This new money making machine looks like a spawn of Chitika, just better and much easier for us to make some cash out of the ads. Why is it much easier than many other programs out there? The way you earn money is exactly the same way you run your contextual ads on Google Adsense, you earn for every click on the ads.
Why your earnings will be much better than Adsense
Adsense runs on contexually ads so there is no way you can be interested unless you read what they ads are offering but with Widgetbucks, the ads shown is very enticing it shows you the actually product you are looking for so once you see the product you want to purchase, you will click on it to read right, i will highly recommend this widget if you are running a blog related to those relevant categories. For example if you run a photo blog, placing Digital Camera Category will surely increase your click rates and WidgetBucks claims $3 to $6 eCPM in early test results.
Widgetbucks gives you $25 for joining their program
Without even advertising for them, Widgetbucks drops $25 into your pocket but there is a condition you need to earn another $25 to cash out this incentive they have given you. Why not? Wouldn't that be $50 in total that i will be getting.
Paying you fast
As quick as you receive your widget code to monetize your blog, once you hit the minimum of $50 you are able to cash out your check the first of every month for all revenue earned during the previous month. I have not heard anything from Paypal, but it seems they will pay you instantly once you hit the minimum amount.
It works for all platforms
The 3 major Blog platform Typepad, Blogger and wordpress could be directly integrated with the widget and you also have a choose to add the Code manually into your choice of platforms or websites you own.
Where do these products come from
Product offers from 30,000 merchants, including top brands such as Amazon, Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, NewEgg, Macy's and Gap and the Flash-based widgets, presented in part as top 10 lists, cover 100 different categories, 300+ configurations and buying trends of 100 million online shoppers.
What i like about this new program
- There are 100 over colors to chose so that it can blend with your blog colour
- The ad units are all very clear and very clickable
- You can run multiple ads on your blog
- Like i have said, it will work very well on relevant blogs
For those who are not US base residents
After you have signup with Widgetbucks, you would need to go to 'settings' to get your details all updated and one one of the details that i need to fill in was whether i am Tax exempted? Of course i am one lucky bastard living outside the US that do not require to fill this up but even when i submit as 'Yes', the update still required me to include 9 characters for my Tax ID, one of the dumbest form i even encountered!
So i go ahead an put in my 9 characters required and everything could be updated, make sure you do it so that you don't have to jump around saying this is a stupid form twice!
The referral dollars don't look attractive at all, don't they?
At one glance i thought for every referral, i will automatically receive $5 but you got to read on cause you will only receive the $5 if your hard working referral actually makes $25 first before they deposit the money to you.
The Flash Widget is the weak point
If you had this widget running on your blog, you would have notice how slow it is to load, it takes a much longer time to load compared to programs like AuctionAds and Adsense Ads, you just got to bear with it.
*update: it took around 5-10 seconds to load the full widget up.
30 Responses to "Make Money Online with WidgetBucks - A New Revolutionary Advertising Option"
October 2, 2007 6:06 PM
like you said, i was amazed by how this program look like chitika and with a PPC concept! I am sure it will make money on my blog!
I also noticed the lag and its quite disturbing on my blog..guess it will not work well..
October 3, 2007 4:05 AM
i don't know about it too much.. but i'm not really sure i like if it the ads are only going to be electronics...
October 3, 2007 9:58 AM
revenuebot:there are a few categories to chose from so don't worry..
kelly&jenny:yes the program is laggy ebcause of the flash widget..so bear with it.
November 7, 2007 5:47 AM
Has somebody got the final stats for October already? The first week of November has almost gone but I still don't have mine shown in my WidgetBucks account.
November 7, 2007 10:56 AM
I guess everyone is holding on to the results because the payout is only during dec.
November 8, 2007 3:48 AM
Great post Etienne. A lot of people seem to be wondering just how well this program will work. I think it is a fantastic thing that will work wonders. I have had some stop by my blog saying that they don't think it will work well on blogs but I think it will depending on what you are blogging about. The few people I have come across who have reached the minimum payment are holding out until December for payments. I guess only time will tell as to how good WidgetBucks really is.
February 8, 2008 4:43 AM
My Experience with WIDGETBUCKS
I WILL TRY TO POST THIS ON THEIR BLOG- I AM SURE THEY WILL NEVER APPROVE AND POST IT.
ADS SUCKS but Widget bucks Not ------ This is there slogan........ But to the contrary, Not only there ads but THEY SUCK...............
Now my experience.....
1. I joined there publisher network in the beginning of Dec 2007. During the month of Dec 2007, I managed to get 1 referral and earned around $200 by running their ads on my websites.
