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Chitika (aff) is the next big money maker after Adsense. It pay on a per click basis just like Adsense, but its not contextual and due to this fact, click through rates are considerably lower than that of Adsense ads. You can make Chitika Ads to deliver content related ads and boost your clicks using this trick. Actually this isn’t a trick, but a common optimization technique which is not so popular among Chitika publishers.

Simplest way to make Chitika show content relevant ads is by making it sniff your post’s title. You can achieve this by replacing chitika keywords by your blogging script’s Title Tag. For Wordpress, it would look like this:

Replace

[code lang="javascript"]var ch_queries = new Array( “keyword1″, “keyword2″, “keyword3″ );[/code]

with

[code lang="javascript"]var ch_queries = new Array( “< ?php the_title(); ?>” );[/code]

I’m not so familar with Blogger and Movable Type, but I’m sure that this optimisation Technique will work if you change the corresponding title tag

Note: This optimization technique works well with both eMiniMall Ads and RPU units. Let me know, if this technique worked for you.

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Update: This optimization technique won’t violate Adsense TOS because Chitika isn’t a Contextual, You are just tweaking it by providing related keywords. Even the Darren Rowse from Problogger.net uses this technique along with Adsense on his Digital Photography Blog, but feel free to ask this question with Adsense folks. [Thanks for reminding me Ajay]



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  1. Wouldn’t this clash with Adsense Policies?

  2. Ajay: No, it won’t hurt Adsense. Read the post again, I have updated it.

  3. Yup, good point indeed, I got a better suggestion about your tip. I will blog about it tomorrow :)

  4. Hmmm. A good technique to use.
    Though, if I were to use Chikita which I am not doing presently, I would actually supply the keywords as the categories of the post because my titles are usually weird (owing to the fact that I am an avid reader of Copyblogger.com)

  5. For Blogger/Blogspot it would be
    var ch_queries = new Array( “” );

    But the unit should come under tag ….

  6. Kaileena: There must be a Blogger Template tag for title. I guess its < $BlogItemTitle$>

  7. yea you’re right thilak but i forget about the html tags :) and should comes under …

  8. Good tip Thilak,

    I haven’t really used chitika that much at all but I am hoping to start later on.This tip is pretty much known to many.

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