NEW! Now when you login to your Chitika account and click on your Reports, we are now providing a breakdown of how your Chitika ads are doing in different parts of the world. You will be able to see how well your ad units did for your US Traffic, All Supported Countries, and Non-US Supported Countries so YOU will know where to focus your efforts to increase your revenue:
Just a reminder, here is a list of our supported countries: (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, UK, US).
ConsumerSearch.com, one of our favorite publisher clients, was sold to About for $33m in cash, according to this post on ComparisonEngines.com (via NYTimes) announcing this deal.
Hats off to Derek, Max, and the team! It is always great to hear and share a success story.
We have invited the best of the blogosphere in house to take over the Chitika Blog for the month of April! A new post every day from 30 different guest blogging gurus!
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You will not see any boring “blogging 101″ posts! Enjoy tips and explore insights about a variety of unique and interesting topics like, “Dare to be Odd” and “Shopping and Blogging: How to make the marriage work.”
Chitika Creative Creations is a new contest we started in February, 2007 to reward all of you who have some pretty cool Chitika ad integrations! We have been shuffling through our 12,000+ publisher network on the lookout for the best integrations and in the meantime we invited everyone to submit theirs if they thought they had what it takes to be a winner. Turns out, you did!
The second winner of Chitika Creative Creations is: www.froomb.com!
Froomb.com is, “Saving the world. One deal at a time” by offering a really cool “deal of the day” directory for all of you shopping lovers!
“I have integrated a number of Chitika eMiniMalls in such a way that they appear to be part of the content rather than ads. The approach has done very well for me.”
WHAT HE DID FOR YOU ON CHITIKA SPHERE
Ryan has made it possible for any Chitika member to receive expert advice on their Chitika ad implementation for their blog/websites. “It’s simple, post your URL’s and I’ll help you make the most from eMiniMalls, RPU, ShopLinc & ShopCloud$ 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
Starting this month, we are on the lookout for you! Continuously shuffling through our 12,000+ network looking for your excellent Chitika product integrations to be featured as our next winner!
Do your ads stand out on your page? Have you integrated your ShopLinc fantastically into your website that it screams “I WIN”?
Then we just may have a prize for you!
Tim Flight of GPSReview.net has doubled his revenue! Let’s hear a few words from this much liked Chitika publisher shall we?
Tim has been a successful Chitika user for 9 months. He has a fantastic GPS site in which he has integrated eMiniMalls wonderfully! So what does he like about Chitika?
“Chitika gives me the ability to provide targeted ads 100% of the
time. With purely contextual advertising solutions ad relevancy is
often a challenge. Jeremy Wright (President of b5media) mentioned
recently that the future of online advertising is to be able to
provide the right ad, to the right visitor, at the right time. With
Chitika’s eMinMalls I can decide exactly what ad to display. Although
this takes more work initially to setup, the benefits are staggering.”
Doubling your revenue with Chitika in one month’s time is amazing, how did it happen?
“On May 1st I implemented a new template. The “wireframe” of the site really wasn’t much different from the new site to the old. Frankly, I was a little worried at first about the new template not knowing how it might impact my CTR. Thankfully my CTR didn’t drop, in fact it increased about 50%.
The changes I made were not major and the overall positioning and
number of ads didn’t change. I went through my site and tried to
think of my site from the visitor’s perspective. I asked myself “What
type of information would a consumer be most interested in at this
point on the page” and picked the eMiniMall which best presented that
information.”
If you were given control for a day, what would you improve in Chitika?
“I would like to see an “Expanded Blog Banner”. I would make it about 468×250 and on the ‘Best Deals’ tab increase the number of offers shown to five rather than three stores. Even if the additional offers would earn less per click it would provide a better service to my visitors.”
When he’s not dedicating his time to his website, what does he do for fun? Wait! Do people actually spend time away from their computer?
“I enjoy lots of outdoor activities. I enjoy snowboarding and
snowshoeing in the Winter. During the summer I can most often be
found on my mountain bike. When not doing those things I enjoy
flying. A few years ago I got my private pilot license so I can chase
down those “$100 hamburgers” and go to fly-ins. I think part of May’s earnings will go towards a new kayak. There are many lakes around this area of Maine to explore.”
For those of us who are not quite sure what snowshoeing is (had to look it up myself).. snowshoes are used for walking in the snow, guiding you by balancing your weight so you do not sink into high piles of snow. People enjoy snowshoeing for recreational purposes, like our friend Tim Flight here, & others, for exercise.
What websites do you like to visit in your free time?
“Space.com, NOAA, and anything to do with earth science or maps. I’m a bit of a weather/science junkie. I could (okay some days I do) spend hours looking at weather maps, planetary maps, topographic maps, etc. Earth science fascinates me so GPS is a natural extension of that passion.”
Tim Flight will be happy to know I did my homework.. NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration).
And hey, we all have our guilty pleasures, mine is eBay, shh.
