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Chitika idea

Discussion in 'Chitika' started by blinxdk, Oct 25, 2005.

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    I just had a bit of an idea for Chitika, but as I know no javascript, I'm just wondering if someone have had the same idea and already done it.

    It's like this: as you can pick the product yourself, I though wouldn't it be nice if you showed ads for something the vistor surely is interrested in? In my case, I get most of my referrers from google image search and the refer string will then contain what type of product they are interrested in.

    So if someone finds the site searching for Michael Jackson images then it would be great to scan the document.referrer valiable to see if Michael is mentioned in it, in wich case the chitika keyword will be Michael Jackson, if not - it'll be some of my other preselected keywords.

    Anyone done something like that or shall I go convert my page to php so I can do it myself? :)
     
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    I'm doing something similar.... except I grab either the category of the page or the first word in the title of the page. In both cases those would be the best words to target in ads for my sites.
     
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  3. blinxdk

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    The problem on this site is that I have a page with lots of different subjects so it's a bit uncertain to just circle between the ads - I could show christina aguilera dvds to people looking for Marilyn Manson pictures and I doubt that improves my click rate :)

    I think I shall implement it in php and then configure my apache to parse all pages as php so I don't have to rename the page and loose traffic.
     
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    Cool - thanks for implementing it! :)
     
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    vBMechanic, nice site, nice js code. I'll give you a link from my tips page. (I can't have the best collection of tips if I leave your tip out!)
     
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    Cheers, mate. I've been following your adwords ads around; nice site and effective ads I bet.
     
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    vBMechanic,

    That's a really cool piece of code. Did you find that your earnings increased once it was implemented?

    At the moment I am using fairly targeted (but static) keywords, so it would be interesting to see how this more dynamic approach would work.
     
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    vBMechanic, any chance you could make it work with google images?
     
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    Damn, and I was wondering who kept multiple clicking those ads!

    (Only kidding, only kidding :)).

    The link from my tips page to your site is now live.
     
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    Thanks! I just wrote it this morning after blinxdx came up with it; I don't personally have it implemented anywhere. My gut feeling says that it would work very well on a site that talks about lots of different products on a page.


    >>vBMechanic, any chance you could make it work with google images?

    Let me look at the query string; I didn't think it was any different than normal.
     
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    OK I looked at it; looks like it uses q= just like normal google. Can you paste in a referral string from your site when someone found it through Google Images?
     
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    Hmm.. actually it looks like the refer is first sent when you choose to remove the google search frame. So that might complicate things.
     
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    It is there, just buried inside of a string-escaped URL.. you'll see the q%3Dkirstin%2Bdunst is in it.. but yea, it would complicate it quite a bit. I'll look into it when I get a moment.
     
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