Seriously? Right after Shoemoney and Dillsmack sold the business off everything dumped off. I was rolling pretty well with it too. I had a great increase in sales and everything was looking great. Then the sale went through and as soon as the text-link-ads.com guys picked it up it just turned into a big pile.

Now I’m not trying to call out the guys at TLA, because they know how to make a great product. My first guess is that they decided they wanted to turn AuctionAds into ShoppingAds and just switch the whole model over. In the process things got screwed up and everyone started losing money. AuctionAds works on a community system too. So the fewer people that use it, the fewer you make on it. Also another contributing factor could be that every reader you normally get is now blind to those ads and now they aren’t as inclined to bid on anything. So many questions…. I have taken them down from all of my sites for the time being. If I hear they are really pulling it together again, I’ll jump on it.

So I thought I would use Chitika Minimall on some of my websites and see if I can put together some side income on them. I havent used Chitika before, nor have I read anything about them. It will be an unbiased opinion. I’m interested to see how well their products will relate to my users. Pretty soon I’ll give you an update on how the progress is coming along and what I think of their program.

First Edit: Overall I like the navigation of the site and ease of setting up your ad blocks. Took me less than 5 minutes to log in find the ad I wanted to use, customize it and then toss it on one of my sites. I’ll give it a week or so before I pass judgement on well it will do for me. We’ll see.

Heres my Referral Link if you want to signup under me: Chitika MiniMall