When I tried Widgetbucks almost a year ago, I had great hopes that it can make me more money than Adsense. The truth is it really did! 2 weeks after joining widgetbucks I was banned from Adsense for what they called “gaming” them! I made about a nice $31 on one of my sites back then. But well widgetbucks just dont blend well w/my sites. The widgets drastically make my sites slower to load and most people are pissed w/it.
Until November, when widgetbucks made a makeover and they did email everyone about their rvamped network. So I gave it a go to this blog and you can see it running at the right bottom part. Basically what convinced me to put this into it is the fact that we are close to holiday and people are likely interested with holiday/christmas items like Christmas trees and so on. Also companies are giving out massive discounts and fire sales for great products so its easy to have their attention.
Anyway widgetbucks pays on two types. First is for clicks. They pay some pennies per click if the clicks are from US and Canada I believe. They also pay on a CPM basis for most countries I believe but it varies. Say for every thousand impression for US, their’s an ecpm of over $2 while in Asia not even a dollar per thousand mille. Again its on per impression not uniques and i believe me getting 60,000 pageviews and about 40,000 on US traffic, is fair! Let’s see how far this thing will go!
Widgetsucks gives a free $25 on signup but again the thrill is that you have to make $25 more to be into the minimum of $50 payout. Most newbies tend to be attracted with free signups but never managed to get into cashing it out.
I ve never used it, I am happy that you made som emoney with it ..
out of topic (my reply to my latest post)
Haha!~ my sched is also f*cked up, you know…
because my sister was starting to annoy me so I gave her a chance to watch w/ her…
the film, I’ll rate it 4 stars out of 5.. haha. 😛
many people were screaming inside the cinema hahaha
I accept with the last sentence.People tend to sign up if they are given money for free sign ups.Although I have never tried widget bucks.I believe its useful.Great post Melvin.
I don’t like Widgetbucks. When they first launched, there were too much hype.
I didn’t quite like WidgetBucks’ ads looks. Though I signed up sometime ago, I never cared to put their ads.
I think, AdSense works pretty well when it comes to CPC advertising (and sometimes CPM as well)
A lot of people really hate widgetsucks because of the nature of their ad… But then Im pretty close to the $100 in my account on it so I just gave it a go for a whole month. 🙂
Have to admit I was like them before when I was starting out.
Hmm.. tempting 😀 Unfortunately, I could not sacrifice Adsense for Widgetbucks. Some of my sites are depending with Adsense as the main source of income
I’ve never used widgetbucks might try them some days I have quiet a few advertisements on my blog as it is, I’m hoping I’ll get round to making a theme or buying one. I blog over at http://www.genxor.com
Wow, that makes me interested in starting widgget bucks. I’ve only used adsense myself, but being paid for impressions is a great new idea. I don’t know how they could make money from that, but I guess they do. And that 25$ bonus is a nice gift as well. Thanks for sharing.
Hmm, they are big scammers and that’s why they failed…
They never tracked affiliates properly.. I am sure for that.
Adsense all the way!!!
I will probably never use anything but adsense because of reputation, payouts, size and all of that, but it’s just my opinion
It was there on my site for 10 days – enough time to know that its actually sucking my visitors time, yes its really slow down the loading time.