Ouch.  Boy Chitika has certainly taken it on the chin this week.  I’m not going to revel in their woe.  …

Ouch.  Boy Chitika has certainly taken it on the chin this week.  I’m not going to revel in their woe.  …

Quite possibly, I do run multiple Chitika ad units.

While I understand that multiple clicks from the same person might be flagged as fraud, there are situations where this isn’t the case. For example, the same person may click multiple units that display different products as they browse a site.

If the timeout is too long (i.e longer thna the average site visit) then we are only getting paid for the first Chitika click per visitor?

I hope that isn’t the case.

Site your source…

1)They are not getting the conversion rates for there advertising like they did before chikita came along.
2)fraud is rampant as the chikta site has accepted all soughts of sites with low traffic and qualtiy and it is hard to determine if the clicks are fraud or not

3)The advertisers seem to be disallusioned with shopping.com for letting this happen and they are dashing to pricegrabber as we speak and thus revenues will be smaller.

I’m sick of reading FAQs on their blog that don’t actually offer any answers, but are filled with marketing and PR rubbish instead. They are off my sites till I hear something — anything — good about them, not from them.

This is the point that concerns me most.

My Chitika test site has 100% US traffic. There is no traffic from any other region. I monitor user behaviour closely as I undertake a lot of split/run testing to determine optimal layouts. In short, I know a lot about the quality of my traffic – where it comes from, and where it exits. If there are any bots, they are very, very clever. I think it’s safe to say there are no bots.

I’m down 30% on the October audit.

Needless to say, I’m concerned about the November audit.

For me, the figures do not add up.

I’ve hung back from experimenting with Chitika, the hip new contextual advertising program, so this info is all second hand, but a lot of people are reporting heavy earnings cuts over the past few days, as Chitica has begun auditing revenue: Jensense …

Here’s an example. I set this url as my adsense alternative, and then when no adsense is available, it shows a chitika, themed to the site (which is video iPod related):

http://www.podguide.tv/advertising/468×60.html

Take a look at the source. Should be easy to understand. One caveat – I’m not using these chitika as contextual, as that would break adsense TOS. If you do this the other way around, and use Google as an alternative to chitika, that MAY break Google TOS, because technically the Google ad itself would be on a non-content page, even though it only ever appears in the context of a content page. Also, it seems like Google would have nothing to contexualize against. So I’d be tempted to find a non-contextual system for chitika alternatives, such as a CPM ad network (hence my question a couple of comments above).

Another caveat: I’m no expert, so all the above could be wrong :)