Comments on: Chitika eMiniMalls add Category Hints

By: andy

andy — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:28:19 +0000

Just an update to my comment above re: standards:

The actual code used to implement the eMiniMalls, is compliant. just FYI.

By: Chitika-News.de » Neu: Category Hints - Produktgruppen voreinstellen

Chitika-News.de » Neu: Category Hints - Produktgruppen voreinstellen — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:15:50 +0000

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By: LHT

LHT — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:03:49 +0000

Nice idea, but I’m still getting their stupid pink iPod when there aren’t ads for my keywords :P Apparently the iPod is a home and garden item.

By: Jennifer Grucza

Jennifer Grucza — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:03:31 +0000

Too bad they don’t have more categories. It looks like the IDs they’re using map directly to the Shopping.com IDs (which you can find by poking around Shopping.com’s HTML source). I thought I’d try with a different category than Chitika gave, thinking it would probably work, but it doesn’t appear to. Too bad.

By: BaseBlogging » Adsense and Chitika news

BaseBlogging » Adsense and Chitika news — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:58:24 +0000

[...] Via Problogger, Chitika has implemented a feature to try and miprove ad relevancy called Category Hints. Essentially, if Chitika doesn’t have a product for your keyword, you can specify a category for Chitika to pull from. I could see this being a great tool because many of my keywords tend to be hit & miss in returning results. However, for sports bloggers there is a Sports and Outdoors category, but the sample ad is for a tire. I’m not sure it will improve relevancy for us until they ad more categories. I haven’t seen Chitika on too many sports blogs, and I’m largely giving up on them. I still have them in a few spots (including here), but I get better clickthough rates and cost per click with Adsense. Have any sports bloggers had success with Chitika? Tags: Adsense, Chitika [...]

By: mark

mark — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:01:50 +0000

That’s a nice feature Chitika implemented. Ad space needs to still have to earn money somehow.

By: andy

andy — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:30:47 +0000

Hmmm… this is interesting. I had never seen Chitika before.

My only beef is the (not even close) non-standards code. A few of their formats seem to display badly in Safari, as well.

I’m gonna have to look into this a bit more. I like the idea a lot… just not the implementation.

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:14:00 +0000

Sure it does, because it's non-contextual. You are selecting the category -- think of it as a list of keywords -- and there's no automatic analysis of the page content to find those keywords. As I just said in my blog, the most interesting aspect of this for me is seeing the exact set of categories that Chitika supports. I assume the page will be updated as Chitika ads more product types.

By: David Hardin

David Hardin — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:02:24 +0000

My big question is: Does this comply with Adsense TOS?