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You'll only get paid for the first click the visitor makes but I guarantee you a 20% CTR per visitor.
Chitika needs the business from cheesed off webmasters. Google needs the lesson in customer service.
I've checked out my numbers and unfortunately the audited earnings are quite a lot lower than the unaudited ones :-(
Their list of unwanted countries is lengthy and they will audit out clicks from there. These aren't countries considered fraudulent, as far as I can tell its countries their merchants might not deliver to.
So I mostly obtained traffic from the US and Canada.
I'm also expecting multiple clicks to be audited out. I'm pretty sure some people arrive and click on every picture.
Soon we should be getting daily audits. That would be so handy.
very, very dissapointing.. :( :(
Anyone else has the same experience?
I do wish they would implement some built in geotargeting like adsense though. If a users IP is from a known "clicks don't count country" I'd prefer that it didn't serve them an ad or displayed an alternate of my choice.
Freq---
I'd be most interested in hearing more results from the audit. I'm holding off on running Chitika's ads until I'm satisfied the company and business model are for real.
CTR and eCPM
On the sites that I'm running both Adsense and eMiniMalls, my Adsense CTR did not decrease from historic levels. I did pickup additional clicks from eMiniMalls, so my overall page CTR and eCPM increased, which means revenue increased.
Note:My CTR did not decrease when Chitika removed the links on the product images.
EPC
EPC for AdSense and eMiniMalls for my niches are roughly the same.
Ad Inventory
The content on my sites happens to be a very good match for Chitika's inventory. Since I'm running AdSense, I run Chitika in non-contextual mode and provide them with relevant keywords for my pages. I can tweak the keywords to get the desired results.
Appearance
Chitika provides a decent level of control over the appearance of the ads. You can set sizes, colors, hide tabs and set which tab is active on load.
Zygoot and Alex, around percentages are you guys talking about?
It's still better than my AdSense earnings but I was disappointed that the audit took such a large share. I thought it would have been 5 to 10 percent at most.
Oh, Well..I just put my adsense back to its sweet spot
Their list of unwanted countries is lengthy and they will audit out clicks from there.
It should improve now the pictures are no longer clickable.
Anyone notice lower CTR's since pics are not linked?
It exists only in their auditing software far as I can tell. I know it bizarrely includes all of the far east.
I reckon I've pestered them enough with questions this week, but contact them and ask, then post it if you can get an official list. Until I get a complete breakdown of countries I'm restricting Chitika to traffic from the US and Canada.
About two days ago I sent them a inquiry about what countries in Western Europe are supported for clicks, no response still...
Yes, my CTR dropped a few percent because of that :(
One day #*$!$, second day xx$, third day x$...
Crazy!
I think in many ways Chitika is still a beta product. They know full well channel and auditing data is insufficient and a large part of the world isn't covered. I don't care. I can live with it. The alternative is Google and I hate Google. I have Battered Webmaster Syndrome from Google.
I've never seen a product whose time has come so well as Chitika's, and I'd rather they rolled it out right now with all its faults than waited and left me to Google's mercies.
How you guys applied there.
I fillup a form there to signup but never received the confirmation email.
email to their support was never answered.
(I guess this has nothing to do with adsense forum but as you guys already discussing Chitika ,I though It can be a better place to ask)
The official Chitika blog [chitika.com...] mentions "US, Canada, Western Europe and Australia", previously they have revealed that traffic from UK & France is accepted.
About two days ago I sent them a inquiry about what countries in Western Europe are supported for clicks, no response still...
I think Uk and france comes in Western Europe.not so?
Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark
United Kingdom and Ireland
Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg
Germany, France, Monaco and Malta
Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria
Italy, San Marino, Vatican City
Spain, Andorra, Portugal and Gibraltar
Until today, I thought San Marino was somewhere near Jamaica. And I have to wonder about the ex soviet countries such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Perhaps someome wants to summon a Chitika rep to this thread?
Until today, I thought San Marino was somewhere near Jamaica.
Errr...are you jesting? It's in central Italy!
Third smallest state in Europe and claims to be the world's oldest republic...there's even a F1 Grand Prix named after it. Population about 29,000...
AT,BE,DK,GB,UK,FI,FR,DE,IS,IE,IT,LI,LU,NL,NO,PT,ES,SE,CH,GL,GR,AD,CA,US,AU
I'm not sure about Turkey (TR), Malta (MT) and Cyprus (CY).
If San Marino is famous for driving round and round in cars to see how fast they can go while not getting anywhere, that would explain why I never heard of it :)
Geography, sport and diplomacy aren't my strong points.
Battered Webmaster Syndrome from Google.
Someone should add this to Wikipedia. GBWS, Google Battered Webmaster Syndrome.
