Chitika - In The Blogosphere
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May 15, 2008
Chitika Interactive Premium Listing Units
May 12, 2008
New Chitika Premium Ad Units
May 8, 2008
Chitika Premium Ads Promise Highest eCPM
May 7, 2008
TiECON Chitika Blogpreneur Contest
April 16, 2008
Chitika Add Interactive Premium Listing Ads Into the Mix
April 12, 2008
Chitika WhiteSpaceAd for Wide Screens
March 31, 2008
How well do Chitika ads work? Interviews with Jeff Sable (Chitika) and Gail Bjork (Digicamhelp.com)
March 28, 2008
Chitika Announces a New Way to Monetize Parked Domains
March 28, 2008
Chitika Launches Domain Parking Program
March 27, 2008
Monetize Parked Domains with Chitika
March 27, 2008
Chitika for Domainers
March 18, 2008
10 Random Reflections on SXSWi 2008
March 15, 2008
SXSW 2008 Recap - It Rawked!
March 2, 2008
Chitika RPU Now Available for All Publishers
March 2, 2008
Chitika Releases Related Product Unit (RPU)
February 17, 2008
Six Defining Moments of a ProBlogger
Discovering Chitika
February 13, 2008
Interview with Chitika’s Ryan Travis
February 12, 2008
Chitika Introduce Viral Branding Units
February 12, 2008
Chitika Launches Viral Branding Units: VBU Can Comment, Share and Rate
January 22, 2008
How to really make money with Web 2.0
January 15, 2008
Bloggers get Creative to Make Dough
August 15, 2007
Chitika eMiniMalls - More Money in Your Pocket
August 14, 2007
Chitika eMiniMalls - Are they worth it?
August 10, 2007
Ian Fernando
Great Earnings with Chitika eMiniMalls
July 31 2007
New Study: Top 50k blogs had $500 million in 2006 Revenue
July 12th, 2007
Chitika Reviews - eMiniMalls, RPU and Chitika Linx
Customer Service
April 19, 2007
Lost Ball in High Weeds
Chitika Blog
April 18, 2007
PJLightHouse
Chitika Affiliate : Integrating eMiniMalls with your site’s content Tips
I got an email fom Chitika on how to improve and will hopefully make my site merchandising units more effective.. check out some of these tips if you are a Chitika member too. Tip #1: Integrate eMiniMalls with your site’s content Read More
March 15, 2007
The Blog Herald
What Advertising Method Works Best With Your Blog?
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger shares How I Make Money from Blogs - My Top Earners.
“The key point that isn’t quite emphasized enough in his post is that not all types of ads work for every blog. He mentions that Chitika does very well for him, but not on ProBlogger. He uses it on his digital photography blog where posts on products are more inline with the advertiser’s purpose.” Read More
March 12, 2007
Chitika Releases MySpace Codes
“Chitika (aff), known for the eMiniMalls affiliate scheme thats familiar to most bloggers, is targeting the MySpace demographic. We actually saw this product popping up a week ago, but now we have the details from the company itself.”
Read More
March 1, 2007
Quick Online tips
Chitika Owna : Feature Products on Myspace
“Chitika, well known for revolutionizing the interactive product advertising scenario, has launched a new tool called Chitika Owna which will let Myspace users feature Chitika advertised products on their blogs and earn money.” Read More
January 31, 2007
Joel Comm’s eMiniMalls Secrets
Chitika eMiniMalls Secrets 2nd Edition
“…Chitika has gone through a number of important changes. The old ad products are just as innovative and just as effective as ever. But there are a whole bunch of new products available too. In addition to being able to place highly targeted, eye-catching CPC ad units on Web pages that contain AdSense, publishers using Chitika can now offer Multiple Products in one ad. They can place text links to related products at the bottom of a article. And, most importantly, they can create an entire CPC store stuffed with all the products they could want. Chitika is changing all the time. Barely a week seems to go by without the company doing something to make life even easier for its publishers.” Read More: http://www.chitikasecrets.com/
December 14, 2006
Joel Comm’s Christmas Gift
Contextual AD Systems- Earning Beyond AdSense
Chitika’s eMiniMalls however, does something completely different - and you can use it in conjuction with AdSense.”
