Comments on: Chitika Publishers Report Increases in Earnings for October

By: Alden DoRosario

Alden DoRosario — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:38:19 +0000

Duncan said> even the affiliate program is 12 months, so most of my revenue therein is gone.
Heh .. your comment initiated this: http://chitika.com/blog/?p=79 ..

By: Make Money on Your Credit Cards

Make Money on Your Credit Cards — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:31:43 +0000

Anyone else see a nice increase with YPN?

By: Ma2T

Ma2T — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:57:21 +0000

Looks like it was just a one day increase, earnings for the 2nd seem to be about normal, no where near the 2.5X on the first.

By: joanne

joanne — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:44:52 +0000

i see a 15% increase, not much but i hope it will continue

By: Make Money on Your Credit Cards

Make Money on Your Credit Cards — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:48:28 +0000

My YPN has jumped considerably now after 2 days, bt Chitika still lower than what it used to be in months past.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:01:41 +0000

Its quite simple really, I work in a bookstore in Sydney, sales start increasing for christmas around october. Its a fairly common occurance in retail.

Chitika has only been around for a year, so this is probably the first time you are noticing it. I think chitika has allowed for “browser buying” (ie somebody that browses in a stall virtual or concrete). Traditionally much of e-commerce especially amazon has allowed for spercific purchases with maybe a few recommendations, but chitika’s intiface genuinely imitates that walk buy and see a gift experience that is common in real-world retail.

By: Robb D (RIMarkable)

Robb D (RIMarkable) — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:19:46 +0000

I noticed about a 50% increase in Chitika compared to about a 15% increase in AdSense. My traffic for the month increased only by 7% so both Chitika and AdSense increased at a rate faster than traffic.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:59:11 +0000

Chitika is still going… ok, I’ll be honest, I got a $16 USD payment for them this month, and credit there, I get somthing from them everymonth, but having said that even the affiliate program is 12 months, so most of my revenue therein is gone.

By: marcus

marcus — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:30:15 +0000

ours went up almost 50%…we’re not where we want to be as yet but this is a good sign

By: Make Money on Your Credit Cards

Make Money on Your Credit Cards — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:52:21 +0000

I just removed Chititka from most sites except a few since Chitika had over the past 6months dropped a few percent each month.

In fact it had dropped signifigantly for me the past 4 weeks, so they got the axe.

I have put them on a new site and an not excited yet about the amount they are paying… fingers crossed though for us all.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:50:52 +0000

John – thanks for that. I’ve actually been told that by three publishers now (ie that it’s probably a shopping.com thing) which makes a lot of sense.

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:32:44 +0000

Makes sense. It’s the holiday season and alot of people are looking in the spending spirit.

By: John Chow

John Chow — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:55:55 +0000

I’m not a Chitika publisher (well I am but I don’t use them) but I may have a explanation for you. Chitika uses Shopping.com and CNet to provide their ads. Shopping.com puts on a 30% CPC price increase on all clicks during Q4, which started yesterday. I am not sure about CNet but I suspect they do the same thing.

Enjoy the extra cash!

By: Ma2T

Ma2T — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:32:34 +0000

Interesting post. I noticed the same thing when I checked my stats this morning.

My chitika earnings for yesterday are up about 250%, a huge jump (all from the CPC value) I thought it might be a one off thing, but as it is the 1st of the month, im hoping it will be a change they are keeping.

Time to rip out the prime adsense units and replace them with chitika lol. (maybe if it keeps this way!)