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How to place Chitika Ads on a Blogger Blog

Wednesday 26 October 2005 @ 7:50 am

It’s easy enough to put Chitika ads on a wordpress blog, but you may have wondered:

Can I place Chitika Ads on a Blogger Blog?

The answer is YES. And it’s not hard. How to put Chitika Ads on a Blogger Blog.

Firstly - Chitika is a great solution if your blog is about hard products - some people wonder if Chitika has a good enough range - well they do is the short answer - and this range will explode because Chitika is going to become more popular. People are already earning hundreds of dollars per month with Chitika. As a companion or alternative to adsense it is great.

The first thing you need to do is get a Chitika Account

You can apply for a chitika account here

Normally it will take 24 hours for your site to be approved. Be sure your site complies with the terms before you apply with Chitika.

Next open your blogger management account

1. Go to templates
2 .Paste the code (from the Chitika site)vat the appropriate spot in your template
3. Save the template and republish the blog
4. View your blog to make sure it is displaying as your want it.
5. Tweak to adjust as you want it.

And there you have it. Chitika on your blogger blog - now you just need to check your Chitika
stats and adjust the ads where necessary to fit your blog.

Some points to note

1. You must leave your Chitika settings at non-contextual(the default) if you also have adsense
ads on the same page. Keywords can be added directly into the code.
2. If you run adsense search you must turn off chitika search.

Can you ad Chitika to multiple blogger blogs

Yes, once one site has been approved you can use Chitika on all your sites - provided they comply with the terms, without reapplication.

I hope this helps.

P.S Once you have your Chitika ID this whole procedure takes about 10 minutes.
If you want to see an example of a chitika ad on a blogger blog visit Price Comparison Sites

chitika eminimalls

P.P.S I suppose I should mention that Joel Comm - an author who wrote Adsense Secrets has now finished and released Chitika Eminimalls Secrets - to be honest I did not by the first book, but I know a lot of people who did and they thought it was pretty good. I have not read this one either, but I probably should. Chitika eMiniMalls Secrets

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PHP Designer 2006

Tuesday 25 October 2005 @ 5:11 am

It looks like the release of PHP Designer 2006 is well on the way. The software programmer, Michael Pham has released screen shots of the new interface. You can see them here.

The current program, PHP Designer 2005, provides a very clean interface for PHP developers. Switch syntax views between CSS, PHP, Java and more. Run code from the console - requires php installation on your machine.

This is a very nice program for coding in PHP. PHP Designer 2006 is sure to be even better than the 2005 version.

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Chitika Tutorial

Monday 24 October 2005 @ 3:51 am

Chitika is the latest PPC ad network sweeping the internet. It has taken off in the blogging community especially mostly I would say by a combination of excellent product and smart marketing. Prominent bloggers have taken to it and it’s service is attracting the big guns.

Chitika is the next revolution in contextual search marketing (not just my opinion) and will be experiencing explosive growth. It already has a strong subscriber base.

I have signed up with Chitika and my own experience has been extremely pleasant so far. My account console is clear and simple and I was up and running in less than 24 hours. For anyone who has used adsense before it is a breeze.

What’s the difference between Chitika and Adsense

Firstly the similarities are that they both can be contextual - meaning that the ads displayed on a publishers site relate to the content in a dynamic way. However with Chitika you have the option of turning off contextual advertising - and in fact have too if displaying Adsense and Chitika on the same page.

This is a simple matter.

How to turn off Chitika contextual ads

The Chitika code is pasted into your page - just like adsense. There is a line in your code:
ch_non_contextual = 1;

This is actually the default so you really don’t need to change anything to make it non-contextual.
If the value of this code about says 1 it means it is already non-contextual.

Now you can display Chitika ads and Adsense on the same page.

How to change the colours of my Chitika ads

There is a easy point and click colour picker provided in the Chitika admin interface.

How often does Chitika update your stats

From my experience this is done once per day, but they say that they are working on
more frequent updating.

What’s the coolest thing I found out about Chitika recently

There is an important difference with regard to price per click. Currently Chitika pays the same click price to a publisher with only a small amount of traffic as they do to a huge traffic site. Adsense has something called smart pricing which means that if you are low in the search engine you may only be earning a few cents a click while someone else may get several times as much for the same ad.

I have a number of high position pages - but overall with the new adsense smart pricing - my income has dropped from adsense. I believe Chitika is a fresh look. They seem to be taking the best from everywhere and putting it into their program.

How do I get Started as a Chitika Publisher

Simply apply here - once your site is approved - takes about 24 hours - you can place the Chitika code on any of your sites.

How to increase the clickthru with Chitika

Optimising Chitika ads to increase clickthru rate, follows the same principle as adsense. Merge the ads into your site - so that the background colors match - using Chitika color picker - or even hacking the code - they don’t mind if you change the colours to suit your site. Place the ads above the fold (so they are in the most prominent place ) Use Similar positioning techniques to adsense and then test.

The ads are themselves interactive but strangely pleasant. I don’t know how they did this but I’m impressed.

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