“You can contextualize your page to suit your ads instead of hoping for ads that match your content.
That’s attractive enough - especially if you’re planning to use Chitika in conjuntion with AdSense - but even that’s not Chitika’s biggest advantage.
The number one reason that you need to know about Chitika is that the ads are so cool! eMiniMalls has managed to turn graphic ads into interesting, interactive, info-packed bundles of fun that users find irresistible. And they pay too.”
November 17, 2006
Chitika ShopLincs/ShopCloud
Another nifty feature in Chitika ShopCloud$ is the fact that it has an AJAX Search feature which also helps increase the CTR and revenue. I bet that this is definitely going to lead to more clicks and revenue for the Chitika ShopLinc users!
Read More
October 30, 2006
The New Chitika ShopCloud$ Ad System
Chitika has a new advertising product for web site publishers to use. I just found out about it recently and wanted to become a beta tester - but, even better, it’s been released to eMiniMalls publishers for use on their sites. It’s called ShopCloud$, and it is a neat, new interactive tool for Chitika affiliate advertisers. Read More
September 19, 2006
ProBlogger
Chitika eMiniMalls Advice from Chitika
Ryan over at The Chitika Blog has posted some helpful tips for bloggers just starting out with Chitika in his Chitika eMiniMalls Blogging Toolkit post. It includes some nice tips for getting set up on different platforms as well as some more general tips.
Read More
September 6, 2006
More Blog Monetizing Options
Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising programme because it can serve very detailed advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in different tabs: one for “Best deals”, another for “details”, another for “reviews” and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher.
September 6, 2006
Managing Multiple Chitika eMinimalls Ads in WordPress
So, it shouldn’t be surprising to find bloggers who want to place multiple Chitika ads on the same page - all of which targeted via the same keywords to maximize context. But if you use the default approach of the various Chitika plugins available for WordPress (i.e. in-post tags like [eminimall]), you will have to enter keywords manually for each ad you place within the post (unlike for contextual ads like AdSense which do not suffer from this problem). Read More
September 3, 2006
August 2006: Top Earners
The Blog Herald has posted about its Top Earners for August so I thought I would do the same. Here’s where I see the money coming in-
1. Google AdSense is currently my biggest chunk of income.
2. Chitika comes in at a close second largely because my sites are product related.
August 19, 2006
The Center for Marketing Small Business
Chitika For Website Marketing
“So, what’s the big deal?” You may ask. Well that’s pretty simple actually, Chitika has invented a revolutionary ad-type called eMiniMaills. These eMiniMalls are banner sized shopping cart displaying items that you choose by keywords, and you get paid for every click on the ads. Read More
August 14, 2006
Chitika Help, News & Tips
Chitika eMiniMalls Adds New Categories & Multi-Product Unit Sizes
Your ShopLinc will feature content from your website, blog posts or articles. So its not just another shop, its your shop with your content, not ours. Maintained by Chitika , “remote” controlled by you! Chitika | ShopLincs will be offered to select publishers. At this time, ShopLincs are being offered on an invitation basis only. You will be able to apply for your own ShopLinc soon. Read More: http://chitikahelp.blogspot.com/2006/08/chitikashoplinc.html
August 12, 2006
ProBlogger
Chitika Shoplinc Review
Chitika have just gone public with a new feature - Shoplincs - a CPC (cost per click) branded shop that you can host on your own domain and attatch to your blog/site. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of a small (very small from what I can tell) beta test of ShopLinc and now that it’s public can tell you a little about it. Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/08/12/chitika-shoplinc-review/
August 8, 2006
Publishers Review
Chitika eMiniMalls Adds New Categories and Multi-Product Unit Sizes
Chitika eMiniMall is rolling out some neat features this month. The first feature is the expansion of the categories to include 18 new popular categories, which include 8 video games sectors … Chitika has also added 4 new eMiniMalls mult-product unit sizes. Read More: http://pubrevenue.com/chitika-eminimalls-adds-new-categories-and-multi-product-unit-sizes
July 17, 2006
Irwan’s
Chitika Eminimalls
Chitika eMiniMalls, a newcomer in advertising industry came with a new fresh concept of advertising. Instead of static text ads, Chitika Eminimalls brings contextual visual ads presented in a new mall-like window, as the name Chitika Eminimalls Read More: http://www.irwan.biz/chitika-eminimalls/
June 15, 2006
The Age
Why bloggers blog
Mr Rowse, now one of the owners of a network of 125 blog sites known as b5media, has made as much as $15,000 a month from his blogs through “click through” advertising provided by Google and Chitika. Read More: http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/why-bloggers-blog/2006/06/14/1149964544899.html?page=3
May 26, 2006
SELaplana
Chitika eMiniMalls for Wordpress
I want to announce the availability of the Chitika eMiniMalls for Wordpress plugins which can be downloaded directly from the Chitika site.
