Written on November 23rd, 2006 at 11:11 am by Darren Rowse

Put Chikita as your AdSense alternate URL

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This reader ‘quick tip’ was submitted by Antoine Khater from All Day I Dream About Photography

Wouldn’t be nice to have you Chikita emini-mall or ShopCloud$ (aff) showing up as the Alternate URL of Adsense?

Here is a trick I recently learned on how to do it.

Just set up a BLANK page, completely blank no header no […]

Written on November 20th, 2006 at 02:11 am by Darren Rowse

How to Optimize a Shoplinc Store

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In my last post I wrote a series of tips on how to use Chitika’s eMiniMalls and RPU ads. Today I want to turn my attention to their Shoplinc product (aff).

I’ve had reasonable (and increasing) success with Shoplinc since it launched a few months back. Once you have people in the Shop it converts very […]

Written on November 19th, 2006 at 02:11 am by Darren Rowse

More Chitika Ad Optimizing Tips

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This post is a continuation of my previous post on optimizing Chitika Ads in which I spoke largely about ad targetting.

Positioning Ads
Good positioning of Chitika ads is similar to that of AdSense in that in general they work well above the fold (with some exceptions - see below) and in areas of your blog where […]

Written on November 18th, 2006 at 02:11 am by Darren Rowse

How to Improve Your Chitika Ads Performance

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As I look towards the end of the year earnings across my blogs I’m particularly excited about the potential for my Chitika Ads. They continue to be my equal highest earner (with AdSense) and this will only increase over the coming weeks.

Chitika (aff) have been providing publishers with advertising options for over a year […]

Written on November 8th, 2006 at 03:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Chitika Add New Sizes to ShopClouds

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Chitika have added new sizes to their ShopCloud$ ad unit (read my intro to them here).They now not only come in a 468×180 size ad but also:

• 300×250
• 250×250
• 160×600
• 160×160
• 120×600
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Written on October 18th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

How to Make Money from Internal Search Traffic with Chitika

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When people can’t find what they are looking for on your blog one of the things that they’ll often do is head for your search tool and see if they can find what they are looking for on your blog that way.

On my blogs hundreds of people use my search tools every day. I know […]

Written on October 17th, 2006 at 05:10 am by Darren Rowse

Chitika offer Related Products Unit

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Chitika have been rolling out some interesting offerings to publishers lately. Their eMinimalls are over a year old now, they’ve exctended them to Multi Product Unit minimalls and more recently announced Shoplinc shops and their Forums.

Another product that they’ve been testing lately with a small group of testers is ‘Related Product Units’ (RPUs).

I’ve been one […]

Written on October 14th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

Chitika Launches Official Forum - Sphere

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Chitika have today Launched a forum for its publishers called Sphere. I’ve been using it for the last few days and its been a good way to chat with Chitika developers and other publishers. It is another forum to have to keep an eye on (I don’t really need yet another one) and I do […]

Written on October 6th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

Chitika extends referral program to 15 months

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Here’s some good news for Chitika publishers who have referred other publishers to the system - they’ve extended the referral program to 15 months instead of 12!

This means that those who started referring people from the first month that it was possible to do so (around 12 months ago) now will continue to earn […]