Posted on May 13, 2006 by Marsha James

Chitika was once the promising new opponent to Adsense and was great because it could be used in addition to Google’s adsense unlike many other ad providers. Most members were pleased when they also saw that they were being paid more per click as well.

However it all seems to be going downhill now and started with the auditing and not well kept accounts. For instances you cannot check your accounts in real time, you almost have to wait 24 hours and sometimes even then your daily balance is not yet posted. With the auditing every month you could see your balance of $100 drop to as much as $40 or less because they would say that they determined the other $60 to be fraud so even then your daily balance means nothing.

The final kick in the teeth came with the payments. One month they put up a message saying something about the auditing and that payments would be late. Not a problem unless this started happening frequently which it did. I no longer use it but still see at least two emails a month telling me that payment will be late.

Can Chitika bounce back? I have no idea but they need to do something soon because many webmasters I talk to say they no longer use it or plan to stop soon.