Read More: http://www.selaplana.com/2006/05/27/chitika-eminimalls-for-wordpress/
May 15, 2006
Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense
Chitika now has over 10,000 publishers
The folks at Chitika have started a newsletter for their publishers. The most significant announcement in the newsletter is that Chitika has passed the 10,000 publisher mark. Read More: http://www.memwg.com/blog/adsense/Chitika-now-has-over-10-000-publishers.html
May 7, 2006
Shopier
Chitika Shoplinc
I just came across this site from Chitika called Shoplinc. I must say that Chitika is really innovating in online advertising once more. The eminimalls program in my opinion was just brilliant despite all the problems and publishers complaints. Read More: http://www.shopier.com/?p=5
March 28, 2006
Business Blog of Mindaugas Lipskas
Chitika and Google AdSense
I started playing around with Chitika advertising network some time ago and found it to be more flexible in some ways. For example, Chitika allows you to control almost everything about advertisements displayed on website. Let’s say you have website about Apple iPod. While Google will try to to the best displaying relevant ads, you will see non relevant advertisements sometime. Read More: http://www.lipskas.com/2006/03/chitika-and-google-adsense/
January 26, 2006
Boosting Profits
Chitika Means Cash for Publishers
There are hundreds of thousands of websites on the Internet that are missing out on big money. With the emergence of the new Chitika eMiniMalls advertising company, these websites could be bringing in hundreds of dollars a day, and they don’t even know it. Read More: http://8008135.org/2006/01/26/chitika-means-cash-for-publishers/
December 13, 2005
ProBlogger
Chitika Introduces Daily Filtering, Faster Updates and Includes more European Countries
Chitika should be happy about some of the changes announced over at the Chitika Blog today. There are two main changes:
1. Daily filtering of clicks from countries currently not supported in the eMiniMalls program: Instead of waiting till the end of the month for the audit process to filter out non-revenue earning clicks from unsupported countries, we are now filtering out those clicks from the daily reports…
Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/12/13/chitika-introduces-daily-filtering-faster-updates-and-includes-more-european-countries/
December 1, 2005
ProBlogger
Chitika adds ‘Alternate URL’ feature
Chitika just added an ‘alternate URL’ feature to their eMiniMalls which allow you to run other ads in their space when they don’t have any product to serve. This will be very useful for any publishers with a lot of traffic from countries not accepted by the program. Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/12/01/chitika-ads-alternate-url-feature/
December 1, 2005
Google Lady
How does eMiniMalls compare with Google Adsense?
Comparing the two contextual advertising programs
Chitika:
Age: A few months old
Adsense:
Age: About 3 years old
Chitika:
Size: Small but growing fast
Adsense:
Size: Market leader though there are some rumours that it has been losing publishers to YPN and Chitika. Read More: http://www.googlelady.com/200/how-does-eminimalls-compare-with-google-adsense/
December 1, 2005
WebForce Blog
Chitika launches contextual ads for blogs
Chitika has launched a contextual ad service for blogs.
