Chitika eMiniMalls - How much do you make?

[ethanwa]

Ok I have Adsense and Chitika eMiniMalls on my page now and although my Adsense per day has dropped a bit yesterday I made more than triple what I lost off of the eMiniMalls instead. This was my first day using them.

How much do you make per month off of eMiniMalls compared to Google Adsense?

[tbarr60]

I use Chitika on sites that also have Adsense. For my topics, primarily business and technology, Chitika doesn't do nearly as well as Adsense. Would you mind sharing what niche or general category you have success with Chitika in? I am dusting off some general interest sites (cell phone, AOL, humor, etc) that appeal to teens to see how Chitika might work.

[kniveswood]

I use Chitika on sites that also have Adsense. For my topics, primarily business and technology, Chitika doesn't do nearly as well as Adsense. Would you mind sharing what niche or general category you have success with Chitika in? I am dusting off some general interest sites (cell phone, AOL, humor, etc) that appeal to teens to see how Chitika might work.
Cell phones should do well. As you can see, Chitika is really product-oriented.

[aeiouy]

I have been very pleased with the chitika return so far.

[TheHoff]

The difference might be attributed to the type of user on your site, not just the site topic. Are they after information or are they browsing for leisure? Leisure browsing sites do well with Chitika.

[ethanwa]

anyone care to share monthly $ amounts compared to their Adsense?

[tbarr60]

The difference might be attributed to the type of user on your site, not just the site topic. Are they after information or are they browsing for leisure? Leisure browsing sites do well with Chitika.

Yeah, I don't think by business and technical audience is clicking on the ipod or camera that much. I added Chiticaka to my old leisure sites and started pushing a lot more traffic to them last night. Adsense jumped up and we'll see how it goes with Chitika.

[Storyteller1]

I just began implementing Chitika in my personal-finance site a few weeks ago. Adsense has been a fixture there since December 2004. Chitika's on very few pages so far, but it's been getting clicks here and there. At its current rate, I'll be getting money from them each month, but not much over $10.

Mostly, I think, it's a matter of figuring out how to best implement the Chitika ads on my site overall. I can find some topically-related products in their offerings, but not a great many.

Hopefully that can change over time . . ..

[alang]

what I can say, my chitika earning is more than adsense and it is 3 figures income a day

[andy_boyd]

Storyteller,

I have a few financial credit card sites that do OK with AdSense. What kind of Chitika ads are you serving for your visitors? What products are you offering?

[Sanzbar]

Do they have financial contextual ads or just hard-good products?

[Merkersarl]

I don't think that replacing Adsense completely with Chitika is a good idea. I mix the two. As my signature indicates I was doing a five figure sum with Adsense on a range of technology, employment, music and video sites. It's still the case that some pages are better suited to Adsense (particularly pages where Chitika don't have a strong db of ads). Even on pages that are ideal for Chitika I mix the two and blend Adsense into columns/headers/footers and leave Chitika in very bold positions.

I should make a five figure sum from Chitika this month and it should be about 150% of what I made in Adsense last month. But, because I haven't stopped all my Adsense ads Google will still pay me about 75% of what I used to make before. Overall... I'm much ahead :-) By mixing Google and Chitika I've more than doubled my income overnight (well, it took a fair few days to implement the code on a range of vastly different sites).

[Storyteller1]

Storyteller,

I have a few financial credit card sites that do OK with AdSense. What kind of Chitika ads are you serving for your visitors? What products are you offering?

As far as the Chitika ads, I show ads for financial software, financial magazines, Dell laptops & desktops (I couldn't do MY finances without 'em) ... that sort of thing. Amazon affiliate ads for personal-finance books and books I review.

As far as my "products offered," it's purely financial advice. Education site with a blog thrown in for fun. Free spreadsheets. I'll be making my first attempt here shortly at selling a fancy spreadsheet or two. Have no idea how that'll turn out.

But I'll never know if I don't try, right?

[oziii]

chitika is making me over double what I earn from Adsense on the same sites.

[eanimator]

what I can say, my chitika earning is more than adsense and it is 3 figures income a day

Please tell us the keywords you have been using on your site.

Thanks

[e10]

Please tell us the keywords you have been using on your site.

