Hello Chitika friends and neighbors, we’ve got an exciting announcement to make - we’re giving away five Dell Mini 9 Netbooks to new Chitika | Premium publishers! Here’s the deal - you’re eligible to win one of the netbooks if you:

1 - Sign up for a Chitika | Premium ad account between today (8/17/09) and the end of August (must sign up before 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, August 31st, 2009), and…

2 - Earn at least $50 through Chitika | Premium between now and the end of September.

Publishers, if you’re not on the Chitika bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? There’s never been a better time to try Chitika | Premium, the search-based ad network that turns search traffic into revenue for you! Join the over 50,000 publishers making money with Chitika | Premium!

And to our existing publishers, this is a great way to use your affiliate links! Remember, whenever you refer someone who signs up for Chitika | Premium, you earn 10% of what they earn for 15 months. They earn, they might win a netbook, and you earn as well!

So everyone repeat after me: “Make money money, make money money money!”

One of my favorite TV shows is The Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters - for those of you unfamiliar, the concept of the show is that the hosts and a team of sidekicks confront popular myths (”The moon landing was faked!“) and test them out to see if they’re true, possibly true, or untrue (”busted”).

I love this idea, especially for a company like us here at Chitika; now, we’re not going to blow something up with a ton of dynamite like the Mythbusters crew, but I wanted to confront a few myths about Chitika in something I like to call:

Let’s get started!

“Chitika & AdSense can’t run on the same page”

Absolutely, completely, 100% not true. All of our ad units, including our Chitika | Premium ads, are designed so they can run on the same page as AdSense without violating their Terms of Service. You don’t have to alter the Chitika code at all to make it AdSense-compatible - every piece of ad code you generate from your Chitika code panel is already AdSense-compatible. You can read more about this question in a previous blog post, or you can check out the article in our knowledgebase with links to articles from specific publishers.

“Chitika is a ‘replacement’ for AdSense”

Again, this is not true. Chitika’s ads are not a replacement for your AdSense ads, and any ad network telling you to replace your AdSense with their product will probably cost you revenue. Our ads are meant to be a complement to your AdSense revenue, for a number of reasons:

• The look-and-feel of the ads are different, so any readers that have developed an “ad-blindness” to AdSense will be more receptive to the Chitika ads and more likely to earn you more revenue than AdSense alone.
• Ad targeting is handled differently, so different content will be shown. Chitika’s ads are all keyword-based including our Premium ads, which use a reader’s search term (the search term they entered to get to your page) as the keyword.
• Our Premium ads will only display when relevant, so it opens up a world of new placement options. When a user is not coming to your page from a search (like users that have your site bookmarked), we will not serve an ad and the ad does not appear, so you can place the ad unit within your content and your “regular” readers will not even know it’s there. Here’s a very informative graph on this very issue.

  I think we can call that…
  

  “Chitika only does product ads!”

  I will quickly call this one not true, as well. Since it’s release back in May, our Chitika Premium ads have helped us go way, way beyond product sites by serving ads for anything you can imagine.

  
  

  These ads help sites of all types make money, from the b5media network of over 300 sites, to sites such as bankaholic.com.

  Once again…
  

For absolutely no reason at all, and with no prompting whatsoever, we here at Chitika wanted to mention our referral programs. We have one of the longest and highest-yielding referral programs of any advertising company. In fact, we have two!

Publisher Referral Program

By referring others to the Chitika program you will earn 10% of what they earn for 15 months! (Don’t worry, the 10% comes from Chitika, not your friends; they get the same amount) Any Chitika publisher can benefit from our referral program. Spread the word with one of our referral banners (as seen above), pass out your referral link, or by using our ads - the “Chitika” link in the top right corner of our ad units is also a referral link!

Advertiser Referral Program

Chitika users can earn referral revenue for advertisers they bring to our network. You’ll earn $25.00 once your advertiser referral reaches $100.00 spent in their ad campaign, and there is no limit to the number of referrals you can generate each month.

Not yet a user? Sign up now!

We are happy to announce that with our new Advertiser Referral Program all Chitika users can earn referral revenue for advertisers they bring to the Chitika network alongside our Publisher Referral Program and of course, your monthly revenue payments from our product services.

Why promote Chitika as a platform to advertisers?
Chitika collectively serves over 2 billion impressions and reaches over 20 million uniques each month. You’ll earn $25.00 once your advertiser referral reaches $100.00 spent in their ad campaign, and there is no limit to the number of referrals you can generate each month.

Login, and get your referral link/button under “Referral Programs“.

Not yet a user? Sign up in minutes!

Publishers around the world are enjoying easy referral cash along with their regular monthly revenue checks & it could be easier than you think. By sending others to the Chitika program you will earn 10% of what they earn for 15 months! Don’t worry, the 10% comes from Chitika, not your friends. Any Chitika publisher can benefit from our referral program.

Get going 3 easy ways…

• Grab your Referral Banner.

You can get your referral enabled banner when you log in. Click ‘Referral Program’ then ‘Promotional Banners’.


• Copy your referral link.

Tell your friends to join Chitika by hyperlinking your referral link to an image or text on your page. Make sure it is clear that it’s a referral link to join the Chitika program!


• Use the Multi-Product Unit!

