A quick note: the audited eMiniMalls revenue for January 2006 has been posted, with payments soon to follow. My audited revenue is about 25% less than the unaudited revenue. You can check your figures quite easily by opening two browser windows and logging in twice to your Chitika account and using the “Filter by Dates” dropdown in each report window to show last month's earnings.
Once again, I wish that Chitika would improve its auditing procedures. While it's not unknown for Google to make adjustments to an AdSense account after the fact, auditing in most cases happens in near-real-time and so you don't end up with unrealistic expectations as to your payments. Chitika could be running its audits more frequently. Even weekly would be better than monthly.
I'd like to hear from other Chitika publishers as to how much their earnings are affected by the auditing procedure. We could come up with an average percentage by which to mentally reduce future earnings.
Eric Giguere is the contextual advertising expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and Uncommon AdSense.