Drawing on the Web

Chitika has a new advertising product for web site publishers to use. I just found out about it recently and wanted to become a beta tester — but, even better, it’s been released to eMiniMalls publishers for use on their sites. It’s called ShopCloud$, and it is a neat, new interactive tool for Chitika affiliate advertisers.

ShopCloud$ is an advertising system based on keyword “tags.” When a visitor clicks on a keyword, they are taken to a related set of merchant listings.

This is what a ShopCloud$ looks like:

It’s easy to pick from the many pre-defined sets of keywords. Want keywords that are PC Notebook related, pick the Category Hint “PC Laptops.” In addition to the predefined sets for specific categories of words,there’s another called “Seasonal Specials” for popular items.

Of course, we also have plenty of control over the colors used in the ads we display, so we can blend them into our sites.

The great thing about Chitika eMiniMalls (their other advertising system) is that, as publishers, we can define our own keywords for the ads. Well, we can do that for ShopCloud$, too!

I’m using them on my Computer for Christmas site to show tagged clouds for desktop computers, notebook computers, graphics cards, sound cards and software.

Sign up to become a Chitika publisher here