"This report summarizes unaudited statistics for your account. Chitika audits the accounts on a monthly basis to filter fraudulent traffic. Payments are made based on audited traffic only. Please see our Frequently Asked Questions for more information." Don't forget we're looking at unaidited money right now. Has anyone experienced the audit yet? I wouldn't be suprised if like...half of the money dissapears for "fraudulent" clicks.
clicks from various asian countries are excluded. don't attach tag of "fraudlent" but these are excluded straight way.
I have not been in the program long enough to experience an audit yet. But from what I've read here and other forums, the average audit cut seems to be around 20-25%. If this is the case, I won't be continuing my use of their program. Since they are borderline not making enough for the space they occupy right now on my site.
Wait until they actually do the audit. You may have a better time, you just don't know yet. I wouldn't base any business decision like that on hearsay. Besides, think of the work involved in removing the Chitika from your sites? I just spent a few days getting rid of Adsense from my sites!
Use Phpadsnew....it's much much easier to do batch removals, etc I can change things on the fly. I put chitika ads up on higher rotation on the weekend when the google adsense stops paying, etc. And I can change keywords on the fly too
last two audits I've had have both seen my earnings decrease by around 10% which I was reasonably happy with.
I am still waiting for my first audit from Chitika but with my site mainly catering to Canadians I am not expecting to loose very much for invalid clicks. About 95% of my traffic comes from Canada.