Just speak up!
Right now other Chitika users are receiving expert optimization for their blog/websites to increase their revenue on Chitika SPHERE! By simply submitting your url(s), a Chitika expert will give you individual expert advice for the holiday season!
Join all the Chitika members who have already received individual expert advice from Chitika, and make the most you can this holiday season! Jump in & increase your Chitika revenue!
SPHERE SUCCESS!
The Chitika forum has become such a fantastic place to exchange tips along with great experience point-of-views, that I almost wish we opened it sooner. Whether you are a beginner “Chitikan”, a proud long-standing user or a non-user, the forum has a little something for everyone.
What Chitika SPHERE has brought to the blogosphere is real members with real solutions to help you make the right optimization choices and increase your site revenue.
BE IN THE KNOW.
What SPHERE does ultimately is bring awareness to those who may have heard about Chitika and want to learn more. I believe it is the #1 resource to learn about what Chitika is all about and how it will benefit you. With the revamp of the website, we wanted to accomplish one thing: That when you come to chitika.com to be able to find out in 30 seconds who we are, what we offer and what is new as of today. What SPHERE brings to this message, is proof that these features work and how to make the best use of each service Chitika offers, using “pearls of wisdom” from actual member experiences.
Chitika SPHERE becomes a success with many publisher requests!
Our goal when we launched Chitika SPHERE, was to create an in-house forum for Chitika members to meet, talk about what works for them, what doesn’t and share some tips and tricks. Chitika SPHERE has become this and more!
We have created a personal environment for members to interact with Chitika engineers & client service employees to request some cool new stuff. This has been a great resource for us to hear what you have to say!
4 immediate actions we took:
New RPU sizes.
In addition to our current size: 468×120, we have added the following new sizes: 468×90, 300×250 and 250×250. View them all here. You can get the new sizes by logging into the code generator.
“Thank you for introducing the new sizes. We recently implemented the 300×250 on one of our sites. After gathering statistics over the past few days, it was determined that we experienced a 13% increase in average page eCPM since adding the unit.”-leapforward
If you do not currently use RPU’s, but would like to, check out the criteria requirments our client services rep Ryan Travis has put together, here.
Default tab options.
Tim Flight, from gpsreview.net asked, “I would like to see the default tab parameter “ch_default_tab” expanded so that we can specify more than one tab to use as a fallback in case other tabs happen to not be available.”
Read the solution from Chitika SPHERE’s EngineeringGrunt here.
We introduced ShopCloud$ as a new test product exclusively through the forum, and received many requests to try it out! One of the many great reasons to be part of the forum! So what are you waiting for! Register, and be part of the group who gets to try new things first from Chitika!
This is the start of many new features we hope to offer our users! The only way to make sure you are taking full advantage of the Chitika staff is to register.
Another reason to dote upon our service? Uh, why not! (gulp. smile. eyes wide. pride showing) We gladly put our best foot forward.
Our absolute favorite thing to do here at Chitika, is personally reach out to our publishers. We can’t help it. We like to be able to put a name, face and personality to a publisher ID and website. We want to know what you like to do in your spare time. And we’ll tell you too, just ask!
Some of our publishers already know this about us, because we work closely with most of them already. So we thought to ourselves, “how can we get to know everyone, even those that may be a little computer shy? I’ve got an idea!
An online community, one where people are already used to going and are comfortable with. I’ll call it a…… forum!”
For those who have not yet checked out Chitika SPHERE, you are missing out on some great discussions between our publishers and the Chitika staff. Once you do, you will see we have made sure it has a personal touch to it. No questions will go unanswered, and if you can manage to stump us on a question, we will try our best anyway. Hey, we are human too.
“Finally there’s a place I can go to meet other Chitika members, hear their success stories, learn some tips and tricks I didn’t even know about and share my own ideas!”
