Chitika Audits - A Thing of the Past?

November 21st, 2008

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Posted in: Chitika | Premium, Front Page News, Inside Chitika, PPC Ad Units, Payments

Many publishers have expressed frustration with our “audits” process (at the end of the month, we discount the invalid clicks from reports - you can read more about this here.)

Well we have good news - with our new Chitika | Premium ads, audits are pretty much a thing of the past! Chitika | Premium is set up differently than our old eMiniMall/MPU units, and audits on Premium units are usually less than 1% of total earnings.

In most cases, there are zero audits on Chitika | Premium ads - meaning that “what you see is what you get” from your daily reports.

If you have not tried Chitika | Premium yet, you can grab your code here, or to see more about how Chitika | Premium works you can check out this quick video.

About the Author: Ryan Travis is the Director of Client Services at Chitika. Aside from planning/executing major CRM initiatives, he loves to work one-on-one with publishers to make sure that Chitika rocks on their sites.

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14 Responses to “ Chitika Audits - A Thing of the Past? ”

Josh Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Good to hear! I luv Chitika.
Popular Wealth Says:
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 am
This is my first month using Chitika Premium and I’m evaluating it carefully and ramping up slowly. So far I have to say that I am 100% satisfied with the results. None of my other income sources have suffered, it’s like finding lost money!
Earn Blogger Says:
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:59 am
I just want to say that Chitika | Premium is far ahead of it’s competitors.
Brian Gardner Says:
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 am
I have several clients running Chitika Ads. I’m not overly impressed with the avant-guarde premium ads because they are difficult to override. They are not topic or site specific and have no draw for niche markets that need targeted links to like products.

What’s more, the new implementations are slow. The programming (or Chitika’s delivery/peering system) is way too slow because they have allowed their programmers to bloat the code. Chitika ads are the LAST to load on virtually every site we manage (and we’re putting out a terrabyte of bandwidth ourselves just to deliver site information fast and efficiently).

In other words, they time out. It’s a classic case of Bleeding Edge, whereby it’s cool but doesn’t show up on your page very often.

The new Chitika code is trying to pick up cookies from Google, Amazon and every other major marketer out there. In doing so, they have become co-dependent upon everybody else BEFORE they deliver their ads.

While that may pay great for stockholders and employees, it doesn’t do anything for my client’s income nor does it increase my own revenue. Eventually, it won’t increase Chitika’s either since their market share will fall as a result. So put a leash on the propeller-heads.
Chitika Audits is same as Chitika Income | Calcutta Seo:Search Engine Optimization Says:
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:21 am
[...] Read the official Chitika Announcement “Well we have good news - with our new Chitika | Premium ads, audits are pretty much a thing of the past! Chitika | Premium is set up differently than our old eMiniMall/MPU units, and audits on Premium units are usually less than 1% of total earnings.” - as Per Chitika Blog. [...]
Alfie Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 7:48 am
This is really a good news. Cheers. :)
geekTips Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
At last, thanks Chitika.
Chitika - A Good Way To Make Money With Your Blog? | David Risley dot com Says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
[...] used to find your website. So, it is super-well targeted. And as of just a few days ago, they are no longer auditing traffic using these types of ads. The auditing process has been a source of frustration for publishers [...]
jame Says:
December 5th, 2008 at 8:52 am
What about the other chitika products like chitika linx?

Audits on Premium units are usually less than 1% of total earnings

What about audit on chitika linx?
Ryan Says:
December 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am
@jame - Linx and other older Chitika products are still audited in the same manner as before, because of the system that they are setup on.

You can read more about that here: https://chitika.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=119
Todd Says:
December 9th, 2008 at 11:24 am
This does not seem to be true for me. Everyday my number drop from original earnings, for instance yesterday, my earnings were almost exactly half of my unaudited results. Why is this?
jame Says:
December 9th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Surprisingly, Linx performs much better in my blog than this Premium. Not only for the CTR, but also for the pay per click.

I’ve got low CTR for the Premium though I have placed it above the fold, and the earning per click is now lower than Linx. At first Premium gave me around 0.23 per click, now it drops from 0.03 - 0.09 per click.

So, I love Linx than Premium simply because of its performance on my blog. I’ve read so many bad things about your audit system in DigitalPoint forums and I’m afraid my earning from Linx will also get high cut as well.

I guess this is what makes many bloggers decide to replace their Linx with Infolinks.

Just my two cents so you can get better in the future, especially in your audit system:)
Ryan Says:
December 9th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
@Todd - I’m not sure what you are referring to - audited data for this month is not available yet so you aren’t able to see it. I assure you that if you are using our Premium ads, your audits will be less than 1%.

@Jame - First, I’m glad to hear Linx works well for you. For most users that get good search traffic, Premium will certainly be their best performer. It depends very much on where you have it placed, and of course what kind of traffic you get. If you want to send me a link to your site, I can give you some suggestions on how to get Premium working better for you (send to ryan [at] chitika [dot] com).

Second - you mention that you have read bad things from DP so you are going to switch to Infolinks. Have you actually seen the audits for yourself yet? I would recommend at least seeing for yourself before just switching to another company - you can’t always believe everything that you read ;) Linx audits are actually quite similar to Premium audits now.
jame Says:
December 9th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
My traffic is 90.51% from search engines and it’s been a few days since I put Premium next to the first paragraph of every single post in my blog.

I’ve even tried to place it in the middle of post, but the CTR was still the same. It’s around 2-3 click for 200-300 impressions. As for Linx, I can get up to 13 clicks/day with the same amount of impression and each click has higher earning per click than Premium’s.

I’m worried about the bad things I’ve heard, but I’m not a person who just believe what others say before I try it myself, so I don’t plan to move to Infolinks nor Echotopic.

Nice to hear you say that “Linx audits are actually quite similar to Premium audits now”.
I’ve got very good click with Linx since I put in my main blog. If the audit for the next month is just like what you say here, I won’t hesitate anymore to promote your program to my associates and friends:)