guess I don;t rate…but still – I would like an email that says: “Sorry, try again later.”

Vic

http://www.chitikanews.com/chitika-context-ad-rumors.htm

It would be nice though – but it appears that this Rumor is false.

Sorry folks!

1. Publishers have had a vast range experiences with Chitika as I showed on my Poll on the topic which found that while many had not made much that some (similar proportions to the spread of Adsense publishers) had made good money.

2. ‘ripped off’ is a pretty strong term – here in Australia it verges on meaning ’stealing’ or doing something illegal/underhanded. While some publisher do feel this strongly about Chitika I’m yet to see anyone with any evidence that Chitika has done anything illegal etc. I agree that they have made some serious mistakes in their starting up and beta testing but I would also say that in general they’ve been pretty good with communicating what they are doing and why.

3. ‘you’ve been helping them’ – I’ve said this for the record on a number of occassions. I have no affiliations with Chitika in any way outside of being a publisher with them. Chitika’s ads have performed very well for me on my blogs (they are ideally suited to them in terms of topic and design) and as a result I’ve talked about them from this perspective. I also make good money from Adsense and have spoken about them on many occassions in a positive way. This is a blog about making money from blogs – I make money from Chitika and share my experiences.

If you read the posts I’ve written about them you’ll find numerous instances of me saying to be careful, recommending what type of blogs it works best on, sharing the things I think they could improve, announcing the problems that they are having. I’ve never said it’s ‘the answer’ to every blog. I’ve given many tips on how to improve it’s performance but always tried to keep my positive reviews of them clearly about my blogs and suggest that people try it for themselves.

If you can find a place where I’ve helped Chitika rip someone off I’d like to see that.

Chitika publishers are all over 18 as far as I know – they are adults and should take a little of their own responsibility for their actions and decisions.

I’m sorry if you’re disappointed with Chitika Paul, I’m sorry if I was the one that introduced you to them – but I’ve tried to be true to my experience of them in what I’ve said and don’t think I can be held responsible for them not living up to any expectations you might have had of them.

Considering their track record, I seriously doubt that anyone could make more money with their textual ads when compared to Google and Yahoo.

brem – no idea on the terms of these particular ads. The link I have given above is the first I heard of them relaunching text ads and I can’t find anything about it on their site. Must be testing it with a small group of publishers or something.

Adam – sorry to hear that. seems eMiniMalls works well for some and not so well for others. I guess like all ad systems its about giving things a go and seeing what does and doesn’t work and then going hard with what does.