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Chitika just announced that they are eliminating "curiosity clicks" from our revenues. Great. Who gets to decide what differentiates a "curiosity click" from an advertiser whose site just sucks and can't convert? Not us, that's for sure.
I spent probably a hundred hours putting up highly targeted ads on most of my pages. CTR and revenues were building nicely, then this. Whack! CTR cut in half, revenues by more than that. And just a casual blog post from them to announce it. Ho hum. Just another scam. Back to YPN!
We want audits :)
I prefer getting money without audits, but that's just me :-)
The whole Chitika site is running under the postnuke cms once you log in...
Yikes... hadn't noticed. Good luck with that Chitika, hope you have a good backup.
Perhaps it's wise to backup your chitika stats, by taking screenshots. I hear Postnuke is not the tightest cms ever devised :(
This CMS seems a little light weight, but then I hear Google even designed their own logo when they started up, and look where they are now.
The ads will never be seen on any of my sites ever again.
I hope it shows up sometime today or at the very extremely least - tomorrow, as the funds are being wired to my PayPal account.
It's rediculous to have to wait over a month before even knowing what you actually made the month before.
Chitika, if you're reading - you could really use a representative on some of these webmaster forums. Your PR is going to crap, and fast.
I am mailing them 3 days about audits... and in every mail they say:
"You should be able to see your audited reports now. If you are having trouble with this please let me know."
Always same thing... but no audits!
SUCKERS!
They must mean September... I sure as heck don't have audited data for October.
And they continue making fool out of me. Suckers, again!
I'm thinking the delay in audited data, is to do with the crash they had on october 7th. Perhaps it is taking longer to recalculate the statistics because of that?
This is a rough paraphrase of an email I got today from Chit support in answer to my inquiry over the missing audits. So much for their net-30 terms promise..
We are experiencing a delay in audits due to the holiday season, we thank you for your patience! We are working on this to complete them very soon! Payments will then follow.
Last month it was even quicker than that, but it looks like they have some capacity problems because a huge number of new publishers entered the program in October.
<snicker> Publisher fallout
No word yet from Paypal as to any actual payment from Chit.
I'm rather taken aback that your income has been reduced between 28-48%! That's a lot! If that's what Chitika is planning to cut back on me, I'n dropping them because my Google clicks have gone down since impletmenting Chitika.
Do you really have that many fraudulent clicks? If you'd care to share, I'd like to know about how many people visit your site each month. I think all this is nuts!
But beyond that the real problem is the time it takes to set up and configure the keywords, as opposed to a contextual system. We're going to keep an eye on Chitika because we think there's a lot of upside, but we're also going to cut impressions by about 90%.
Bye, Bye, Chitika!
