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This is quite easy to set up. Just go to Blogger.com and click the giant
"Create your own blog now" button. You'll create a username and password, name
your blog, and choose a template. This should take you all of about 5 minutes.
Once you have your blog set up, you need to sign
up with Chitika. You need a running web site to get approved, so post a couple
of short items to your blog before applying. It will take you about 5 minutes to
fill out their application, and you'll be approved in the next day or so. Note
that you don't actually have to be approved to continue on to the next step. You
can insert the eMiniMalls code onto your web site, you just won't make any money
until you're approved.
Follow
'this link' signing up with Chitika.
Now that you're all set up, you need to insert
the Chitika code into your blog. Chitika will send you instructions on how to
generate the HTML code to create eMiniMalls on your site.
The javascript code looks fairly scary, but you
don't have to worry much about it. You can customize the size and colors on the
Chitika web site, without needing to touch the code yourself.
Once you have the eMiniMall looking the way you
want it, it's time to insert it into your Blogger template. Blogger,
unfortunately, doesn't allow javascript inside individual posts, so you can't
customize the products to each post. Actually there is a way to do it, but I'll
write more about that a bit later. For now, we'll just insert the same eMiniMall
code before each post. Note that this doesn't mean the same product will be
shown over and over again. The code will pick a random product from the list for
each eMiniMall.
Log in to your Blogger account, and select your
blog from your "dashboard" screen. Click the "Template" tab at the top of the
next page. Click "Edit Current" if it's not selected for you already. Scroll
down, probably about two thirds of the way, until you find the Blogger tag. This
is where the actual posts are in the template. Scroll down just a bit more, and
you'll find a tag that looks like this: $BlogItemBody$. This is where the body
of each post is inserted. Just put your eMiniMall code directly above (or below
if you prefer) this tag. Click "Preview" to see what it will look like. You may
find you need a couple of < br > tags before or after the eMiniMall code to
separate it from the post body.
Once you have the preview looking roughly the
way you want it, click "Save Template Changes". Click the little "Republish"
button to republish your blog to the live site. That's it, you're now set to
start making money from Chitika clicks on your site. You'll find that on
average, Chitika pays more per click than Google does for AdSense. Using both is
even better. Just remember that you need content in order to get people to come
to your blog in the first place.
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