Targeting eMiniMalls and TTZ Media To Make Money from internal search traffic
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- Do you own a blog related to products, like, technology, hardware blog?
- Not satisfied with Adsense for Search?
Then, you can try to monetize your blog’s search results with Chitika eMiniMalls, TTZ Media or ShoppingAds(previously known as AuctionAds) and target those ads according to the search results. Example, if someone will search “mobiles” it will show ads of products related to mobiles.
Targeting Chitika eMiniMalls
1. Sign in to your Chitika account, click the eMiniMalls tab, and now generate your code.
2. Open your theme’s search file(it’s search.php most of the time) and find the following line:
<h2>Search Results<h2>
3. Paste your Chitika eMiniMalls code underneath the line.
4. Change the following lines in your eMiniMalls code.
var ch_queries = new Array( );
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
if ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) {
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];
}
to
var ch_queries = new Array("<?php echo wp_specialchars($s); ?>");
Save the search results file. Now if you’ll search anything, you’ll see ads of related products.
Targeting TTZ Media
1. Login to your TTZ Media account, generate code.
2. Paste the code where you want it on your theme’s search file.
3. Change the following lines in the change you generated.
var keyword= "digital camera, gps, ipod, mp3 players, plasma tv, camcorders, dvd players";
to
var keyword= "<?php echo wp_specialchars($s); ?>";
Targeting ShoppingAds
1. Login to your ShoppingAds account.
2. Generate code and paste it where you want it on your theme’s search file.
3. Change the following lines.
shoppingads_ad_kw = "most popular";
to
shoppingads_ad_kw = "<?php echo wp_specialchars($s); ?>";
After monetizing your blog, try searching for anything like - “ipod” and it should display ads related to iPod. Good luck with monetizing your blog. 
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Nice post. I would interested to know if anyone has used any of those services. If so, how do they compare to Google Adsense (based on revenue)?
I use Google Adsense right now and am doing pretty good, so I would like to know if other people are seeing better results.
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