Shopzilla Publisher Program
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Shopzilla is an ad network (currently in beta) that pays per click (CPC). I have been using it since last month and it has done really well on my product related site - DigitGeek.
I have tried many ad networks on DigitGeek like AdSense, Kontera, , TTZ Media, Chitika and WidgetBucks and none have done as good as Shopzilla. It has to be because Shopzilla has clickable images on their ads which gets it more clicks.
Both Chitika eMinimalls and TTZ Media used to have clickable images, but stopped it later. They even made their ads display only for some countries. I hope Shopzilla wont do this in the future as it can reduce the Click Thru Rate a lot.
As long as they don’t do it, Shopzilla will be a good alternative to programs like Chitika’s eMiniMalls, TTZ Media and WidgetBucks.
They offer different content types like ‘Top Search Results’, ‘Custom Text Links’, ‘Search Boxes’, “Banners’, ‘Product Pods’, and ‘Text links’.
Shopzilla has a similar feature to the AdSense channels called Placement IDs which are helpful to find out which ads are performing the best.
Screenshots
‘Top Search Results’ ad: 336×280
Banner: 468×60
Watch this video:
You can watch the above video in higher quality .
Here’s how you can get Shopzilla to display ads related to the posts on WordPress blogs (thanks Tim):
For WordPress users, you can automatically use the Page Title as the keyword (or “Search For” as they call it) for Shopzilla ads. These are for the ‘Top Search Results’ ad type. Create the Top Search Results asset using just the letter “a” in the “Search For” field as the keyword. Pick the banner size, set your colors, etc, and then get the HTML code. Look in the HTML code for the following:
/keyword-a/
Replace that with this:
/keyword-/
That code should take the title of the WordPress post and use it as the keyword for the ad unit.
Shopzilla will perform best on product related sites, so if you own one make sure to register for Shopzilla.
They currently do not accept everyone, but you can register and see if they accept you. DigitGeek was accepted in a few hours.
Register for Shopzilla.
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 | Category: Make Money Online |
Christopher Calvi
August 15, 2008 at 10:02 pm
John,
Thanks for the write-up on the Shopzilla Publisher Program. I’m glad to hear it has been working out well for you.
Let us know if you have any problems/questions going forward!
Sincerely,
Chris
April
August 16, 2008 at 12:14 am
Thanks for the tip on Shopzilla! I have been a member of this program for a while, but have not really done much with it. I’ll be looking at it again….For more tips on making extra money, check out http://www.momswallet.com.
Warning
August 16, 2008 at 8:06 am
Be warned, Shopzilla is a flaky program. We have a had terrible experience with them, money owed has not been paid and emails have been ignored so far.
Tech Magazine
August 18, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Sounds like a great program i will try soon.
Make Money Online From Home
August 25, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I have heard of shopzilla but not tried them yet - Glad you are having a good experience - Did you get paid yet? - Could you do an update to let us know.
Thanks
Allen
August 27, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Great program, but sale rate is very poor compare to chitika
September 1, 2008 at 5:07 am
Shopzilla is not really a CPC program, is more like an affiliate program, they only pay you when a visitor either buy or click an sponsor link on their bizrate site. I use shopzilla for a few days it generated more than a hundred clicks but made only a few bucks. they said users need to generate a type of income on their site in order to pay all the clicks.
their game is like adsense Arbitrage, the different is that they only pay you when they make more money. the irony is that their bizrate landing page only list a few products and then all of the content is just sponsor links, how they want sophisticated clicks to convert when they scream upon landing, you’ve been fooled.
stay away from this program unless you want to clutter your site with ads and make just a few bucks from hundreds on clicks.
pinoy jobs
September 6, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Looks promising! hope its good.
chris
September 13, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I really like your homepage and came back several times.
If you are interested to make a new project where you need an experienced coder, let me know: http://www.christian-albert-mueller.com .. I was living 5 years in sinai-egypt for a nonprofit bedouine project. Now starting in the blogworld, to get some new friends and projects. all the best. chris
TechNald
November 30, 2008 at 10:09 pm
i’m gonna try this one!
Narendra.s.v
February 17, 2009 at 8:22 am
Hi John
Its been long time since you put the last post. Please update your blog.
I am looking forward to the next post.