In an attempt to play with my knowledge of AdSense, Chitika, and SEO, I am creating a series of single page sites. Essentially, information sites, design to provide basic information and provide links to purchase products, online.
Primarily, I will be using AdSense and Chitika. If one does not perform well, it will be removed and replaced. As you can see, I am also using Amazon.com. I don’t know how well my amazon link will do… we’ll see.
There’s big news afoot around the Chitika circles. Chitika’s eMiniMalls program has added category support.
Publishers can now select “category hints” for their Chitika ads. Essentially, it works like this. If you select a keyword, and there is no add availible for that keyword, Chitika will automatically place an ad from your chosen category. An ad that is - more or less - relevant. Here’s Chitika’s explanation: Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: Chitika, eMiniMalls, category hintsI’m sure you regulars have already noticed that my layout has changed, slightly. If you were around for earlier, you would have caught my experimenting with it, a bit. Unfortunately, while it worked decently for firefox, it broke - inexplicably - under Internet Explorer. Until I can get a good CSS designer to come in and work with me (for free, heh), I’ll be sticking with what I’ve got - for the most part. Although, I am working on another layout which, if approved, will probably be smashingly successful.
You may have also noticed some changes in the monetization of this website. Can ya blame me? heh. I never said I wasn’t going into this to make money. I just said I’d never let making money overrule my passion for blogging. As soon as making money becomes more important, well, blogging just isn’t as fun.
So, in an attempt to not only make more money, but also garner some powerful and beneficial knowledge of both SEO and monetization, I’ve partnered with One Way Adversiting and Design and Chitika News (blog) for a case study.
Originally, OneWay was going for a case study surrounding Chitika. However, with so many of the applicants using both Adsense/YPN and Chitika, the rules have changed. Now it’s the best bang for the buck (so to speak). I’m relatively free to talk about things, as they happen, and at the conclusion of the study, results will be compiled into an ebook.
If you want to play along, I highly suggest signing up with Google Adsense, and/or Chitika E-Minimalls for your own website. Referral links (and I’d appreciate it if you’d use them) are on the permalink.
So what’s happening so far?
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I was pleasently surprised, today, to check my Google Sitemap stats. According to the Google Sitemaps blog, Google is now showing the top 20 queries you list for in the SERPs, and the top 20 queries people actually clicked on to go to your site (prior, it was only the top five, each). The ultra-cool thing is that sitemaps accounts are free, and you do not actually have to have a sitemap to sign up. Once you sign up (sitemap, or no), you will instantly see these stats.
As I was checking my stats, to day, I started clicking the queries to see where I ranked for specific queries. Obviously, I was on page one for all queries, but the surprising thing was that I took page one, position one, for “Chitika Revenue“. I was very surprised at this, as this would appear to be a much sought after position and keyword combination. Additionally, I am page one, position four for the query “adsense chitika“. (Both queries were issues without quotes.) As I’m only a page-rank four (PR4) website, this is a little surprising. Very nice, but surprising. Don’t let anyone fool you, folks, SEO on your blog is an important thing. Keywords in titles, and well-written articles do get you listed high in the search engines, even with a lower PR.
Jeremy over at Shoemoney broke a story about Chitika’s backend, recently. It appears that Chitika is powered by PostNuke, the old - and insecure - php-based portal system.
So I am logging into my Chitika account the other day and I look at there navigation system on the side and I just keep thinking to myself man I have seen this whole theme before somewhere. With the + dropdown links and other stuff it just seems so familiar. Then all of a sudden it hits me. Chitika has stolen a Postnuke CMS theme. The default theme that comes with Postnuke. OHH BUT WAIT it doesnt stop there…. After viewing source on there webpage after logging into there system we see this <meta name=”generator” content=”PostNuke - http://www.postnuke.com”>
