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Ok, so I often recommend products or services that can make you extra money on the side. And, often you need to have one company for one website, and a different company with a different service for another website. Well, someone finally has multiple monetization products within the same company! Chitika comes to the rescue with a product that you can use on MySpace, Facebook, your website or blog, and almost anything else you can customize it to.

Chitika’s main product is a content-matching shopping advertisement called eMiniMalls. What this means, is that when you install a simple snippet of HTML in your page Chitika finds relevant product ads from hundreds of online shops to show your visitors. Not only that, it doesn’t just show one product matched to your content, it allows your visitors to search for the best prices on the product(s).

I have eMiniMalls installed on one of my sites, and it makes me quite a bit each month. I won’t say exactly how much as it’s probably against their terms of service (TOS), but it’s in the low $xxx range. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on who you are) I don’t have a Facebook or MySpace profile so I haven’t seen how the product performs on those sites. I have seen it being used though and it integrates really nicely on both sites. In fact, some of the ads I’ve seen being used on eBay look like part of eBay’s internal site so I’m sure the conversion (the amount of visitors that turn into customers) is quite high.

I should say that Chitika’s main product or service is called eMiniMalls and that it is by far currently their most popular product. eMiniMalls is used on tons of websites, blogs and even eBay as I mentioned before. As for Facebook, they just recently released a customized code for your page(s) there. Chitika’s MySpace program is called Owna and is a cool bit of code that’s extremely customizable and can easily fit-in with anybody’s MySpace profile. I wish I had a MySpace profile just to use Chitika’s Owna haha. You can see an example of the final Owna code at the end of this article. I customized it with a spinning DJ, as well as a product, which is a turntable. Lastly, they have a search cloud that you can also integrate into your site that will show all of the most popular product search terms in a cloud-shape to help people browsing for hot products.

So, you have an idea of where you’d like to put Chitika’s products but you’re wondering how you make money from it? Well, it’s a cost per action (CPA) program so basically when you refer a customer to buy a product, you make a small commission for referring the customer. Commissions depend on the price of the product, how many are bought, etc, etc.

I really like Chitika’s products because they’re up to date on their marketing and are always thinking of new ideas. They also have phenomenal support and will help you with any questions you might have. It’s also extremely easy to integrate them into any website and include the products in a non-intrusive way to the viewer.

Well, that’s all! I hope I gave you a good overview of Chitika’s services. Check them out when you get a chance as it may help you make a bit extra money on the side and might bring your site to the next level.

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