Chitika Online Advertising Network | Where Data Drives Performance

What happened to the product links?

16 November 2005

To help minimize so-called "curiosity clicks" that typically do not lead to conversions on the merchants' side, we updated the eMiniMalls units to drive qualified clicks. Hence, eMiniMalls users will notice a dip in the overall click through rate (and hence the overall revenue). While we do strongly believe that in the long run everyone will benefit from our efforts to optimize this eMiniMalls (beta) service, we do recognize that in the short term this might lead to potential drops in revenue for some of our publishers.

Channel Tracking released

9 November 2005

eMiniMalls channels

eMiniMalls Referral Banners are now ready!

1 November 2005

We just released over 10 different banners that our affiliates can use to promote eMiniMalls and refer publishers. Check out the sample 180x150 banner: Get Chitika eMiniMalls

The following banner units are also available:

180x160

120x90

120x60

Referral Program - Make More Money!

26 October 2005

You can now make more money by referring your friends to eMiniMalls. By putting your customized referral link on your site, you can earn 10% of the revenue that your referrals make. They still make the same amount that they would if they signed up directly and we reward you for sending us the business. Login to your account and click on the 'Referral Program' icon to get your customized code and more information. If you're not yet a customer, read this overview.

Maximum # of eMiniMalls on a Page?

26 October 2005

There is no limit to the number of eMiniMalls that you can have on one page. However, we do not recommend any more than 3 due to 'banner blindness.'

Sample Keywords

26 October 2005

Need help coming up with keywords for targeting? We have created a sample list of categories and keywords to help give you ideas. Please keep in mind that this is only a sample list and does not cover every product. Feel free to be creative! To test to see what products will be shown for the keywords you select, go to the Chitika homepage and enter the keywords into the Search box on the Search Tab of the eMiniMalls. By using the Chitika homepage, you won't be inflating your own impression numbers.

Supported Traffic

26 October 2005

We currently accept traffic from the US, Canada, Western Europe and Australia. As we add more products for other countries we will expand our coverage. Updated list: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK, US

Customizable background colors for eMiniMalls

21 October 2005

The background color can now be changed. The option for that is now in the control. But if existing users want to hack the code, they can do use using a line like this:

ch_color_bg = "#CCCCCC";

Using blog titles as keywords to target eMiniMalls

19 October 2005

Bloggers using WP and MT can customize the eMiniMalls code and pass the title of the blog post as a keyword. On MT insert the following code:

ch_query = "<$MTEntryTitle$>";

On WP insert the following code:

ch_query = "<?php the_title(); ?>";

Using Custom Fields in WordPress to set your eMiniMalls queries

12 October 2005

Jacken describes in detail how you can use WordPress' Custom Fields to easily set your own quieries:

But wouldn’t it be great if you could use the Custom Fields that’s already in WordPress? Well you can. And here’s how I did it. When writing your blog posting, just add a tag called “ad” in the Custom fields, and then put the search word you want, for example “ipod”. I’ve put the code so that WordPress uses the the codes when displaying a single post.