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The magicians engineers are cooking up a cool new Chitika ad unit – the Chitika search unit.   As you can see, your users will have the ability to search your site, or search the web, all without leaving the page (results are displayed inside the unit).  We will have 2 separate tabs – 1 for… Continue reading New Ad Unit Being Tested… Are You Interested?

A number of publishers have requested that we add a feature to allow you to download your customized reports to Excel (or OpenOffice, for you open-source geeks like us!). Well the number-crunchers can rejoice as that feature is now live – reports can now be downloaded to CSV format which you can open into any… Continue reading New Reports Feature: See Your Reports How YOU Want To

The end of the week can be tough, as the last few minutes and hours of the day count down and the weekend seems soooo far away…so, here’s something adorable to brighten up the rest of your day: The first picture of eMiniMalls Escolas!!   Congratulations to Karla and Mike on their 6 lb, 5oz… Continue reading A Quick Friday Pick-Me-Up

Three quick facts about us here at Chitika: 1.) The first-ever Chitika staff meeting took place at a Wendy’s in Waltham, MA. 2.) One of the names considered for the eMiniMalls ad unit was ‘MiniPortal’ (but nobody understood what the heck it meant). 3.) Karla Escolas, who has done such an incredible job as the… Continue reading Three Things You Didn't Know About: Chitika

Aaron Wall, author of SEOBook and seobook.com posted an article today calling Chitika the “5th search engine” and offered the following observation: They have been aggressively signing up bloggers and other independent publishers, and are now getting over 2 billion monthly impressions, with their behaviorally targeted Premium ads getting hundreds of millions of monthly search… Continue reading "Chitika is the 5th Search Engine" says Aaron Wall

Editor’s note: I don’t understand most of the references in this post, but I’ve been assured they make sense. Strap on your hockey skates and order up a “double-double” at Tim Hortons because we’re happy to announce we now support traffic from Canada in our Chitika | Premium ad program! While it may seem like… Continue reading Chitika | Premium – Oh, Canada!

YOU: Have a website with a good amount of US search engine traffic and are looking for highly targeted text ads that will earn you revenue. You need access to a large, diverse set of inventory with clean content for your pages. After all, you like to keep your visitors happy. Chitika|Premium ad units: Behaviorally-targeted… Continue reading Get Started Quickly with Chitika|Premium

   By: Alden DoRosario CTO, Chitika Inc. Over the last couple of weeks, a host of ad networks have begun using Chitika | Premium within their own advertising inventory; some small, some much, much larger (Think: Comscore Top-50 type). This post is about the dynamics of using Chitika | Premium in your own ad network.… Continue reading Chitika | Premium for Ad Networks

Chitika Inc. was founded just 5 years ago in 2003 and since then, we’ve created over 70+ power-packed revenue-earning ad units for our publishers. We increased our publisher base by almost 15,000 in the past year alone by expanding our advertiser inventory to be suitable for ALL types of websites. Here’s a list of a… Continue reading 26,000+ Publishers and Counting…

Extend Your SEM Reach. Keep Your Keywords. Why are we stopping SEM at search when we can take the power of keyword targeting beyond search? Ask any successful search engine marketing client what their successful, perhaps kick-a$$, keywords are and he or she will happily list off enough to compose a lengthy tongue twister. We… Continue reading SBM. The Extended SEM.