Hi everyone...I have been with chitika for few months now and every month the income has dropped by 10 to 15%. Not happy with it and I started looking for alternatives to remove chitika from my site. Also just last week I noticed they have added a new feature called "QUALITY SCORE" My traffic is 95% search engine so i get the best traffic anyone could get - they rated me as having a quality score of "6" - 10 being the best and the very next day they changed it to Quality score "3" and my earnings dropped even more. BTW, I make a LOT OF money with chitika so it makes a difference. I was wondering if any of you DPers are experiencing the same or similar with chitika and whats the right thing to do ? thanks peeps!
Could you please tell us where you can see this quality score? I've been using and forgetting about chitika for a few years, only one one old and forgotten site, but only 3 weeks ago I started re-using it and adding it to my new sites since. Stats have increased of course and I can watch changes, but I never saw a quality score in the interface.
From yesterday, with 7,297 ads impression and a CTR of 1.23% (90 clicks) I received $7.94 or an eCPM of $1.09. On the same site the eCPM of adsense is about 8 times higher.
Just today I see my quality score being displayed right at the top of my earnings page. It is the first time I see it, and I have a quality score of.... 1 (out of 10) That's too bad. Maybe it's their explanation for the $0.87 eCPM I have on average for last week..
chitika is dead. kontera and infolinks are doing much better compared to chitika and chitika is supposed to be an andsense alternative ??? I'm thinking of cutting chitika and go with someone else. I've emailed them twice regarding my ecpm and they never get back to me. CHITIKA is finished.
Today my quality score is .5, meaning 0.5, hahaha.. I use chitika only for their ad which displays on search traffic. I never tried infolinks yet, but I'm using kontera on other sites.
$14.5 eCPM ? You're lucky! What about AdSense? If you have $14.5 eCPM with Chitika, how much is it with AdSense? Not a bad niche you have then..
not a bad nice to make that much...if they cut me and I was making double as you, they will cut you as well. bottom line, chitika is dead IMO.
Have you seen the state of their forum? http://chitika.com/forum/index.php Full of spam, not a moderator to answer people questions, it's dead, you're right.
Hey people, I e-mailed them complaining about my QS and they solved the issue. I suggest you do the same.
I emailed them and they never responded back. Actually I emailed them twice. the first time directly and the second through their site. I guess its time for us all to look else where to make up the lost income and perhaps drop chitika. I still make couple hundred with them but its no where near where it was or should be.
btw since I started this thread my chitika income has dropped about 50% and yesterday had the lowest day ever... really sucks.