Chitika : A Sellout to its Advertisers
The BlogHerald Reports:
Chitika is copping a lot of flack over their audit procedures with bloggers reporting massive loses due to the process. Coverage at Problogger, fuck ThreadWatch and Jensense. Anti Chitika sites have popped up with names such as Shitika and Chitika Sucks as well.
We also would like to announce that the first ever Fuckr of the Week goes to Chitika, close runner ups are TextDrive, and Threadwatch.
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A Bad Week for Chitika
Chitika’s eMiniMalls was seen by many to be the real deal in it’s competition for Pay-Pay-Click advertising on blogs, none more so that Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger – Here, Here, Here and Here, who has been a fervent admirer of Chitika …
Home Office Voice - Home Business on the Web said this on December 1, 2005 11:37 pm
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…
Inside Online Advertising said this on December 2, 2005 10:12 am
The name Cheatika eRipOff comes to mind also…. don’t remember where I heard it.
dude said this on December 2, 2005 10:56 am
[...] Update: More rants here, here, here and here. [...]
» Chitika Audit Results @ Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ] said this on December 2, 2005 4:05 pm
[...] Chitika Sucks blog Shitika blog Bad Week for Chitika Jack of All Blogs [...]
Marketing Tools Review » Lessons from Chitika - The Power of Blogs said this on December 2, 2005 7:05 pm
Chitika Backlash – My view from the sidelines
Wadblog of course is now looking for who to whore himself err partner with in return for loot. Adsense from Google is kind of a no brainier, but who else is out there? Chitika is one who while doing my research I have looked at and its interesting. No…
www.Wadblog.com said this on December 3, 2005 6:09 pm
Chitika needs to stop showing us unaudited statistics. They are exposing too much, they need to just show us audited stats and call it stats.
They will rebound
Blog Network Forum said this on December 3, 2005 8:33 pm
[...] Then he goes and stands up for Chitika. While I seem to take a strong disliking to them. [...]
Monday Morning Roundup » Fine Fools Community said this on December 4, 2005 10:30 pm
[...] Then he goes and stands up for Chitika. While I seem to take a strong disliking to them. [...]
Back to the office. » Fine Fools Community said this on December 4, 2005 10:35 pm
wow, quite suprising indeed. I was gonna use them, but will now stay away.
mark said this on January 29, 2006 11:55 pm