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Chitika Audited Revenue Once Again Disappointing To Publishers


It seems every month Chitika disappoints publishers with their audited revenue. Once again they haven't failed to disappoint with their latest payments for January 2006. Here are a few publishers results. Eric Giguere ... the audited eMiniMalls revenue for January...

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Chitika November And December Audits Released


My question for Chitika is that if they aren't going to pay for clicks outside the US why don't they allow an alternate URL that is displayed when a user is fetching the ad from outside the US? This would...

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Chitika eMiniMalls Screws Publishers Again!


In a move to further alienate publishers from using their advertising model ever again, Chitika eMiniMalls has broken their own Terms of Service and announced that payments for November will not be ready until mid January. Chitika runs on a...

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Chitika Results Disappointing For Many Site Owners


Chitika has already received the wrath of site owners for Chitika's audit last month that took up to 90% of some publishers revenue. The bad news continues to pour in as shown on this SitePoint Forum post. Pathetic Chitika Performance...

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Chitika Publishers Furious Over Revenue Audit That Has Taken Up To 90% Of Their Revenue


Chitika implemented a revenue audit to invalidate clicks it calls "curiosity clicks" that I mentioned here on Nov 17,2005. Unfortunately for some publishers -- and most it seems -- upon checking their month ending stats some have seen upwards of...

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Chitika eMiniMalls UK Launched


Chitika has announced that it has launched the UK version of eMiniMalls and that future versions are in the works. They are using GEO targeting to display the products. You will see products depending on where they detect you are...

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Chitika Attacks Click Fraud, Warns Publisher Revenue Will Be Down


While I'm not currently accepted by Chitika, I'm still covering them. It seems they've been having some trouble with click fraud or as they call it "curiosity clicks" and will now be cracking down on it. They also warn that...

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Chitika eMiniMalls Application Rejection Update - Ticket Open Or Closed?


Well Chitika sent me an email regarding the entries on Chitika Rejecting my application other sites rejected by Chitika and follow ups to Chitika that I've made. They sent me an email with a ticket they had opened on my...

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Chitkia eMiniMalls Finally Got Back To Me


After sending an email to Chitika about being rejected from their program I received an explanatory email from their customer support where they admit that their review system is flawed due to lack of staffing. While they didn't say this...

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Other Sites Rejected By Chitika


I did a little hunting around after being rejected by Chitika. Here's someone at Digital-Point (his blog posting here) Today, I got my rejection notice from Chitika. No reason was given. I sent them an email asking if there was...

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I Was Rejected By Chitika eMiniMalls (Update 2, Email Sent, Email Bounced)


Wow! I just received an email from Chitika Customer Service that I was rejected for inclusion in their program. While I can't copy and paste the email verbatim -- they're probably so anal about getting bad press that they put...

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I Signed Up For Chitika eMiniMalls Today


I signed up for Chitika eMiniMalls today. It seems that it takes 2-3 days for your site to be approved. I've heard other website owners have had some good results and am anxious to see how it works out. I'll...

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