2. As they say......that actual bucks (AFTER CHECK FOR CLICK FRAUD ETC) will be posted under MY BUCKS within first 10 day of next month (e.g. FINAL Dec earnings will be posted by 10th of Jan) they posted my earnings as $200.00 + earning from referral (They didn’t deduct a cent from the listed earning i had in MY WIDGET page of the statistics)
3. I earned around $ 150 + earning from referral during the month of Jan 2008.
4. On Jan 30th I received a message from WIDGETBUCKS TEAM stating that I should respond to the message in 48 hours else- My account will be suspended.
REASON GIVEN - MY WEBSITES CONTAIN AN ADULT CONTENT.
Please feel free to checkout my sites and see for yourself if there is any ADULT CONTENT. My Websites where widget bucks code is placed: -
LenovoRu
WebHv
DebugRu
HowItWorkz
5. I responded to there message via email as well as there support site http://support.mpire.com stating that this is untrue and they should recheck the website and there records.
6. Now I got a response back stating MY WEBSITES ARE NON-ENGLISH websites and they mistakenly said it contains an ADULT CONTENT.
Again I replied telling them all my websites are in English, they are free to checkout by themselves if they are NON-ENGLISH or ENGLISH
7. I responded to the message stating my websites are in ENGLISH and I SIGNED up as publisher only in DEC 2007, IF MY websites are NON-ENGLISH I would have not been approved as a PUBLISHER as per WIDGETBUCKS site requirement.
8. Got reply this time - that MY account has been suspended because of CLICK FRAUD (see this is 3rd statement for one issue).
This time the Widget bucks team member re-activated my account and I was back up on Feb 4, 2008.
9. I read on there blog that all of the publisher are paid for the month of Dec 2007 by Feb 5th 2008, whereas I was not paid.
10. I opened a ticket regarding the payment for the month of Dec 2007, and guess what............
11. The response I got --- "Your account was suspended again for click-fraud. We aim to build a healthy network and seek publishers who generate natural traffic and clicks."
AND HE SUSPENDED MY ACCOUNT AGAIN.
POINT TO NOTE HERE IS - ONE OF THEIR TEAM MEMBER HAD ACTIVATED MY ACCOUNT 2 DAYS AGO BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WERE AT FAULT. NOW WHEN I ASKED FOR PAYMENT THEY DEACTIVATED MY ACCOUNT AGAIN.
12. WHEN I responded back ....I get this message ---
”This suspension was for the previous clicks, December - January. You are welcome to apply again for the program but this account will remain suspended."
Point to note here is - As I mention above they NOTICE the CLICK FRAUD when I ASKED for the PAYMENT and not the TIME when they POSTED MY ACTUAL EARNINGS.
My Dear PUBLISHERS please let me know what does this entire STORY MEANS to YOU.
I am posting this on all the blogs so that my publisher friends gets a heads up that what all WIDGET BUCKS CAN do with anyone. THEY CAN SUSPEND YOUR ACCOUNT EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE NO REASON AND EAT YOUR ENTIRE EARNINGS.
At the END I would just wish you all LUCK and Widget bucks also ALL THE BEST as they enjoy my EARNINGS.
Thanks for your patience to read this on blog.
-Publisher-
June 28, 2008 5:13 PM
Nice posrt. I am trying WidgetBuck on my blog now and I am interested to see if it will earn me more than my very low adsense income.
April 30, 2009 5:28 PM
thank you, very interesting topic that time and hard work to achieve good results
May 29, 2009 1:55 PM
I would like to thank you for this great article about making money with advertizing! Was very helpful for me!
June 29, 2009 11:53 AM
It's been years since Widgetbucks was launched but I am still hesitant to try it. Adsense still seems to be more popular
September 11, 2009 5:34 PM
Hi,
Wow that is an interesting concept, very complex. But it seems very effective. It would be fun to try it out and see what type of results I can get.Hope that WidgetBuck doesn't dump me.
September 11, 2009 7:17 PM
Hi, interesting post. I have been pondering this issue,so thanks for writing. I will definitely be coming back to your site. Keep up the good work
October 2, 2009 2:38 AM
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November 3, 2009 9:56 AM
I will try widget bucks. Thanks to it.
Dara
November 7, 2009 5:49 PM
Thanks for the wonderful article.
But All I have to say is that Widget bucks has not yet worked well for me.
November 14, 2009 6:22 PM
Nice post but i have not tried out widget bucks this is the time i am hearing about it.
December 30, 2009 5:34 PM
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February 2, 2010 4:12 PM
I have heard that widgetbucks is pretty good way of making money online.
February 24, 2010 11:59 PM
Very informative post..but i think adsense is the best...
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March 23, 2010 6:35 PM
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April 22, 2010 9:29 PM
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