In October I had none of my revenue removed by Chitika in the audit. In November it was around 5%. In December it is ~20%. Considering that December discounts, already, clicks from non-represented countries, 20% is way too high. What did everyone else see with the December numbers compared to previous months?
I lost ~28%. I didnt expect that much. Especially becouse my stats show great number of visitors from usa. About 95%. I expected 10-20% to be removed in worst case. I still run chitika, but making new strategy. Iam not happy 50%. lol
I am happy enough with the Nov / Dec audit and Chitika in general. I find that it is a great complement to AdSense. For me it has not canabalized my earnings from AdSense at all and so will stay on my sites.
I lost almost nothing... But it doesn't make me really happy since I had much less clicks after removin some links from ads
Happy or Not? Hmmmm. Kinda grumpy, but not entirely PO'd. A double digit % gone, but in the low range. What worries me the most is a reference in their blog to how chargebacks on merchants effect our payments. Chargebacks? Since when did we sign-up for CPA? Chitika is contractually CPC. I understand click fraud. I even understand unsupported countries. No problem with those. But chargebacks? (sound of teeth grinding)
For december I lost 0.00% but I did start using alternate ads from the very start so I guess that cut out the invalid clicks straight away
Funny thing is I sent them a detailed e-mail asking for additional informationa nd insight and I got a 2 line response telling me to read the blog.
Yah, their support leaves a LOT to be desired. I asked for a detailed and very specific definition of the term "curiosity clicks" when that topic reared its ugly head. Got blown off until I pressed the matter. With a CPC contract, a click is a click is a click, yes? Except for fraud, of course, but that ain't how you spell curiosity.