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   By: Karla Escolas “What are you an expert reviewer of?” The only reason I own the digital camera I have now is because my brother insisted is was worth what he paid for it. He showed me that the initial expense of the camera would turn out to be less than what I’d spend… Continue reading Helping you be your own product review expert

Much speculation and debate erupted in response to a September 2007 comScore report on display advertising on the social network sites MySpace and Facebook. MySpace dominates over Facebook in terms of user base (measured by unique visitors), as well as number of display ads served per page. Let’s talk business. Pushing consideration of the systematic… Continue reading Monetizing Ad Space or Saving Brand Face

Holiday wish lists are becoming a popular way hint to your friends and family some things you are interested in this year and believe it or not, they will thank you for it. Shopping isn’t always easy, especially if your one of those people who seem to have everything. You can actually make your own… Continue reading Turn ShopCloud$ into Your Holiday Wish List

Chitika’s official forum quickly gained popularity as a direct connection between publishers and the Chitika staff. Product & feature requests started pouring in and publishers now look at the forum as a great way to ask simple/casual questions to the community at large. The member count doubled almost instantly once we opened the doors to… Continue reading Chitika SPHERE almost at 600!

This 2007 holiday shopping season the Chitika team family is working overtime to find out the hottest products in Chitika’s network. We like to know what’s going on with our customers, and thanks to our extensive data reporting systems (and amazing engineers) we are able to discern the most commonly clicked keyword categories. The Apple… Continue reading Makin' a List, Checkin' it Twice…

Looks like it’s that time of year again! We got a nice holiday surprise from one of our publishers today, Enrique Flouret, of The Photoshop Roadmap: Naturally we did nothing but pick through this tower of goodies all day 🙂 Thanks Enrique!

   By: Karla Escolas “Tis the season for code freedom” In honor of “publisher tip day” on the Chitika Blog (since today’s previous post also happens to be a publisher tip) I would like to highlight a question asked by a publisher in our forum, Chitika SPHERE. The question was: “Are we allowed to rearrange… Continue reading Does Matter Code Really Order?

  By: Stasys Bielinis    My Blog “You try to use the relevant keywords in your blog post headlines, don’t you?” When displaying pay-per-click ads (PPC), the ad targeting can make the key difference between dismal and excellent click through rate. Why should anyone click a flower ad on your gadget website? Even default keyword… Continue reading Let eMiniMalls do your dirty work -A Publisher Tip

     By: Mike Axiak “Sympathizes with Linx Servers” Linx is out! I know you all know this already, but I still don’t believe it. Three weeks and over 300 publishers later, there are still many improvements that are being pushed out, and many really cool changes that will come down in the not-so-distant future.… Continue reading Check your Linx; better targeting & more to come

   By: Karla Escolas “Do you have a shopping mall on your website?” I’m guilty of two things: last minute holiday shopping & comparing prices. As I walked into my third mall of the day yesterday I realized it had taken hours to find the same product at different prices, when instead I could’ve searched… Continue reading More than an ad unit – a complete comparison shopping tool