Chitika, Chitika, Chitika! I have not seen this much buzz on the forums about a new affiliate program or contextual advertising program since Google Adsense hit the scene. Reports that I have read are somewhat mixed but many affiliates are reporting higher revenues with Chitika. The primary recipients of the increased earning seem to be product related sites that are more tech oriented.

What are Chitika eMiniMalls and how can I profit?
eMiniMall are sort of a mini interactive merchandising kiosk, designed to inform, aggregate and display the most critical product information and relevant brands to browsing customers in a unobtrusive, helpful and relevant way. It brings comparison shopping to your users without leaving your site.

Here is an example of one ad size

Pretty cool isn’t it? If you scroll down on the right you will see an actual interactive ad for notebook computers. The one above is just a screenshot.

How much does the Chitika eMiniMalls contextual advertising program pay? Chitika will pay you 60% of their ad revenue.

How much does the Chitika Affiliate Program Pay?You can earn 10% of the revenue that webmasters you refer make over the next year.

How the heck did they come up with the “Chitika”? Chitika delivers contextual ads- in a snap! Chitika means “in a snap” in the South Indian language Telugu.

I’m very impressed with this program and think it offers affiliates and bloggers that have product sites a good revenue alternative to AdSense. Check out all the Chitika eMiniMalls info here.