Chitika releases audited data for November and December
Well, it's official, Chitika has released the audited eMiniMalls earnings for November and December 2005 before January 15, just like they promised. Hell hath frozen over, it seems. Well, this was their last chance to prove themselves to publishers.
My own small numbers (I'm only running the ads on Invisible Fence Guide) are hardly representative, but there's been no big drop in my reported earnings, which is good. Hopefully no one gets their revenue chopped by up to 90% like Chitika did to them before during the auditing, although they do point out that “Clients with significant click traffic from countries not currently supported by our program, can expect to see a large difference between the unaudited daily click reports and the final audited earnings for November”, because the November figures don't take into account the filtering adjustments they made in December.
Payments for November are being processed now. December payments will be sent out at the end of January. (We hope!)
Apparently, new eMiniMalls features are in the works. I wonder how many publishers they've lost since their launch because of the problems they've had? They had quite a positive buzz going, let's hope they can recover.
Eric Giguere is the AdSense expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and the new e-book Uncommon AdSense.