Comments on: Chitika’s Response to Stats Outage

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:16:08 +0000

Heh, I’ve had a similar email from Amazon.com stating that I wasn’t using their code – what they probably meant is that no-one had clicked. I’ve given up on Amazon, I get barely any revenue from them.

My point is that it’s not just the new guys that don’t always appear to know exactly what’s going on. I’m pretty impressed with Chitika so far. They’re measuring up favourably with AdSense though I probably haven’t provided their systems enough clickthroughs to really target ads properly – I still get some weird ones even on the sites I am using their contextual system. Then again, AdSense still does that.

By: Laptopical

Laptopical — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:51:03 +0000

“…..Something like taking their revenue from their best day in the month or something like that…..”

The stats outage came at a bad time for Chitika, just at a time when the eminimall name was buzzing on webmaster boards across the web.

Some Adsense publishers complained of indifferent targeting, falling CTR rates and smart pricing woes, particularly at the start of october. Because of this many were ready to give another contextual ad network a shot. Unfortunately for Chitika, the lost statistics issue put some off.

However, to offer publishers sizeable compensation for the lost revenue is an excellent resolution. We’ll continue to recommend Chitika eminimalls to our contacts, and are pleased to be part of the beta test.

By: C Montoya

C Montoya — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:55:41 +0000

Whoops, actually it was another entry. No matter.

By: C Montoya

C Montoya — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:55:14 +0000

Wow, thanks for this advice! I signed up for Chitika as soon as I read this entry!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:12:17 +0000

I’LL SUE!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:03:21 +0000

It is a beta test people!

By: Swade

Swade — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:55:57 +0000

I got the same email as Tim today. Didn’t bother me, I just replied and told them I am using it and blah blah blah. What was interesting about the email was that it had a link to a “See what other bloggers have to say….” section and guess who’s blog was linked?

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:45:20 +0000

Oops, sorry, in point 2, they mean STATS and not REVENUE.

Enrique

By: Enrqiue

Enrqiue — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:43:47 +0000

Sorry, but I didn’t understand the second point. How will they tell who’s running a test and who is not?
I’m serving chitika 50%-50% with adsense in 90% of my site (which receives 20.000 page views daily) as a test of conversion and not as a test of the product. I tested it the first day and it worked great.
I decided to let my Adsense earning go down in favor of finding the correct percentage of serving. So it is not fair not to be paid for october 7 and half of october 8. So, how are they deciding what is a test and what is not?

Enrique

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By: Tim Flight

Tim Flight — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:45:18 +0000

Unfortunately I picked October 7 as a grand experiment to place all of my ads on one site with Chitika’s eminimalls. (Note to self, don’t place all eggs (or ads) in one basket.) So I got an extra dose of bad luck there. :( But there are other things about Chitika that are bothering me.

I’ve sent them five support emails over the past two weeks and none of them have been responded to. I’ve tried from two different email addresses and I (and my ISP) don’t have any spam blockers that would have prevented their email reaching me.

Then today I received an email from them (but not in response to my support questions) saying “I wanted to follow up since I have noticed that you are not yet using our code”…. which isn’t correct either as I have impressions and revenue going back to September 26.

Hopefully things will turn around and I’ll be as happy with them as everyone else seems to be.

By: mottebonk

mottebonk — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:45:05 +0000

Heh! I love this company. They could have made hundreds of excuses. Instead they come up with a concept called “very fair”. From the looks of it, I think I am going to be making more money on the 7th than expected. Cheers!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:43:55 +0000

Thanks for passing that on. I was just waiting to see what would come of the outage and an explanation of the compensation. Over all I am happy with the mini malls I think it will become a really great product.