Chitika eMiniMalls Review
Chitika eMiniMalls info
Chitika ads work on pay per click basis. Mini-malls are contextual ads; they look at your site content and try to find ads that are relevant with it – set by default. You can set the ads to be non contextual and to target specific keyword. Chitika eMiniMalls is designed to help you earn money with your websites blogs).
To get started using Chitika go to the sign up page.
To have a correct view about Chitika I will compare it with Google Adsense.
Chitika the good part
The Cost per Click is very good. Mini malls are considerably higher than the average click value of Adsense - some words are 5 or 6 times higher.
Interactivity eMiniMalls brings product promotion to life on the web. Your visitors will see a picture of the product and they can click on three tabs: Description tab shows the description, Best deals tab shows the smallest prices of the product and Search tab allows your visitors to Search for other products without leaving your page.
Chitika eMiniMalls uses pictures to grab people attentions and you know that an image can worth 1000 words.
Ad Formats - Chitika offer 10 different size formats in some pretty standard sizes. It has some interesting formats as well like: multi-product blog banner (468 x 180), multi-product square (250 X 250) and multi-product leaderboard (728 x 90)
Geo targeted visitors to certain countries can see offers from local merchants. At this time Chitika supports traffic from the following countries: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and Sweden.
Categories – there are many categories to choose from to keep your ads targeted and get a good click through rate.
Chitika the bad part
Click Through Rate - The percentage of people clicking on eMiniMalls ads is lower than Adsense.
Chitika has poor ad matching; they are still working on how to match ads with content.
Lower Numbers of Ads Chitika has a lower number of ads than Adsense to select from.
The Reports are updated at the end of each day and give you some basic stats under the four headings of - date, impressions, clicks and revenue. These stats are called ‘unaudited’ because Chitika haven’t taken anything off the total that they suspect to be click fraud. The clicks are audited once per month using some secret process. This auditing feature is really annoying because you will see the money you earned and after that you earnings will be reduced. A smart thing to do for the Chitika staff will be making the audit process in real time so people will not be upset seeing their profits going down.
Payment is done via PayPal and check. The payments are made in US Dollars at the start of every month - around 30 days after the end of the month you’re being paid for. You need to reach a minimum of $10 to get a payment via PayPal and at least $50 to receive a check.
In conclusion the click through rate is small but the cost per click is better than the one of the similar programs. Also Chitika is interactive and grabs people attention thru pictures.
It is a smart thing to use Chitika products along with Adsense to increase you site earnings.
Quick clarification re. channels:
We do support channels. In fact we allow users to set up to 1000 channels.