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I read a few posts in the blogosphere about people complaining that after the Chitika earnings audit yesterday, their actual earnings were much lower than the unaudited earnings. I saw a reduction of 26.3% myself. That’s terrible. It means that 25 cents out of every dollar was from an invalid click.

It is said that clicks from certain countries are not included. So it may be due to the fact that I have a significant portion of traffic from countries that were excluded. Time to rethink my strategy for those sites with Chitika - whether I should still keep those ads on the pages.

Anyone else care to share their results?

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