Chitika MiniMalls
Chitika Mini Malls are the HOTTEST advertising program to hit the net since Google’s AdWords and AdSense. The following is direct from Chitika’s FAQ:
In addition to the revenue opportunities generated from its comprehensive merchandising engine, eMiniMalls offers a more informative window shopping experience in which users can browse and learn about products that are dynamically targeted to the content of the site and their interests in particular-all without having to leave the site.
- Targeted product merchandising: Brings products related to site content to the visitor
- Product promotion: Promotes targeted products, not merchants, to the visitor
- Product reviews: Feeds into the consumer demand for more informed buying decisions
- Intelligent product recommendations: Extremely targeted based on related site content
- A comparative shopping experience: Visitors click when they know the Price is Right.
- Content and behavior-based feedback loop: Intelligently learns what products are working best for a particular website.
Chitika puts these small, interactive ad-blocks on your site, wherever you choose. You can customize the look, feel and shape of them so they integrate with your site. You can also choose a keyword or group of words to define the products that are shown. You can also run it so it displays ads contextually. The box below shows keywords of “PDA” and “laptop” only. As long as there are products/ads available, that’s all that will show. If the ads run out, it falls back to it’s default of everything.
Google AdSense Warning: If you are running AdSense on the same page as Chitika ads, your Chitika ad can NOT run contextually as this violates your TOS with AdSense. Some people are reporting that you must also disable the SEARCH tab if you are using Google AdSense for Search.
Commission Junction – What NOT to do
I wrote last (2 months ago) about Commission Junction and how some people had problems with them, but I was good. WRONG.
The other day I woke up to find myself locked out of my CJ account. Apparently they have a “seldom used” clause in their TOS (Terms of Service) that says if you don’t make a SALE in 6 months, they deactivate your account and there’s no way to restore it. That’s what happened. I’ve been spending a long time building sites and developing traffic on some of them, and had just gotten things setup for at least 2 sites and WHAM – CJ pulled the rug.
I use a central ad manager software, so I could turn off all of these ads, but that left me with next to nothing for ads (not that anyone was buying) so I went in search of options and found a couple.
I can re-apply to CJ and get another 6 months. But that also means re-applying to all the advertisers and re-downloading the banners and other content with my new codes. Is it worth it? Not right now. Next time, I’ll tell you what I’m doing instead.
