A month ago, I introduced my newest test tube article on the Chitika Premium ad service. You can review the original post for the complete details but basically, I tested the Chitika Premium ads (they deliver extremely targeted ads and appear only to visitors arriving directly from a Search Engine (SE) query) to see what sort of results they would deliver. I placed the 468 X 60 ad at the top of my pages, just below the <H1> heading, as recommended by my Chitika account representative.

The results?

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My newest “test tube” article is going to feature a little test on Chitika’s premium ads (if you’re not up to speed on what I’m trying to accomplish with my “test tube” articles, please click here for a brief overview).

Chitika has been offering content publishers an Adsense-compatible ad solution (originally called “eminimalls”) since 2005. I’ve been using Chitika ads in the “eminimall” format on UltimateFatBurner.com pretty much since their inception.

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You may have seen a page peel (or peel away) ad already: a web page that has a corner edge waving gently, with a short message displayed (”Click Me”, “What’s Inside?” etc)  tempting you to move your mouse over to see what the heck is up.

This “mouse-over” action “peels back” or “peels away” the page to reveal a completely new message below, as if on a different sheet of paper (if you haven’t seen a page peel ad yet, you can do so here! You’ll need to use the Explorer browser though… this ad doesn’t appear to work in the FireFox browser).

As you can see, it’s a pretty funky effect!

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