Chitika eMiniMalls & Google Adsense on Same Webpage : Make More Money
September 30th, 2005How to make extra money from your website? Use Chitika. Can you put Chitika’s eMiniMalls ads on the same page with Google Adsense? Yes. But you have to use non contextual Chitika ads (Just as is the case with using non contextual Adbrite ads with Adsense). Chitika ads are a new way to make money from your website. Sign Up Now
Chitika launched a new contextual advertising program to make money on the web. Chitika’s eMiniMalls promotes products by automatically targeting them to the content of your webpage, and selects the best product to provides your users with comparative shopping information to make an informed buying decision and as users click, you make money easily. Chitika mini-mall ads can be used in conjunction with Adsense IF they are set to be non contextual
So how do you make your Chitika code non contextual?
Set your own keywords and products instead of contextually targeting products.
Yes. By default, the products are contextually targeted to your content. If you’d like to set your own query or product, we can do so by specifying it in ch_query javascript param. For example, to target the “canon powershot” camera you would add this line to the javascript code:
ch_query = “canon powershot”;
I further emailed Chitika to make sure that I did not violate the Adsense Terms of Service, and this is the code they suggested by email
You can do this by adding the following lines to your code:
ch_non_contextual = 1;
var ch_queries = new Array(’laptop’, ‘ipod’);
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];Please note: Replace the list of queries above (marked in red) with a meaningful set of products or queries for your type of audience.
If you have any queries, send email to info@chitika.com – and believe me it is the fastest instant support I have seen. So you can use Chitika eMiniMalls & Google Adsense on the same page, but remember to make the Chitika ads non contextual. I have also started using Chitika on my blog and will let you know how it performs. I am hearing it has a lower CTR, but the earning per click is great! Sign Up Now
Update: Chitika Customer Service was kind enough to email me this tip on their own!
“Here is another trick: Instead of generic keywords like “oil” and “science”, try and use product names that you think might make sense for your site and audience. For example, if you have a site about wine, I would use code like this:
ch_non_contextual = 1;
var ch_queries = new Array(’Louis Jadot Pouilly-Fuisse 2003′, ‘Sonoma-Cutrer 2003 Chardonnay Russian River Ranches’);
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];So that begs the question: How do you know what the top products in your category are ? Visit Amazon.com and Shopping.com and look at the best selling products in the category. Then copy the entire product name and test it out using the the search tab on the unit on http://chitika.com/ (PS: By using chitika.com you are not inflating your own stats). If it works, add it to the list of queries in ch_queries in your code.”
And they sent another tip about their upcomming channel tracking feature so that you can keep track of which channels are giving the best income.
“Also, we have a channel tracking feature coming soon. The reporting on that is not ready as yet, but you can add this line:
ch_sid = ‘ABCD’;
Replace ABCD with a meaningful channel name. Unlike Adsense, you get to define your own channel names. “
Update II: Chitika has confirmed in a email that if you run Google Adsense for Search too, then you need to disable the Chitka search box by adding the following code
Only if you have Google search on your site, do you need to disable the
search tab.Yes. You can do that using this line:
ch_nosearch = 1;
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Thanks for the Chitika keywords array code. Yes, Chitika minimalls pay per click is few hundred % higher than Adsense. :)
Great tips here!
I am using Chitika eMiniMalls on my blogs and they are performing wonderfully.
Awesome tips. I’ve recently added eMiniMalls at my site and put your tips in use. I’m still curious how it will perform at my site.
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Yeah I like this.
Question: will you be expanding the stats section in the future? More up to date maybe? Thanks!
One problem may be if you use an adserver like phpadsnew the actual chitika code is not visible if someone views source so there’s no way of knowing if contextual is set to off or not.
To make integrating eMiniMalls easier, I developed a plugin that lets you put an eMiniMall right into your post, using WordPress’ Quicktags Toolbar. The plugin lets you insert one into your post by clicking a button.
The plugin provides a way to switch between “contextual” and “non-contextual” mode– without having to manually change the JavaScript.
To download and set-up, see this post for more information on my eMiniMall Plugin for WordPress.
Check out my Chitika tips list I added a way to change the default tab order.
A commenter over at JenSense pointed out users of Chitika ads also need to remove the ad’s search capabilities if you use Google Adsense search too.
To remove the Chitika search capability, add this line of code to your Chitika script…
ch_nosearch = 1;
I am unhappy with one of their conditions. They say that “Every month Chitika audits the clicks that we receive from all of our publishers sites. In the audit process we remove any invalid clicks such as: repeated clicks from the same ip, clicks from countries such as China and India, etc. This is done to protect our advertisers from fraudulent clicks”.
All clicks originating from China and India are invalid. All? Why have they singling out China and India only? Click fraud can happen from any country. Why can’t they just block out such IPs, instead of blocking out the entire country? I still have to get a convincing answer from Chitika on this.
Only got around 50c click/per with eMinimalls (total $5~6 one day)
I am just wondering what are everyone’s experience?
Great article.
Another fine review with further hacking and optimization tips :
Chitika Tips, Tricks and Hacking Guide
Lazza.
The need to remove the Chitika search, if you have Adsense Search, does not make sense — they are not searching the same set of data.
Adsense Search is searching the Internet for data from websites. Chitika search is searching their database of product ads.
Are we sure that we can not use the Chitika search tool — we’re leaving a lot of money on the table by skipping it.
I agree the chitka search is very useful. But Chitika and Adsense feedback says they cannot work together on the same site.
” Why have they singling out China and India only? ”
Maybe as they are Indians they know something you don’t (Chitika is a Telugu word – must be some association there with India).
Chitika has recently said that Google has ok’ed using the chitika search box on pages with a google search box, as the chitika box is only searching products, not the web, and is thus not direct competition. I’d probably still check with google first.
-Gary
TiVo, DirecTV, Dish Network Blog
PC,
Consider the following snippet:
ch_query = “canon powershot”;
ch_non_contextual = 0;
Since I am specify the target keyword, will this combination be considered non-contextual ?
Amit.
Making money online is the way of the future.
Thanks for the information as I wanted to try Chitika ads
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