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Yesterday I gave some Chitika tips for making money with eMiniMalls.

Today I’m going to get a little bit more advanced with the tips and tricks! Thats why I wanted to seperate the two posts.

First, if you aren’t signed up yet, you should signup for Chitika’s eMiniMalls now.

I’m going to show you a Chitika eMiniMall advertisement.

This is the actual CODE that creates that ad:

Now there are some cool things I want to point out that can help you develop some better performing ads.

You already know that you can change the size of the eMiniMall. So this would allow you to put a 160 x 160 ad to go in the navigation column of one of your web sites… or to go right inside an article where you were talking about a specific product. Cool right? So this would look like:

ch_width = 160;
ch_height = 160;

One of the keys to being able to use eMiniMalls on a site that also uses Google Adsense is to use specific keywords. So in my example above I am randomly selecting an ad from 4 different keywords: Ipod Nano, Ipod Mini, HDTV, and cell phone. This is what that little bit of code looks like:

var ch_queries = new Array( "ipod nano", "ipod mini", "hdtv", "cell phone" );

Now lets say you did NOT want to put it on a page with Adsense. What you could do is make the ad dynamic. So maybe you were generating a bunch of pages from a database and you didn’t want to hardcode the ad. Instead by emailing support@chitika.com you can ask them to allow you to do dynamic ads. Here is the code change you’d make:

Change this:

ch_non_contextual = 1;
var ch_queries = new Array( "ipod nano", "ipod mini", "hdtv", "cell phone" );
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];


To This:

ch_non_contextual = 0;


That is one way to make your ads on your site dynamic!

Another way to do it, if you are a blogger is based on the title of your blog. Your chitika code would look like this:

Moveable Type Users:
ch_query = "< ? $MTEntryTitle$ ?>";

WordPress Users:
ch_query = "< ?php the_title(); ?>";

So now you are armed and dangerous! You can change your Chitika ads and test different ad formats and see what works best for you. I highly encourage you all to test, test, test!

WAIT, Ben, how do I track my ads so I can test them?

Glad you stopped me! I almost didn’t tell you the single most important tip of all! The most important thing is to track your Chitika ads! You can do that with the following code:

ch_sid = 'XXXX'

You’d add that code before the line:

//-->

Now you can create “SID”s. These are sales ids. So you could put in a code like:

ch_sid = 'BensBlogHeader'

Then you can track all clicks to the ad in your header. You might do another one like BensBlogNavBar to track an ad in your navigation bar.

Keep in mind SIDS are brand new and aren’t showing up in reports yet, but I’ve been told that they are coming soon and Chitika already suggests this method in their FAQ.

Wow! A ton of tips today, thats a lot for you guys to digest.

Let me know if you have some Chitika tips of your own!

- Ben Fitts

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