Comments on: Chitika launches Multi-Product Unit

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:09:13 +0000

havn’t seen the problem myself. If you have questions I’d direct them to Chitika.

By: EngLee

EngLee — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:16:03 +0000

Guys, I see a bug with this Chitika's new Multi-Product unit. Anybody saw the same thing? Darren, what would you say about this?

By: pcunix

pcunix — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:30:30 +0000

I’ll give ‘em a few pages to try this on, but frankly I’m not expecting much. Chitika performed horribly on my site – I like the ads, they should fit well with my pages, I really like this multi-unit ad, but they brought in a fraction of what Adsense does for the same exposure.

But who knows? Maybe these will turn the tide.

By: Ma2T

Ma2T — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:17:13 +0000

Chitika is doing well for me on my tech related blogs, not as well as adsense, but then again they are not in the primary positions either.
Definitely a worthy adition to adsense though.
I look forward to testing these and to see how relevant etc the other products are.

Is Chitika down for anyone else? it’s been down for me all day long, both IE and firefox. Ads are still showing though :)

By: Omar

Omar — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:29:04 +0000

Well im going to try them and and see how they do.

By: Marek

Marek — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:36:26 +0000

I had problems with that new “multi” ad yesterday (no product display), but it seems it starts working OK today.

Chitika is working well for product oriented blogs. It is doing fine on my paddling and photography blog where I can talk a lot about cameras and photo equipments. Cpc is not so great any more. In addition to some decent Cpc I am also getting for the same product a bunch of “two pennies” payments.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:34:34 +0000

I’ve still got the C account and am considering where best to place them. The truth is that they are still very limited compared to AdSense – not only are they purely product based (whereas AdSense will display ads for services, information, etc. as well, even though these might not always pay as highly) but their range of products is limited, so even using the contextual feature doesn’t always bring up relevant ads (if I see that iPod one more time… :)

I reckon it will work better on one of my new projects launching in the next couple of months.

As to the new ad unit, it looks quite good but it’s quite prominent and might be too dominant on the page – it’s heading for some of the large Amazon banners which I never understood why or where anyone would use.

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:39:00 +0000

I’m still considering … your points are quite useful… THX

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:57:21 +0000

Interesting…Kinda makes me want to give Chitika another chance on my sites.

By: Squirrelinabox

Squirrelinabox — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:05:50 +0000

Definitely like this new feature, though I agree it needs to be available in some other sizes before I can start using it.

By: Joseph Williams

Joseph Williams — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:17:52 +0000

Chitika has also not shown the best returns for me, but I’m willing to try it again and see if it does better with these features.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:58:38 +0000

OK, I strategically placed them at my blog’s frontpage, but still it doesnt look good due to its bulky size.

Chitika needs to launch different size of Multi Ads Unit

By: Thilak

Thilak — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:12:56 +0000

Thats Good, I thought of Dropping Chitika, But I’ll continue with it.

Thanks Darren