I’ve just received an email newsletter from Chitika introducing this fantastic new feature. Now publishers can present their visitors with Chitika ads that feature 4 products at once! I think this is a great new feature.

The “look” of the new ad units is great, very catchy and pleasing to the eye. What’s more, they look very “clickable” and should definately help improve the CTR and eCPM of Chitika ads on your website. This is a major step forward for Chitika and I certainly hope it improves the profitability of Chitika eMiniMalls (I know my earnings need a boost!)

here are a few points directly from the newsletter:

• Feature & promote 4 products at once!
• Give your visitors a true interactive window shopping experience
• More products mean more revenue for you!

People have been using this to estimate keywords to use for Adsense for quite some time. This applies to Chitika as well. While I recommend you do a bit of the hard searching yourself, this will give you a good idea of where to begin.

Sometimes the highest paying keywords aren’t the most expensive products either. And sometimes general keywords (Like camera) pay tonnes!

Also check out: How Do I Ge Really Good Keywords?

You can also set it to add a extra information to the channel as well. This will produce 1 channel for each keyword and allow you to add location too.

ch_sid = ch_query + 'bottom' + 'index';


It’s quite simple, if for example the keyword was iPod, it would generate as a channel: iPodbottomindex

You can set it by building the Chitika eMiniMalls through the Chitika website.

If you’ve already produced your code you can easily add it in.

For existing users who have already deployed code, you can add this line to the code (anywhere after the line with ch_client but before the line with /script). You need to replace the XXXX below with a valid URL like “http://yourdomain.com/chitika.html”.

ch_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.yourdomain.com/altad.xxx";

My suggestion is to use PHPAdsNew and generate a .php file with your alternate ad, place that .php file on your server and point Chitika’s Alternative URL to that file.

Excessive clicks from the same IP in a short period of time and your own clicks are discounted through auditing, but poorly converting sites are not penalized.

Chitika has even gone a further step and disabled their contextual mode by default.

You can display both, only if Chitika eMiniMalls is in non-contextual mode. If you have Chitika eMiniMalls in contextual mode, then you can’t. Google Adsense does not allow other ad networks that are contextual to be displayed on the same page as them.

You do not have to disable the search tab when using Chitika eMiniMalls and Google Adsense together.

Chitika does suggest 3-4 to retain a high CTR, but that’s dependant on your page.

Even clicking your own ads by mistake is automatically resolved.

This is the large (Besides the visual and functional) difference between Chitika and Google Adsense. Adsense is an ongoing audit, potentially, each click you receive is audited. Whereas with Chitika auditing occurs at the end of the month.

Multiple clicks from the same IP are removed.

Clicks from your IP removed.

No one gets banned.

Generate your code


<script type="text/javascript"><!--
ch_client = “Your Login”;
ch_width = 728;
ch_height = 90;
ch_non_contextual = 1;
var ch_queries = new Array( “digital cameras”, “stereo”, “sony playstation”, “dell laptop” );
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];
//–></script>
<script  src=”http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/mm.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>


Place this under the bolded code

ch_sid = ch_query;



var ch_queries = new Array( "digital cameras", "stereo", "sony playstation", "dell laptop" );
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];
ch_sid = ch_query;



So it looks like that.

What this does is when it randomly selects a keyword it assigns it a variable, let’s call it X. Then it also states that the channel ID should be called X as well. The result? 1 Channel per 1 Keyword. The ultimate tracking tool!

Also check out Advanced Chitika Channel Tracking!