Chitika approached me as the developer of bBlog, to see if I would be interested in incorporating their service into my software : When this gets incorporated into bblog, clicks on the ad generate revenue. You get a cut and your users (who sign up with our service) get a cut. Sounds nice for me :)
Read More: http://www.webforce.co.nz/blog/item/Chitika.html
November 28, 2005
JenSense
Chitika launches eMiniMalls UK
Chitika has now launched a UK specific version of eMiniMalls.
eMiniMalls UK is now live!
Geo-targeting is on, so visitors from UK can now expect to see merchandising offers from UK merchants, while visitors from US will continue to see US offers and promotions. Read More: http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/11/chitika_launche.html
November 16, 2005
StevePavlina.com
Chitika Optimization Tip - Turn Keywords Into Channels
If you use Chitika with Google Adsense, then you have to use Chitika in non-context sensitive mode (the default) in order to comply with the Adsense terms of service. So this means you have to pick your own keywords, which can be tricky…especially if you run a site that isn’t product-oriented like I do and where the best-performing keywords aren’t obvious at all. Read More: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/11/chitika-optimization-tip-turn-keywords-into-channels/
November 10, 2005
ProBlogger
Chitika adds eSupport Area
Chitika has quietly been developing an eSupport area where they have latest Chitika news, Downloads (currently just a couple of plugins for MT and WP) and a knowledgebase area with a collection of tips on a variety of Chitika and eMiniMall topics. They also have opportunity to submit a ticket if you can’t find the answer to your question in the knowledgebase. Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/11/10/chitika-adds-esupport-area/
November 1, 2005
ProBlogger
Chitika eMiniMalls Release Affiliate Banners
Good news for those of you who are a part of the Chitika eMiniMalls affiliate program with Chitika today providing 10 banner ads to help you promote their program. They come in a range of sizes from the small through to larger ones. Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/11/01/chitika-eminimalls-release-affiliate-banners/
October 23, 2005
The Teleporting Tattler
Google’s first real competition : An alternative to Adsense Revenues
But these big guns were beaten to the starting gate by a relatively small company called Chitika. Chitika has sprung out of nowhere to provide an innovative new format for contextual advertising. Read More: http://www.teleportingtattler.com/2005/10/googles-first-real-competition.html
October 19, 2005
Affiliate Blog by Shawn Collins
Chitika eMiniMalls - the Evolution Revolution in Contextual Ads?
Chitika eMiniMalls select the best product and provide site visitors users with robust comparative shopping information to make an informed buying decision before they leave your site. As users click, the Chitika affiliate makes money. Read More: http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/chitika_eminimalls_the_evolution_revolution_in_contextual_ads.html
October 18, 2005
h2>JenSense
Chitika eMiniMalls search tab is compatible with AdSense
If you have disabled your eMiniMalls search tab in order to comply with AdSense terms and policies, you can re-enable it. Because it is not a web search tool, but only a product search tool within eMiniMalls, publishers are permitted to run AdSense on the same page as eMiniMalls with the search tab.
Read More: http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/10/chitika_eminima.html#trackbacks
October 18, 2005
GeekZone
Running Chitika
If you are a frequent visitor to Geekzone then you probably have noticed a new style of ads we are running as defaults for our Tribal Fusion network ads. These are from Chitika and work really well for some sites.
The format we are using here is the eMiniMalls (they also have BlogContext and RealContext formats), and they can target the pages’ contents, pretty much like Google AdSense. To prevent conflict with the Google AdSense TOS, we are actually not using the contextual side of this ads, and also disabling the search tab. Read More: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5355
October 14, 2005
ProBlogger
Chitika eMiniMalls Tips
Product related sites are not the only ones reporting good returns from eMiniMalls though - I know of a variety of personal and general topic blogs and sites that are reporting better than normal earnings with eMiniMalls in comparison to other ad networks that they use. Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/14/chitika-eminimall-tips/
October 7, 2005
ReveNews
Chitika - Keeping Us Busy… And Wealthy
I’ve also got my eye on Chitika … and so should you. They’ve got some of the smartest looking ads I’ve seen. You get a picture of the product, a list of places and prices to buy, and (here’s the best bit)… tabs that give more information about the product when the user mouses over. Without leaving the page, the user can get a summary of the product, user reviews and a search box to look for similar products. Read More: http://www.revenews.com/joelcomm/2005/10/chitika_keeping_us_busy_and_we.html
October 5, 2005
ProBlogger
Chitika eMiniMalls - How Much Money Do they Earn Me?
