Comments on: Chitika eMiniMalls Review

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:16:19 +0000

Jon, it’s likely the 60% share will stay. It’s not particularly high – Google pays a slightly higher percentage – but Chitiks 60% is 60% of a higher amount (than what the Adwords advertiser is likely paying for that same keyword).

There is no reason to believe that the 60% will drop. In fact, it’s highly unlikely. The market is hotting up; there’s YPN, MSN’s AdCenter etc and the competition will ensure the percentage stays high.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:02:02 +0000

Ian,

I am not able to get the code to display in this comments section. Please check out this post on the Chitika Blog:

http://chitika.com/blog/index.php?p=12

Thanks

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:09:52 +0000

Ian,

Here’s the full script (for the 300×250 unit) that you can use to assign your own keywords:

Please replace “userid” with your own userid.

Also please double keywords before you use the code. You can test the selected keywords using the the search tab on the unit on http://chitika.com/

For more details on how to select keywords please check out: http://chitika.com/blog/index.php?p=9

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:44:45 +0000

Help please.

Can anyone give me the total script they are using.
I have the script from Chitika and the bits to add, can someone please just show me what a whole script looks like when assigning keywords

Thank you

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:11:06 +0000

I am taking a big chance here everyone and jumping on the Chitika bandwagon. And in a big way.

After coming out of the highest Adsense earning month for one of my websites I have decided to give Chitika a try for one month. Over the weekend I removed all Google adsense from my site UsedMac.ca and replaced the ads with Chitika ads only.

Let’s see if the gamble pays off.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:53:45 +0000

Not too good here. But, that may have to do with my placement. I am planning to re-evaluate my ads in the near future, as soon as I get time.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:40:35 +0000

I’ve put a minimall onto my blog. It is actually making more money than all of my AdSense ads and is achieving about the same CTR. But then, you know… when you only have 30 visitors a day…. 1 click is one click. LOL

By: x74.org

x74.org — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:00:16 +0000

If you're interested, I developed a plugin that lets you put an eMiniMall right into your post, using WordPress's Quicktags Toolbar. I've seen direct integration into the post improves CTR. Visit this link for more information on the eMiniMall Plugin for WordPress.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:27:16 +0000

Is there any indication that the Chitika will keep these better ratios in the long term, or is this just a jippo to get people involved while they are beta testing?

By: Rob Barac

Rob Barac — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:35:52 +0000

Jeremy,

I would have to echo those sentiments. While my subscriber/reader list is significantly lower than yours, I have had similar results with the Chitika/AdSense ratio.

I would like to point out that by it’s very nature, Chitika works better with product or topic specific sites. I get significantly more clicks on cafegeek.com (1 blog) than I do on intersplice.com.au (2 blogs). Conversely AdSense does better on generalised personal style blogs.

The value of the click throughs is substantially better with Chitika. Almost 3 times better.

One point to make is that you MUST add a line of code into your Chitika ads if you are to run them on the same page with AdSense to not violate your terms with Google. This code basically allows you to assign categories or keywords to your Chitika ads and makes them non-contextual.

ch_queries = new Array(’Gaggia’, ‘Saeco’, ‘Solis’, ‘Krups’, ‘Coffee’);

Or you can rotate among several keywords by adding the following code to your Chitika code.

var ch_queries = new Array(’keyword1′, ‘keyword2′, ‘keyword3′, ‘keyword4′, ‘keyword5′);
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];