Thanks

Uh... sure. plonker, weasel, lazy sod, free lunch...

[alang]

Please tell us the keywords you have been using on your site.

Thanks
technology related product or gadgets. I have a review website so its work really well with chitika

[LeeD]

Alang,

What gadget products do you target with your ads to get your good results?

Thanks!

[alang]

all gadgets product :p

Make some research buddy....

[Des]

By looking for keywords it's advicable to visit some of the advertisers of the eMinimall system like shopping.com and look for nice products there and target them directly or a category in general...

[sgtsloth]

By looking for keywords it's advicable to visit some of the advertisers of the eMinimall system like shopping.com and look for nice products there and target them directly or a category in general...

Yeah, I've been doing this with Amazon.com. Helps you figure out what keywords to use. I'll try shopping.com too. Thanks. :)

[Des]

:)

By the way, the text in your signature is to small, it's unreadable for me...

[dwanthny]

Yeah, I've been doing this with Amazon.com. Helps you figure out what keywords to use. I'll try shopping.com too. Thanks. :)

Don't think keywords think products, that way you can point your customers to specific products. I labeled above my eMiniMall "Recommended Products" so clients would know that these are items I'm recommending.

http://illusionsetc.blogspot.com

[Des]

Ah that's cool, but is it allowed by Chitika?

[SEbasic]

Don't think keywords think products, that way you can point your customers to specific products. I labeled above my eMiniMall "Recommended Products" so clients would know that these are items I'm recommending.Are you sure that's allowed.

I would check.

[oziii]

It's all well and good to find high paying keywords - but really they won't do well on a site that has no relevancy to them. I'm finding the best bet is to point to relevant ads to your content - just like Adsense does. Relevancy will increase CTR which wil increase earnings.

So the question isn't 'which keywords work best' but rather what keywords are relevant to my site?

[usedmac]

So the question isn't 'which keywords work best' but rather what keywords are relevant to my site?

Exactly! I have found that by placing multiple Chitka ads on my website I am able to choose a specific product for each single ad and am able to target my website readers very well.

This works especially well for my site (http://www.usedmac.ca)

[splatdot]

Exactly! I have found that by placing multiple Chitka ads on my website I am able to choose a specific product for each single ad and am able to target my website readers very well.

If you're targeting down to a product level, why not just go with a regular affiliate program for that product? I would think the payouts would be much higher. On the other hand, it's a lot more work, unless you use something like Golden Can.

[usedmac]

If you're targeting down to a product level, why not just go with a regular affiliate program for that product? I would think the payouts would be much higher. On the other hand, it's a lot more work, unless you use something like Golden Can.

I have found that with affiliate programs you first have to get the visitor to click the ad and then purchase an item. The conversion rate for this type of transaction is very small from my experience. I prefer to get the revenue from that first click.

[oziii]

yeah I'm more of a payment for click man myself - although have been getting better at the affiliate thing too. In fact I think that they can work together really well and have been expanding things into the affiliate direction a bit lately. It certainly is rewarding if you can pick the right affiliate program and get some conversions!

[splatdot]

I can understand that. I'm actually more of an affiliate who's starting to do AdSense and Chitika so it's interesting to hear the other side.

[izahan]

My blogs are about products (gadgets & toys). I experimented with targetting my chitika ads to my blog titles to keep things relevant and my CTRs have gone up up up! Too bad my traffic is still low low low... but it does give an impressive 40% CTR!!! :D

[Blogmaster]

Uh... sure. plonker, weasel, lazy sod, free lunch...
TFF ..............................

[kniveswood]

My blogs are about products (gadgets & toys). I experimented with targetting my chitika ads to my blog titles to keep things relevant and my CTRs have gone up up up! Too bad my traffic is still low low low... but it does give an impressive 40% CTR!!! :D
The ads look really nicely implemented in your toys blog. It's not hard to see why your CTR is so high. Especially those posts where the bigger image is exactly the same as the ad's! :eek:

[izahan]

The ads look really nicely implemented in your toys blog. It's not hard to see why your CTR is so high. Especially those posts where the bigger image is exactly the same as the ad's! :eek:

I try to find different images to complement each other but it seems that everyone gets the same promo images. But it does help to have the same images as a kind of follow through I guess... have to wait for chitika to implement channels to find out which is working best.

