Comments on: WidgetBucks Release Earnings Reports

By: Paidforwritedown

Paidforwritedown — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:51 +0000

I will remove adsense to see widgetbucks result.

By: online entrepreneur

online entrepreneur — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:24:16 +0000

Widgetbucks is a good addition but it seems that they weren’t sure if the clicks are valid and told me that I’ve placed an invalid domain? Clicks are very few compared to the impressions. How come it’s fraudulent clicks? I don’t know how to resolve this because they suspended my account and told me contact them on http://support.mpire.com/ but can’t login too. Has anyone been paid by Widgetbucks? I think this might happen to anyone if they are near the payment date.

By: David Scrivner

David Scrivner — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:22:55 +0000

I have been using WidgetBucks for a month or so now and it seems to be doing just as well if not better than my Adsense. Adsense has been declining lately for me. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I think it all has to do with placement and categories that are relevant to the site.

By: Frank C

Frank C — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:21:07 +0000

My experience was that it did not outperform Adsense in the same slots on two different blogs over a two week period. Therefore, I pulled it.

By: Emad

Emad — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:03:19 +0000

I used them on http://www.thetechbrief.com and it is performing good. It is generating more money than adsense and my CTR is about 1% to 2%. It seems to work better on my porduct-based posts. I am not very happy with the speed either… I have been getting a lot of stumbleupon traffic but the widget impressions are less than the traffic which leads me to think that people are navigating away faster than the widget loads :)

By: Sean McGoldrick

Sean McGoldrick — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:58:50 +0000

My referral earnings came to 1c! Widgetbucks categories aren’t suitable for any of my blogs so I’ve just been promoting the referrals. It seems they haven’t been doing too well though. I think, based on 1c, I might look at other money-making schemes instead!

By: Sockmoney

Sockmoney — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:11:38 +0000

We checked them out but found the ads to be too flashy (annoying) for our readers tastes.

That coupled with the fact that they are new and untested, we’ll wait on this one.

By: ZRC Erik

ZRC Erik — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:28:11 +0000

Eh, it’s OK, CTR for me is lower than Adsense but the revenue is higher so it kind of equals out. My complaints:

1) Too slow to load (but everyone complains about this)
2) MerchSense (their contextual ad sensing system) is not very good at all. Not in the slightest.
3) I’d move away from MerchSense but the product categories are too restrictive.

By: James from justhuntingtips.blogpsot.com

James from justhuntingtips.blogpsot.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:18:35 +0000

WB looks very promosing i would have to agree. I would go with it instead of adsense because people are starting to tune out adsense ads.

By: Debo Hobo

Debo Hobo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:54:21 +0000

As usual my revenue is close to nill. But after looking at some of the placements on other commenters’ blogs I know now I need to move my widget to a more promenent location

By: mrloo

mrloo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:24:04 +0000

WB has a lot of potential but the big question is, when are they going to release the first payment?

And the other thing is that you only see how many referrals you have but don’t see the commission you get from them. how sad.

By: geomark

geomark — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:54:20 +0000

I don’t have a gadget site. I’m using it on a pet fish site – WidgetBucks has a Pet Fish category. My traffic is pretty low, a couple hundred visitors per day. WB is doing pretty good, much better than AdSense was doing, 3X to 4X the RPC and 2X the CTR. Maybe the CTR will drop after visitors become blind to the flashy widget, I’ll see. My CPM is around $10 – wish I could get tons of traffic!

By: Phamen

Phamen — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:07:54 +0000

This is a good news. Thank you Darren.

By: Michael Woo

Michael Woo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:25:51 +0000

I think it’s a great widget and you definitely can make a bomb provided:

You have huge traffic!

Otherwise, low traffic blogs should use adsense instead…

AuctionAds failed miserably on one of my low traffic blog :) It’s my fault actually..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:40:11 +0000

Using Blogger CMS – I love that it fits into individual blog entries whereas I haven’t been able to do that with Adsense – with adsense it seems like it’s sitewide or nothing. In this one blog’s case WB allows much more relevant ads, because it’s kinduva sprawling blog for which most of the pages would be public service stuff if I put up adsense sitewide. It’s really just a few specific posts I want to monetize, and so WB fits nicely. I’ll see what happens…

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:27:47 +0000

I started on 22 oct. and I think I got pretty money. It’s true that the widgets are so slow yet but if you own a product blog or similar topic you can get a nice mount of money. Better than AdSense or Chitika. Anyway, AdSense will be the number one for me.

By: Murat Yilmaz

Murat Yilmaz — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:22:19 +0000

It is not bad at all if you have a gadget site like mine and run especially gadget products of widgetbucks. But still Chitika works better for me. Widgetbucks will be more popular if they solve their speed problem

By: Hyder

Hyder — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:21:50 +0000

Referral earnings are dismal. So have my own, but I have plans for them. They have to be really targeted otherwise it’s completely useless.

By: Carla - savvmari.com

Carla - savvmari.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:20:18 +0000

Wow, I never heard of Widget bucks until today… I will check them out and see what earning$ I can generate by putting them on my site. Thanks again for the always informative updates.

By: markowe

markowe — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:18:42 +0000

Is it my imagination, or did the CTR gradually decline over the month? I have a sneaky feeling, that I have had from the beginning, that the widget is just TOO flashy and that people were initially clicking out of curiosity rather than interest in the product.

If that is so, then publishers are going to be seeing a low action rate, which might explain a reduction in CPC, and also we are going to be seeing a decline in earnings, as compared to initial launch. This is as surfers, and especially regular readers, get blind to the widget… Hope I am wrong, because Widgetbucks has thrashed Adsense for me…