Our Chitika | Premium WordPress plugin has made it easy for so many of you to add Chitika | Premium to your blogs, but it is limited in customizations.

Not anymore! As of version 1.3 we’ve made it easy to customize more about the placement appearance of your ads.

You already know you can change the size, colors and placement (above and below) but with just a snippet of code added to your style.css file in your theme you can really make the display your own.

Add Space

Is your ad too close to the post?

Just add the following lines to your style.css file:

.chitika-adspace { margin: 10px 0;}

It will add some visual space, or white space, above and below the ad.

Center your Ad

Don’t like the way your ad looks aligned to the left? Why not center it?

Add this line to your style.css

.chitika-adspace { text-align:center; }

Your Ad Can Fly Right

Do you want your ad to appear to the right of your post?

There’s a couple steps to accomplish this:

1. First you’ll have to choose your placement to be above or both
2. Then choose an ad size with a smaller width
   For this placement style we recommend the 250×250 Square or 180 x 300 ad size

Once you’ve done that, just add the following line to your style.css file:

.chitika-adspace.aboveboth, .chitika-adspace.above  { float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px; }

We also think this option looks cool with a 120 x 600 skyscraper ad (above positioning only) - it’s almost like adding a dedicated sidebar to display ads only to your search traffic!

CSS Classes For You CSS Pros

For those of you who are familiar with style sheets or coding style sheets the plugin now adds the following classes to the divs containing the ads:

• chitika-adspace (all ads)
• above (above only)
• below (below only)
• aboveboth (above when both are displayed)
• belowboth (below when both are displayed)

Have you done anything like this with your ads?

Tell us about your customizations in the comments below!

Another update to your favorite Chitika | Premium WordPress plugin went out earlier today.  The new upgrade to version 1.3 is available for download now from the WordPress Plugin Directory:

Three new features in this upgrade are:

• Advanced channel tracking
• Limit Chitika | Premium to display only on permalinks (so they do not clutter up your homepage or category archive)
• Chitika | Premium username reminder

Advanced Channel Tracking

In addition to using a customizable channel name you can now also have the Chitika | Premium WordPress plugin add ‘above’, ‘below’, ‘above - both’ and ‘below - both’ to your channel names simply by checking a box.

Why would I want to do that? Now you can change your setting in the plugin and always know in your reports where the plugin placed the ads. You can track your ads performance this way. For Example: if you choose to display Premium ads above and below your posts, your reports can show you which placement was more successful ‘channel name above - both’ or ‘channel name below - both’ letting you decide if you want to continue to display your ads using that configuration or if you’d like to change them up to find your best placement CTR.

Only Display Ads on Permalink Pages

Chitika | Premium ads are set to display whenever you full post is displayed. If your homepage or archive pages display more than one full post the Chitika | Premium plugin will display Chitika ads for each post. Some of our users prefer to only show on a permalink page because that’s where most of their search traffic lands and this helps keep their CTR more accurate.

Did You Remember to Enter your Username?

When you first install the Chitika | Premium WordPress plugin a demo username is used in place of your Chitika account username. You’ll need to change that in order to receive credit for your clicks. The built in reminder will let you know if you forget to enter your username. We want you to receive your credit (where credit is due!)

So go on, download the update to the Chitika | Premium WordPress plugin.

We know you are busy getting ready for the holidays (as are we), so we thought it would be a good idea to offer you a tool to help you save some time, so you can tend to more important things (like, eating lots of left-over turkey!):

Here is your new WordPress Plugin for Chitika | Premium so you can get Premium ads on your website easy and fast!

What is Chitika Premium?

* CPC Search Targeted ad Unit (see how it works here)
* High-targeted relevant ad that converts into high eCPM.
* Use on the same page as Google Adsense. Learn More.

***UPDATE: Version 1.3 now available with various fixes/improvements.  See full list here.

Always check our WordPress page for up to date information.

Developed by Chitika.

This is the sidebar widget for Wordpress v2.0+. Using this widget, you can drag-n-drop a Chitika eMiniMall onto your sidebar with ZERO knowledge of HTML!

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Total Downloads: 1050
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Installation Instructions:

• Download the Chitika eMiniMalls widget using the “Download” button below OR from here (http://chitika.com/docs/eminimall-wp-widget.zip)
• Unzip the zip file into a temporary directory.
• Copy the eminimall-widget.php file to your WordPress installation directory under “\wp-content\plugins“
• Make sure you have installed the Sidebar Widgets plugin (which is required for the Chitika eMiniMalls widget to operate
  correctly). You can find the plugin and its installation instructions at: http://automattic.com/code/widgets/.
• Login to your Wordpress Admin page, go to Plugins, and click the Activate link for the “Chitikia eMiniMall Widget” plugin.
• Go to Presentation > Sidebar Widgets. Drag the “eMiniMall 1″ box from the available widgets onto your active sidebar. Click the small icon to popup a box where you can configurate the eMiniMall. In the configuration box, moving the mouse over any of the ?’s will get you helpful tips. Make sure that you enter your correct Chitika Account id.
• If you’d like to add another eMiniMall to the sidebar, scroll down to the bottom of the Sidebar Arrangement page, and set the
  box that says “How many eMiniMalls do you want” to whatever number you wish. Now you’ll have another “eMiniMall” which you can drag onto the sidebar and configure seperately.

System Requirements:

• WordPress v2.0 or later
• SideBar widget Plugin installed and activated

Support:If you run into any issues or have any questions, please open a ticket at: https://chitika.com/support/

Developer: Joomlaspan

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How does the module work? It basically has all the features of Chitika eMinimalls built in. Instead of getting the ad code from the Chitika code generator and pasting it (which may lead to problems with some text editors), the user just selects the options in the Joomla administration backend and installing it. Using the same installation, users can have as many instances of the ads as they want and totally control the ads from within their Joomla! admin backend.

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Developer: Chris Howard

This plugin helps you customize keywords using blog post categories! Thanks Chris your amazing!

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