[usedmac]

My blogs are about products (gadgets & toys). I experimented with targetting my chitika ads to my blog titles to keep things relevant and my CTRs have gone up up up! Too bad my traffic is still low low low... but it does give an impressive 40% CTR!!! :D


I am going to implement my ads into my blog like you did. Very smart!

[kniveswood]

I try to find different images to complement each other but it seems that everyone gets the same promo images. But it does help to have the same images as a kind of follow through I guess... have to wait for chitika to implement channels to find out which is working best.
Your wish came true. Channels is available now. Do let us know which is working best :)

[izahan]

Your wish came true. Channels is available now. Do let us know which is working best :)

Channels are here! Will let you know which positions are working best. :)

[izahan]

I am going to implement my ads into my blog like you did. Very smart!

Thanks for the compliment. :)

Remember to cross-check your blog post title with the chitika demo unit at chitika.com to see what ads you get.

[faffo]

I'm using chitika eminimall like izahan from about 4 days and my revenue is increased 4X/5X

This is a great use of chitika !

[izahan]

I'm using chitika eminimall like izahan from about 4 days and my revenue is increased 4X/5X

This is a great use of chitika !

I agree faffo! I see the same increase as well :D

[kniveswood]

Sounds good.

Now maybe we can discuss which default tab works better. If you look at the 468x60 format that you guys are using, unlike larger ad formats, with the Best Deals tab shown there is no description of the product at all. I believe that's not very good for those odd products that has no pictures.

Would the Product tab which has a descriptive text link work better? Or the Description tab which has a nice "Read More" link? Sure looks like one of those typical blog "read more" links.

Something we might want to consider exploring. :D

[izahan]

The 'Best Deals' tab is working good for me right now. The only thing is that I have to make sure that I get the proper product so i have to tweak the post title sometimes. The ones with no picture seems to be new deals coming up in chitika - I can live with it for now.

I would love to get the 'Read More' tabs more often but there doesn't seem to be any for toys. You can get some on expensive products - I am looking to see which ones produce 'Read More' tabs and see if it is worth to build sites around them.

One thing about the 'Read More' tab that is if you do figure out which products have them, it is still best to write your own description/review first and use 'Read More' as a complement so that people don't think that they are being suckered into a ad-only site. After all, returning traffic is good for business.

[kniveswood]

What I meant was the Description tab, which has a "Read More" link. From your World of Toys blog, I see every toy has that tab.

The 'Best Deals' tab is working good for me right now. The only thing is that I have to make sure that I get the proper product so i have to tweak the post title sometimes. The ones with no picture seems to be new deals coming up in chitika - I can live with it for now.

I would love to get the 'Read More' tabs more often but there doesn't seem to be any for toys. You can get some on expensive products - I am looking to see which ones produce 'Read More' tabs and see if it is worth to build sites around them.

One thing about the 'Read More' tab that is if you do figure out which products have them, it is still best to write your own description/review first and use 'Read More' as a complement so that people don't think that they are being suckered into a ad-only site. After all, returning traffic is good for business.

[izahan]

What I meant was the Description tab, which has a "Read More" link. From your World of Toys blog, I see every toy has that tab.


Ah ha! I didn't notice that! I know just how experiment with it though... thanks kniveswood!

[MySchizoBuddy]

The difference might be attributed to the type of user on your site, not just the site topic. Are they after information or are they browsing for leisure? Leisure browsing sites do well with Chitika.

what do u mean leisure browsing sites

what about a site about lingeries. Chitika has a huge colelction of them for me to use. do u think chitika works.

I was talking to the owner of Lingerie dreams and she said she makes 5 times more with adsense than she does with chitika

[blinxdk]

what do u mean leisure browsing sites

what about a site about lingeries. Chitika has a huge colelction of them for me to use. do u think chitika works.

I was talking to the owner of Lingerie dreams and she said she makes 5 times more with adsense than she does with chitika


The easy way to find out is to sign up and test it, as it can run together with adsense, it's pretty much no risk at all.

[izahan]

short update: the ads embedded in the posts are the main revenue makers for me. I guess it just makes more sense for visitors when they want to follow up.