Chitika eMiniMalls Review

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];