All multi-product units are referral enabled! So when a visitor clicks on the “Chitika | eMiniMalls” link in the top right corner of the unit and is approved for Chitika, you will earn 10% referral revenue for 15 months!



ALREADY A USER? Start by signing in to your account.
NOT YET A MEMBER? Sign up for your own now!

Get $1.00 for each of your Facebook friends.
By promoting the newest referral banner on your blog or website you will instantly receive $1.00 each time you refer someone to add the iBought application to their Facebook account. Example: 20 referrals = $20.00!
Give a warm welcome to the Chitika | iBought Referral Program!

Why you should do this and do it now.
This promotional offer will be given to the first 10,000 downloads only. That means Chitika is giving away $10,000 in total for referral revenue on Facebook!

Get your referral code here!

Why your referrals will love iBought.
With Chitka | iBought you can share what products you purchased recently with your friends and give them access to best deals to your product. Don’t forget to tell your friends how you feel; give their purchases a thumbs up or thumbs down if you don’t like it! And best of all, you and your friends will get access to deals from name brand merchants for each product bought.

Login and click ‘Reports’ then ‘Facebook Referral Program’ to get your referral banner:

On this page you can access the code for your promo banner and check your referral rewards revenue.

Not a Chitka publisher? Sign up now to take advantage of this limited time deal!

Get your referral code here!

The publishers!!! (Mini wave in celebration of you!)

Who says nothing in life is free?
Does earning some easy extra cash each month sound good to you? Course it does, which is why we went all out this year by giving our users referral commission for 15 months, instead of 12. The gift that keeps on giving each month, not just once!

Chitika’s referral program wins for you!
How did Chitika earn it’s #1 spot in the referral program category? It was a close one, the nomineese were really good, we weren’t sure if we had it.. we gave our users 10% referral commission for 12 months. But right in the end we stole the victory by giving a 15 month referral commission! By offering you 10% of your referrals revenue for the first 15 months they use Chitika, we have made some users very happy. Fact: “There are some Chitika users who are making thousands from referrals alone!”
In English, what this means for you.

Scenario 1: If you refer 1 user with a Chitika revenue that accumulates to $40.00 a month; $600.00 in 15 months. You will earn $60.00. Now, if you refer two users with this revenue amount, you get $120.00!! Imagine the amount you could be receiving if you had 5, 10, 15 referrals! Just for telling some friends about Chitika!

Scenario 2: Refer a user who accumulates $100.00 a month; $1500.00 in 15 months. You will earn $150.00 just for referring them! Double, even triple that with just 2 or 3 referrals!!! There is no limit to the amount you can earn. Get $50.00 or $5,000. That number depends on you!

How can you refer someone?
Get a Chitika account- it’s easy, sign up!
Have one? Login, click on Referral Program, and here you can choose from 16 promotional banner sizes. Or use your referral link in text form to catch some referrals. Your link is right there for you to grab when you click on Referral Program. It will look something like this:

https://chitika.com/mm overview.php?refid=yourIDhere

Are you still here? What are you waiting for?

The #1 referral program on the Internet just came with extra protection, for everyone.

With the holiday shopping season upon us, you are probably faced with a tragic fact:

My October 2005 referral revenue stream is coming to an end thanks to the 12 month limit on the referral program!

Slam! Right smack in the middle of the holiday shopping season. We simply could not let that happen.

We just extended the referral revenue stream from 12 to 15 months! For example: If you referred someone in October 2005, your referral revenue will continue through January 2007.

On the same lines, if you refer someone now, your referral revenue stream will continue through January 2008 (thus keeping you safe through the 2007 shopping season as well!)

Who does this benefit the most?
Anyone who referred publishers to Chitika during Q4 last year (2005). Without this change, that revenue stream would essentially have stopped this month (and next) — thus missing out on the upcoming holiday shopping season. This change eliminates that problem for those referrers.Happy Holiday Shopping!

The hot new Multi-Product Unit has just gotten even better! In order to maximize the revenue from your eMiniMall Multi-Product Units to their fullest potential, (drum roll ….please) we have now referral-link enabled all multi-product units.

That means, when someone clicks on the “Chitika eMiniMalls” link at the top right of your multi-product unit, signs up & receives an approval for Chitika eMiniMalls, you will be on your way to earning 10% of your referrals revenue for the first 12 months!

Chitika, offer’s the #1 referral program which allows you to start receiving your cash as soon as you reach $10.00 for paypal, or $50.00 for check payments. There is no limit to the amount of referrals, or revenue, you can receive!

You can now generate referral revenue right from your MPU unit or by using any one of our standard referral banners.

Currently all Multi Product eMiniMall units are referral link enabled. All other eMiniMalls units will be referral link enabled soon.

Login now to select any of our 5 multi-product unit sizes and be part of the number one referral program …today!

We just released over 10 different banners that our affiliates can use to promote eMiniMalls and refer publishers. Check out the sample 180×150 banner:

The following banner units are also available:
180×160, 120×90, 120×60, 120×240, 125×125, 110×32, 88×31, 80×15 , and 468×60.

Please login to your account and click on the “Referral Program” link to access the customized code for your referral banners.
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Update:

• Added a few more formats. Specifically, 729×90, 300×250, 250×250, 120×600, 160×600 and 160×160.
• The background is now transparent and so can be used on non-white website backgrounds.