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Written on May 15th, 2008 at 06:05 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Interactive Premium Listing Units
One of my biggest blog money makers is Chitika. I’ve reviewed and written about them many times. They’ve always done very well for me on product related sites - however on sites that don’t have a product focus they have never performed.
I’ve been nagging the Chitika team to get them to produce ads for non […]
Written on May 2nd, 2008 at 04:05 pm by Darren Rowse
Chitika’s Response to CPM Ads Concerns
Ryan Travis from Chitika was kind enough to respond to some of the concerns mentioned in my previous post (and it’s comments) about their CPM ads:
“We have seen that there are a LOT of times and situations where a publisher’s ads simply will not get clicked on. In these situations, it makes the most […]
Written on May 1st, 2008 at 05:05 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Roll Out CPM Filler Ads for Unsupported Countries
Chitika have been rolling out their new CPM ads over the last few days. These impression based ads will appear mainly on sites with a lot of traffic from non supported countries (they only serve their own ads to traffic from USA, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, UK).
In […]
Written on April 16th, 2008 at 10:04 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Add Interactive Premium Listing Ads Into the Mix
Here’s a piece of news that slipped through without me noticing while I was traveling last month - Chitika have announce a program to serve ‘graphic ads’ in your Chitika ad units when they feel that a CPM would earn you more than a CPC ad.
The announced it back in March here and here:
“This […]
Written on November 7th, 2007 at 09:11 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Updates it’s LINX Ad Unit
Chitika have today announced changes to their Chitika LINX ad unit. Now instead of it just being a text based ad unit they’ve added an image and styling (it’s much better than the old one).
I’m not sure that I’ve really featured this ad unit here before on ProBlogger - so let me give you an […]
Written on October 6th, 2007 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Launch Premium Publishers Program
Chitika have launched a premium publisher program in the last week.
Chitika publishers will now fit one of three categories - Silver - Gold and Premium.
Each level has it’s own privileges - from what I can tell most publishers are Gold publishers (I’m not sure why there’s a Silver category) with premium publishers qualifying by fitting […]
Written on September 20th, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
How Not Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water Earned me Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Today I want to tell you a story - a story of how not throwing the baby out with the bath water has earned me hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Just under two years ago a controversy erupted in the the ‘make money online’ segment of the blogosphere that involved a lot of hype, anger and […]
Written on May 25th, 2007 at 11:05 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Linx - Beta In Text Advertising
Chitika have today added another new ad unit to their growing line of options for publishers - this one is called Chitika Linx.
It’s still in beta and I’m not one of the lucky few to be invited to test it - but from the overview page it looks very similar to other in text advertising […]
Written on December 31st, 2006 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Send Top Publishers iPods
Google sent their top earners digital picture frames, YPN sent sweatshirts and in the last few days Chitika publishers have started getting their gifts - ipod shuffles.
Very cool idea and something practical that I’m sure will get a lot of use.
I’m not sure what the cutoff point was for who got one and one didn’t […]

