Well, apparently Google is now allowing competing contextual ads on AdSense pages as long as the non-AdSense ads can't be confused (they don't look like) with the AdSense ad and link units. Of course, this doesn't give you carte blanche to sprinkle competing ad programs together, you have to follow the terms of all the programs — which means no YPN and AdSense ads together because Yahoo's policies still forbid competing ads.
If you're a Chitika eMiniMalls user, however, you may want to take this opportunity to switch you eMiniMalls units from non-contextual to contextual mode. Until now, Chitika publishers have been restricted in using the non-contextual mode (where you specify a list of keywords for Chitika to use in serving ad content) on pages with AdSense. Now you can just let the Chitika crawler analyze the page for you and figure out the right set of products to display.
I haven't switched my eMiniMalls over to contextual mode yet, so I can't say how well it works versus the non-contextual mode. Instead of completely removing the non-contextual parts of the JavaScript, I would just comment it out and seeing what happens. If the ads aren't as well targeted, switch back to non-contextual mode.
I don't use Chitika a whole lot, but it's on my guide to electronic fences for pet containment and does reasonably well there. I may look into Chitika more now that contextual mode is available, it was always a pain to generate a good keyword list…
P.S.: After over a year, my pet fence guide, an AdSense case study I did here on this blog, now ranks #2 on Google for “invisible fence”, #3 for “electronic fence” and #7 for “pet fence”. Cool! Hey, I also rank #3 for “adsense case study”, just behind Google's two entries… Hmm, how can I capitalize on that? Funny how these things can sneak up on you…
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