Comments on: WidgetBucks Update – Speeds Up Loading Time, Removes Backlink and Removes Non English Sites From Network

By: Kylyne

Kylyne — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:42:29 +0000

As for me, since my site is no more than a week old, and still seeks for traffic. it loads faster compared before the changes.

By: Anne Glamore

Anne Glamore — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:34:04 +0000

I replaced the code AND increased the memory in my PC (for unrelated reasons) and that thing is still a slow-loader.

By: syaifudin zuhri

syaifudin zuhri — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:21:25 +0000

Darren I see, when I enter my member area, loading is faster, and the loading ad unit after Update is better 3 second.
Hay! every body is it good ?

Actually I need more faster as other ad unit in my other program. Adsense still no#1 he..he

Thanks
Syaifudin zuhri

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:50:35 +0000

The returns ($0) just weren’t worth the real estate the widget took up, and the ads/products were only an o.k. fit with my site. Bye bye, WidgetBucks. Too bad, because it was publisher friendly.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:59:38 +0000

That was one of the main turn-offs for me when I first discovered WidgetBucks. I might give this one another go again.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:35:49 +0000

John Chow did a post yesterday on his blog that tells of how WidgetBucks got banned by Google and that could possibly happen to those of us that run the widget on our sites. I emailed them my inquiry regarding this- no response back yet, but it has not been 24hrs as the auto-response email indicated it would take.

However I am very interested in finding out if they indeed did get banned, why and if our Google indexing is in jeopardy. Do you have any knowledge of this Darren?

By: sangesh

sangesh — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:57:03 +0000

I learned about this website @ ur blog. I hope this website has made some serious changes in their services. I am also planning to join them.

By: GettyCash

GettyCash — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:55:44 +0000

The hidden link was removed. The widgets still slow loading.

By: Darknight

Darknight — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:20 +0000

I don’t really think WidgetBucks is slow…It has good interface but it still more faster than the flash based ads (and the video Ads!!)

By: charles

charles — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:05:19 +0000

still the load time is slow. when I scroll down my page, it will pause or freeze for a second or 2.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:47:32 +0000

I don’t think the speeds have improved much either, at least not enough to use on a site yet.

By: Online Zarada

Online Zarada — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:51:51 +0000

I’m not noticing any change with loading time. I think it will cost them a lot because competition is growing very fast (ttzmedia, shoppingads)

By: Make Money Online Dot Net

Make Money Online Dot Net — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:24:44 +0000

Still slow loading and the lowest CTR of any ad network I’ve tried to date. I was going to give them another month but the hidden links thing was the final straw.

By: James

James — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:28:11 +0000

The load times are still horrible, and so are the payouts. It’s right up there with auctionads as one of the worst ad programs I’ve used.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:12:25 +0000

No Darren, Andy Beard also mentioned that the widget loading times hadn’t improved. Its a good thing they are making updates though – its a positive attitude.

By: M Freitas

M Freitas — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:56:51 +0000

I had Widgetbucks running in a slow pace as an alternate ad for my other neworks…

I had it – no longer – because when I logged in yesterday to check stats the widgets were gone in my impressions were 0 – and even earning were 0. And I am sure I had some stuff there before including a few $.

I sent then an e-mail asking what happened, and they couldn’t even bother answering that.

So I guess it’s time to discard bad customer service and go back to the tested and true services, not this half baked thing.

By: florian

florian — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:39:52 +0000

it would have been better to get somes advertisers outside the us. there is so little competition of ppc ads in non english speaking countries.

By: Mark Avey

Mark Avey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:27:33 +0000

I’d actually removed WidgetBucks from my largest blog due to the loading times. I’ve reinstalled after receiving the email, but it’s still very slow. The actual widget loads fast enough, but it seems to hang my site for up to 10 seconds when making a call to img.shopping.com. It’s better than it was, but not great.

I’m persevering due to its good click through rate and cpc for now.

Mark

By: McBilly

McBilly — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:15:51 +0000

I’m not sure about the loading time. But the hidden text link is now gone in the new codes. Good move for widgetbucks.

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:55:06 +0000

I received this e-mail this morning and since I have just started a gadget related blog, I placed it in my blog. I noticed that it is faster than some blogs who haven’t had their widget updated yet.

WidgetBucks is a ad platform that is publisher-friendly rather than advertiser-friendly. They make people sign up to publish their ads because of the PPC rate and not like any other shopping platforms that uses a CPA rate.