I’ve been using Chitika, and I have found out some secrets alot of you don’t know about. First off, when you see a blog that has Chitika on it anywhere, you probaly see the same ad over and over again. But what you don’t know is how to rotate them so their is a new ad every refresh. Before I tell you how to do it, I want to say that you have a greater chance of people clicking on your ads by rotating them. Any way, If you would like to set your Chitika ads with several keywords and make them not rotate every refresh, insert this into your code:

ch_queries = new Array('Keyword', 'Keyword1', 'Keyword2', 'Keyword3', 'Keyword4');

To make them rotate every refresh, the code would be:

var ch_queries = new Array('keyword1', 'keyword2', 'keyword3', 'keyword4', 'keyword5');
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];

Please note that you must do this If you have adsense, and chitika running on the same page. Their is a 50/50 chance that If google is Chitika, and Adsense on the same page and your keywords aren’t rotating, you will most likely be banned by Adsense. This means that you need to set your Chitika ads as “non-contextual” meaning you must rotate them.

Also, alot of you see that the “Product” tab is the default tab. You can change this by adding this code to your chitika code:

ch_default_tab = 'Best Deals';
When you add this code, “Best Deals” will be the default tab now.Also, If you didn’t know, channel support for Chitika is coming soon!:

“Also, we have a channel tracking feature coming soon. The reporting on that is not ready as yet, but you can add this line:

ch_sid = ‘ABCD’;

Replace ABCD with a meaningful channel name. Unlike Adsense, you get to define your own channel names. “

Update: Want to remove the search tab? Place ch_nosearch = 1; into your code .