If you’re not running Chitika | Premium Ads yet, now might be a good time to try. Especially if you can come up with interesting ways to display your ads.

You see, they are giving away a total of $200 for “the most interesting/cool/unique placements of Chitika | Premium ads”.

What does it mean to have a cool/interesting/unique ad placement? Well, according to Chitika, “a good way to place these ads is by placing the ads inside the content (right after the first paragraph) – which will generally earn a very high CTR/eCPM. But since it will only display to search engine traffic, it will not display to your regular readers (they won’t be annoyed by ads in the middle of their content!).”

The one who can come up with the best placement will receive $100, and 2 runners-up will receive $50 each. To enter, email specialprojects@chitika.com with a link to your interesting Premium ad implementation. Chitika asks entries to include a sentence or 2 about the ad setup. Deadline for this is on 12:00pm US EDT on Monday, November 10.

Good luck with it!

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Chitika’s $200 Giveaway

One of the things I’ve started to learn more about lately is domain cash parking. And, ever since I blogged about it, I realised that it’s a subject that a lot of people want to learn more about. But, other than the usual suspects with domain cash parking services (Sedo, Godaddy, etc), I wanted to find out other options.

A few days ago, I found out that Chitika offers a similar product/service, wherein you can redirect your domain name to a pre-made Chitika shop site. If you already have a Chitika account and an available domain name, you simply choose that service on your Chitika account management area. Then, you input your domain name and your chosen keywords. It will then generate a shop site. You then update your domain’s nameservers to point to Chitika’s nameservers. If you have some domain names that you’re not using, this might be worth exploring.

To see this in action, check out Crafty Toys.

Have you tried using this yet? Let me know what you think of it!

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DIY Domain Cash Parking on Chitika

If you haven’t taken up the Chitika | Premium challenge yet, you might want to try it now. In this challenge, Chitika is offering to match any revenue that you generate from the premium ad (up to $100), until 30th of June. However, you must install the code on your blog on or before the 6th of June 2008.

Some important notes on Chitika | Premium:
1) Ad codes must be above or just below your article titles.
2) Ads only get served to *some* U.S. readers/viewers.
3) To avoid a ‘blank space’ (and wasted revenue stream), you’re encouraged to use an alternate URL. That alternate URL may show a different ad that will be served to readers/visitors who do not get to see the Chitika | Premium ad.
4) These ads are CPC (Cost Per Click). So, you will make money from readers/visitors who see and click on these ads, even if they don’t do anything else.

* Disclosure:
1) Some affiliate links included in this post.
2) Chitika and b5media recently announced a partnership regarding the Premium Ads programme.

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Chitika | Premium Challenge

This is part of the A-Z of Making Money Online series. This series covers the various ways of making money online, in alphabetical order.

Cafepress – One of the most popular marketplaces for affiliate merchandising. Just start your own shop, upload your original designs, put a mark-up for your profits, then sell, sell, sell. Cafepress takes care of the printing, shipping, returns, and other similar services. Highly competitive, but still workable. You can also check out Cafepress alternatives.

Chitika – An advertising programme that makes use of various formats like mini malls. A few people have reported good earnings from Chitika. It’s best suited to product-oriented blogs.

Clickbank – A popular online marketplace for information products like ebooks. Authors and publishers can use their services to find affiliates to sell their products. Affiliates can look for products that they’re interested in and they can sell them to get commissions. Commissions vary from one product to another.

Constant-Content – A content marketplace where you can bid for or sell your writing.

Consulting and Counseling – If you have a specific area of expertise, then becoming an online consultant or online counselor may be a career path that you wish to take when it comes to making money on the web.

Content Writing – Writing content for blogs, websites, online shops, PR companies, etc is one good way to make money online.

Contests + Competitions – There are several contests and competitions that happen all over the web. Some offer products or services as prizes. Some offer cash. This is an alternative way for some people to make money online.

CrispAds – Another advertising program that are used by some bloggers and website owners.

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C is for…

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When I first looked at Chitika’s contextual advertising programme, I wasn’t blown away immediately. Well, I’ve been testing it out due to positive reviews that I’ve been reading (like this). However, so far, I’m still not impressed.

I’ve been running Chitika* Mini Malls ads for the past couple of weeks in various blogs/sites — and I’m underwhelmed. Not only is it difficult to get relevant ads, the impressions vs. clickthroughs are just incredibly low. Maybe I haven’t positioned them well, maybe I’ve got too many other competings ads, maybe they haven’t optimised properly… Well, whatever the reason may be, I’m still holding on to AdSense tightly.

I must be in the minority, as I’ve been seeing them everywhere lately. I’m not sure if I’ll change my views another time.

Also See: Chitika eMini Malls

*affiliate link

NOTE: This Chitika write-up needs to be updated.

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Chitika Mini Malls