Comments on: Chitika eMiniMall Audit Complete

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:15:46 +0000

The channels feature would be what I love to see. I’m currently running Chitika on 3 sites and I have no idea which ad is doing well!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:19:01 +0000

90% of my traffic comes from US..

By: hagrin

hagrin — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:55:20 +0000

Well, Asian traffic is dropped because that’s exactly what their ToS states:

http://chitika.com/blog/index.php?p=17

“We currently accept traffic from the US, Canada, Western Europe and Australia. As we add more products for other countries we will expand our coverage.”

By: Motte Bonk

Motte Bonk — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:04:03 +0000

My audited numbers are also about 10% less than unaudited (and I make a lot — 4 figure check for Sept). From looking at my logs, it co-relates to the approximate traffic I get from Asia.

If your traffic is primarily from Asia, I would advice you to use some form of geo-targeting like Maxmind. I know a friend who complained that his audited numbers were down 70% but he gets majority of his traffic from Malaysia and Vietnam.

If people haven’t figured it yet, if:
1) you have a blog or website about products or gadgets and
2) your traffic is primarily from US

you could be doing $8 effective CPM like me. Cha ching !

By: Miha

Miha — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:35:30 +0000

My audited earnings are the same as unaudited, but I was using eMiniMals only for 7 days in September. ;-)

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:30:27 +0000

I’d love to be able to automatically select through the interface the keywords of ads showing on my site rather than having to guess keywords and include them in the code.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:37:29 +0000

Just like Tom I’m a bit disappointed. I hoped it would be less than 10 percent but my audited September figures are almost 30 percent lower than the unaudited ones :(

By: Dale Estes

Dale Estes — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:24:08 +0000

I have been only using them about a week and have made about 3.00 so I am happy.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:08:32 +0000

auditing isn’t just your own clicks. It is dependant upon many factors including where in the world your readers are (their advertisers don’t allow Asian clicks unfortunately), how close together in time that your readers click ads etc.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:57:03 +0000

..my audited earning is now around 27% less than my unaudited earnings! and I never ever clicked on my ad..not even one.. This is a bit dissapointing.. :( BTW, this is my first audited earning..hope getting much better next month..

By: Ozgression

Ozgression — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:49:49 +0000

Have you emailed chitika with this wishlist? The first two are a must if they want to be taken seriously in future.