I saw so many banning news from chitika all over... http://fraudchitika.blogspot.com/ http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=330906 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=47364 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=47376 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=44528 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=47544 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=47364 Really whats going on...? What do u you think ...?
First they Cancel Fraudelent Clicks - Ok Now They Cancel Fraudelent Traffic And BAN the Publishers. This is not Good
Chitika isn't fraud. Many people have been banned from AdSense too, does this mean AdSense is fraud too? Chitika even takes time to work on New Year's Eve..
Looking into this some more, here's another link that should have been included on the top listing of links: http://www.jensense.com/archives/chitika_eminimalls/index.html Ties in with the mention of audits in the previous post (by Zygoot).
ugh...sorry this is the biggest load of crap i've heard. adsense audits your clicks too, just before you see them in your stats. the only way to get banned from chitika if you're a flat out moron.
Ouch ... Seriously, I don't have enough information, and I'm more likely than not to believe you, but what then is your take on the bannings? and the long audit process? Put another way, what does Chitika need to learn about audits that G has already known from almost the beginning?
Chitika has been OK for me. I wouldn't call them a fraud at all-- they made their payments to me on time. My only complaint is still with the cpc s going way down-- during the big push for Chitika, they were alot higher--- still though, the positives are this, especially for small publishers or those just looking to cover a bill or two a month--- the minimum to payout is 10 bucks! So heck, if you can make a buck or 3 a day, it might pay part of a cable bill or cell phone that month-- or buy you some beer! Heh. Of course, I'd like to see it grow. I love the freedom of being able to pick my own products to show off.
they just used a different, albeit stupid system. where they showed you the raw stats, and then audited at the end of the month. it means less resources used on their part on a day to day basis. they already have issues on generating raw stats more than once a day, imagined if they had to run their fraudelent click algorithms at the same time as well. chitika is very lax about their TOS. you can modify the code to shit, put it on any site basically, even if it's just a few words of content and a bunch of ads. they have no reporting system unlike google. it's new, and you really do have to be quite an idiot to get yourself banned.
for those interested - there is some information on this on the chitika blog: http://chitika.com/blog/?p=31
??? Out of date and short, but otherwise interesting good links. SVZ: Sounds like they need to get cracking on their members then, as well as something they could get the community behind them with - after all, people are seeing the impact on their revenues. I don't know, all this has given me another reason to not use them.
As Per SVZ's Word... at this moment 16 morons here in DP...(include me) I ask SVZ to learn how to use words in public forums. Didn't your mother teach this?
Sorry about the blatant plug, but for those interested, I have been posting quite a bit about the seeming decline of Chitika on my feedbuzzard site. CPCs are crashing