There has been a lot of positive feedback so far from those who I’ve referred over to the program with some people earning some significant money from it so far … The reason I want to talk about this is simply because I really believe in this ad system - as you’ll see from the figures below - it’s had a pretty amazing impact upon my earnings and I’d like readers here to have the full picture of what the potential to earn money with it is … I personally have reason to be pretty excited about eMiniMalls. If these numbers continue they will more than double my daily earnings and taken them to a level that is over $1000 per day. Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/05/chitika-eminimalls-how-much-do-they-earn-me/
October 5, 2005
Blog Blog
Chitika eMini-Malls
Normally I stick to my technology category, but I’ve been playing with Chitika eMiniMalls quite a bit lately. These little babies are the hottest thing in contextual (and non-contextual depending how you set them) advertising and are popping up on blogs all around the world. Read More: http://blog-blog.org/?p=80
September 30, 2005
ProBlogger
Blogging Stories - How Blogs Change Lives
“I put these (the mini-malls) on my blog after reading this review a day ago and today I’ve earned just under $150 from them in a day! I know this will probably go down a little when my readers get used to them but it’s amazing!!!
I cannot express to you what this means to me. if the $150 per day continues I will be able to go off welfare payments at last and should be able to put my two little kids into some non 2nd hand clothes for the first time in their lives.” Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/09/30/blogging-stories-how-blogs-change-lives/
September 28, 2005
ProBlogger
Chitika eMiniMalls Review
Over the past few weeks I’ve been a part of a beta testing program of a new ad format for Chitika’s eMiniMalls.
They are a new type of ad that many of you will find quite beneficial for your blogs - I know I have. You’ve probably seen them around. They come in a range of sizes but usually have a picture of a product and then some tabs running across the top that say ‘Description’, ‘Best Deals’, ‘Reviews’ and ‘Search’. As you put the cursor over the top of these tabs they change what the ad shows. Read More: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/09/28/chitika-mini-malls-review/
September 23, 2005
Blog Marketing
Information Overload
Chitika’s unique contextual ad targeting service searches multiple ad networks to find the best content-targeted revenue earning ads for websites in real time. The service is free to use. No hosting charges. No set up fees. Read More: http://rwebsdesigns.com/blog/?p=134
August 26, 2005
Netlogged
Make money online with Chitika
Chitika - The Leader in Impulse Merchandising
Chitika is the industry’s leading impulse merchandising company. Chitika was founded in May 2003 and is based in Massachusetts. Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) helps web publishers generate revenue using innovative publisher-side advertising and merchandising solutions and services.
Read More: http://affiliate.netlogged.com/2005/08/chitika/
July 11, 2005
Comparison Engines
Chitika in NYTimes - Contextual Product Merchandising
Chitika (maker of eMiniMalls) got a nice PR hit (registration required) in the NYTimes today.
The CTR for banner ads is abysmal and eMiniMalls is one way to address this. When I talked with Venkat Kolluri (CEO of Chitika) last month, he said “We offer a service to publishers where they can get the best listings from multiple ad networks. eMiniMals [sic] is all about contextual product merchandising.”
Read More: http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=68
June 20, 2005
Qumana Blog
New ads from Chitika move online ads to a new paradigm
As you have seen of late I have had - as most Qumana folks - Chitika ads in my posts. These have been very successful for me. It’s always fun, though, to get tipped off to something new. Chitika let Qumana know late last week about their new eMiniMall ad format. I have to say that this has got to be one of the most innovative ad formats I’ve seen in my ten years of eMarketing. Read More: http://blog.qumana.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/20/957113.html
