A lot of website owners are constantly on the lookout for ways to make money off their website traffic. Google Adsense is the main moneymaker for most. Others are trying the new Yahoo! Publisher Network.One of the more interesting newcomers to the market is the Chitika eMiniMalls.

Chitika eMiniMalls are very easy to use and very easy to set up. Once you are accepted into the program you will use an area in your account that creates the eMiniMalls Code for your website. You can specify custom colors for your border, your title, your text and your background. You have 10 different ad formats to choose from. Once your code is generated you simply copy and paste it into your website where you want the Chitika ads to appear. Voila! You are in business with Chitika eMiniMalls.

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Although Chitika has been around since 1993, not many people were aware of them in the website marketing business, in fact, I myself didn’t realize of there existence until I saw people start bragging about how much money they were making of off them, even over Adsense.So, what’s the big deal? You may ask. Well that’s pretty simple actually, Chitika has invented a revolutionary ad-type called eMiniMaills. These eMiniMalls are banner sized shopping cart displaying items that you choose by keywords, and you get paid for every click on the ads.

Chitika introduced eMiniMalls in June of ‘05, but people really started to utilize them quite recently, and started to realize the true power that they held over the common consumer. From most, if not all, reports that I’ve seen, most people’s Chitika earnings have surpassed there Adsense earnings by a large amount, and this is no small feat.

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What Are Chitika eMiniMallseMiniMalls are a new advertising system that is published and run by Chitika, Inc. The “mini malls” are CPC (cost per click) ads that always advertise one specific product, which is contextually targeted to your content. Their biggest difference to normal banner ads is their interactivity: Every ad unit consists of several tabs which the user can scroll over to view different information about the advertised product like a description, reviews, a search function or best deals. You can see an example ad unit at the Chitika homepage.

Similarities To AdSense

The first thing that’s similar to the Google AdSense program is of course that you are also paid on a per click basis (CPC). That means that you earn money every time a visitor clicks on your eMiniMalls, he doesn’t actually have to buy the product. Like AdSense ads the eMiniMalls are very customizable to make them fit to the look of your website: You can specify the background color, the border color, the link color and the text color of your ads and I recommend you to take all those steps to increase your CTR (click through rate) of your advertisements considerably. Chitika ads are (again like AdSense) available in all the different standard banner sizes like for example leaderboard, skyscraper, rectangle and so on but you can also choose some quite special formats like blog banner ( which is a 468×180px ad). Altogether there are ten different formats to choose from.

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