At long last, Chitika (aff) released the audited traffic reports for October! (Yes, that long.) This is what most bloggers in the Philippines are waiting for — by how much the conversion rate is reduced after the revenues are audited.
I ran the test over at PinoyBlog covering the month of October and November. The daily stats over there include unique visitors in the range of 2,000 to 2,500 contributing to about 15,000 pageviews per day, bringing the total monthly impression to about 470,000. Of which, 59.8% of the traffic comes from the US, followed by Australia at 9.6%, the Philippines at 4%, China at 3.4% and Hong Kong at 2.8%. The rest of 20.4% of the traffic are scattered across a majority of Asian countries.
Since Chitika only accepts traffic from the US, Canada, Western Europe and Australia, this brings the potential conversion ratio to 7 out of every 10 impressions. Not bad, huh? However, the audited traffic report showed only 31% of the clicks were valid while the revenue is just 21% of the total unaudited report. In short, the 70% valid traffic only contributed 31% of the clicks.
In terms of revenues, we only get $0.21 out of every $1.00 that’s being logged before audit.
Those are dismal figures. I’ll stick to AdSense.
Results were dismal, on my end. I initially thought I’d get about 40 to 50% of my unaudited income (as my traffic was about 40% RP and about 40% US)–which is all right, because even that would exceed my AdSense revenue.
But the audit came up with less than that. Only got 17.5%.
Not worth it, unless a good majority (80+%) of your traffic comes from supported countries.
But then again, the revenue tracking is in need of improvement. Chitika should offer live (or at least on-the-hour, like AdSense) revenue tracking, and more frequent audits. It’s a bummer to have to wait a whole month for audited results.
Angelo
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