Chitika Ad Unit Suite Mini-Series - post #2

ShopLinc 2.0

*Store can have constant look and feel OR it can target a specific category (above: Mother’s Day)

What is it? An attractive store front you can easily create as a “shop” page for your blog or website. You can just as easily update this store to reflect holiday and seasonal shopping: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day/Graduation, Summer Vacation, Back to School, Labor Day Weekend BBQ, Halloween, Q4 Holiday Shopping, Valentine’s Day, etc.

Who should use this? Publishers who are looking to increase their revenue with a relevant, CPC shopping page for their blog or website.

Is the original ShopLinc still available? Yes, the original ShopLinc store design is still available, however we encourage new and current ShopLinc users to test the new and improved benefits of ShopLinc 2.0.

How do I get it? Chitika users: LOGIN and click the “Get Code” tab.
Not yet a user? Sign up!

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Chitika’s Publisher Revenue Guide

This week on The Chitika Blog we are posting a mini series about the Chitika Ad Unit Suite that includes over 70+ revenue earning ad units!

The mini series starts off today with our newest ad unit:

Chitika | Premium

What is this? A smart, personalized targeting ad solution that provides premium content & is designed be your highest performing ad unit.

Who should use this? Chitika | Premium ads are a great fit for ANY website - including finance, travel, sports, etc. If you get a lot of U.S. traffic, then Chitika | Premium ads are a perfect match for you.

How it works: For 5 years Chitika has been perfecting targeting in our product based ad units. Now we are expanding your revenue opportunities beyond products. Chitika | Premium ads will only show to U.S. traffic, and since they are behaviorally targeted, they will only display to SOME U.S. users.

I come in different sizes and look like this:

How do I get it?
Chitika users: LOGIN, click your “Get Code” tab. Not yet a user? Sign up!

All mini-series posts can be found in free eBook:
Chitika’s Publisher Revenue Guide

With over 70+ power-packed revenue earning ad units, Chitika has the largest collection of revenue-generating solutions catering to publishers of all sizes. We have always been big believers in “freedom of choice” to publishers. In fact, we were the first to give publishers the freedom to hand pick product keywords for their site. We have stopped at nothing to continue providing innovative services for years.

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Mini Series
Each of our products are designed with a specific objective for our publishers. Because different publishers need different things, you simply cannot rely on one ad-type to earn you revenue. Also, what works well for one publisher may not hold true for the next; which is why starting next week we will be taking each product from The Chitika Ad Unit Suite and showing you how they each work differently on your website or blog.

This mini-series of blog posts will show you which products work for what publishers and where to use it. As you may know, Chitika now offers CPC & CPM ad units which can be found in products ranging from the Chitika | eMiniMalls Classic to Chitika For Domains.

New Ad Unit!
The series will start off with our newest and most exciting ad unit to date: Chitika | Premium Listings. This unit will have personalized targeting for your ’search’ visitors with premium listings.

Find out more on Monday about how this high-performing ad unit can help you earn even more revenue with Chitika!

Now that the Chitika Related Product Unit (RPU) is available to all Chitika publishers you may be asking yourself “Can I use the RPU with other Chitika ad units on my pages?”

The answer is yes; we actually encourage this because many of our Premium Publishers (who have been using the RPU for over a year now) have seen their revenue increase when they combine the RPU with other ad units like Chitika | eMiniMalls. Publishers are finding that placing an eMiniMalls unit followed by the RPU actually work great together:

Chitika publishers have also found that once they blended their RPU ad unit to match the look, color or fonts used on their website, it performed much better than non-customized RPUs. The RPU can be customized to match the EXACT look and feel of your site by modifying the RPU CSS.

When the Chitika | Related Product Unit (RPU) launched it was available only to select publishers for testing, during which time we received tons of great feedback on how effective this unit is for publishers. Now we are happy to say that we are ready to open up the flood gates and now our entire network has access to this unit. (Yes! This means YOU). The RPU is a simple, non-intrusive text link format that integrates right in to your content.

The RPU has instantly become one of the most successful ad units across our network. Our users experienced overall revenue increases and enjoyed its complete customization features. Publishers love this ad unit because it doesn’t “look” like an ad. Here’s an example:

Use the RPU to:

• Monetize space which has traditionally gone un-monetized
• Provide your users with a logical “next place to click”
• Keep your readers happy - the RPU is completely non-intrusive

Where RPU works
The RPU is specially designed to be placed right at the end of your blog post, review, or article. This works well because once your user has read an article, they will be looking for the next place to click. The Related Product Unit provides this for them without being invasive (it sits nicely next to, or above your “Related Articles” section - thus not disrupting the user-experience).

“While laser quality targeting is almost always a good thing, sometimes people might want to learn about similar products to the one they have been researching to make sure they are making an informed purchase. The Chitika RPU allows me to show information about other products the customer might want to research before making a purchasing decision. RPU makes me more money, and offers my readers more choices.”
-Tim Flight, GPSReview.net

Here are five ways the RPU can make you more money!

If you are a Chitika publisher, when you login, you will see your “RPU Code” tab. Here you can choose your RPU unit size, colors, product category, set channel tracking and grab your code.

If you are not yet a Chitika publisher you can sign up and also have access to all our interactive CPC ad units!

See what others are saying in the RPU Forum Discussions