Comments on: Customizable background colors for Chitika eMiniMalls

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:31:20 +0000

Perhaps you should blend the background here (in the left sidebar) to see if it makes a difference.

By: vivek

vivek — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:54:05 +0000

Yup very nice :) Thanks.

By: Dale Estes

Dale Estes — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:53:41 +0000

Yes thanks I have been getting some results slow but increasing.Thanks

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:43:56 +0000

I was hoping they would come out with a option to change the background. Thanks Darren for the update!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:18:58 +0000

Excellent. Thanks.

By: Kashif

Kashif — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:50:30 +0000

I have setup eMiniMalls on my sites and I must say that Chitika is performing excellent so far. My only concern is that they do not accept clicks from india and as most of my visitors are from there, I may loose good part of the revenue.

I hope that they would device a reliable click fraud detection mechanism in future rather than removing clicks across the board from certain parts of the world.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:25:06 +0000

Give it a go for a day or two Jon. The worst that can happen is that you loose a few clicks which in the scheme of things might not be much money (unless you’ve found the allusive keyword that pays $100 or something :-) )

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:46:34 +0000

Ahh…finally! I shall go implement it on a black site of mine right away. Thanks Darren!

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:00:01 +0000

Thanks for the headsup, Darren.

This is a double-edge sword for me though. With something like 300-ish unique readers a day netting me a couple of clicks on my Chitika eMiniMalls, I’m not sure if I want to change the background. In my novice way, I consider that amount of clicks to be pretty good for a relatively un-targetted personal blog and I can’t help but thinkg that the stark white background was contributing to that.

You see, unlike boring old text ads, I find the Chitika malls to be quite visually appealing. From the initial zoom in of the product up to the interactive tabs, I can’t help but think that the garish white on my otherwise subtle grey-blue background is actually an asset in drawing people’s eyes to them.

I guess the answer is to experiment with the colours and see what happens. Do I dare risk my

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:57:33 +0000

Thanks! Sure does look alot better on the colored backgrounds of my sites than the white did before. It helps them blend in a bit more.

By: Kim Dushinski

Kim Dushinski — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:19:27 +0000

Thanks Darren! I had just been to Chitika and didn’t see that for myself. Thanks to you I’ve already got my background changed. My next move is to re-read your post about how to work these mini-malls even better.