Comments on: WidgetBucks Offer New Publishers a $50 Sign On Bonus – Baseball Card Promotion

By: Jame

Jame — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:26:00 +0000

thanks for the tip, I’m going to give WB a go – need some fresh ideas for my site!

Cheers

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:04:11 +0000

so I’m wondering …is a new york pizza any good??

By: Tinh

Tinh — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:55:33 +0000

Thanks Darren, but I think how can junior bloggers from unsupported countries can grow up in this case while almost affiliate and PPC, CPC are not supporting them. Any tips from you? Thanks

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:55:00 +0000

Shopping Ads only offers $25 to publishers, and it is kinda hard to effectively target ads because of their kind of technology

By: Fav Browser

Fav Browser — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:31:33 +0000

I don’t remember why, but I skipped them. Did they had text links in bottom?

By: Bryn Youngblut

Bryn Youngblut — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:03:43 +0000

Good marketing technique with the baseball cards. Your posting about it so it must have worked, unless there was some more incentive ;)

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:44:38 +0000

thanks for the tip, I’m going to give WB a go – need some fresh ideas for my site!

Cheers

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:28:57 +0000

Dave Conrey – no ad network will make a lot of money on a new blog with not much traffic – but WidgetBucks can do as well as other ad units if the blog is product related. My view with advertising is to start it early – gets readers used to the idea of ads on the blog.

ImpNERD – I think it depends on the blog’s topic personally. I’ve seen them do well on some blogs and not perform at all on others. The key is to test different options and go with what works.

Tinh – sounds like they’re slowly expanding where their ads work.

Matthew – yep, they need North American traffic to perform best. They’ve recently expanded into Europe but it’s still largely a US thing from what I see.

Dilip – too hard to choose between them – as I’ve said above, depends a lot on the blog. The key is to test them both alone and in combination with one another.

Sid – sure, I’ll make sure it is :-)

Simon – I’ve not seen any of those problems. The main issues I heard of early on were with people clicking their own ads and/or people who had issues with them over non US traffic etc.

Like I say above numerous times. WB isn’t for everyone – test it for yourself, if you see promising results early on go for the bonus $50, if it doesn’t work out – try something else til you find something that does.

By: gout

gout — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:05:26 +0000

I think very great oppotunity…thanks for information

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:29:30 +0000

Not interested but there’s something I want to tell you. Your writings are very focused and enjoyable (and learnable too) to read. There is some beautiful advise I get from your blog daily. I want to thank you for giving such beautiful content. Please Keep it up!

By: Sire

Sire — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:11:27 +0000

Nice offer, but I reckon if I put anymore widgets on my blogs they will implode under the virtual weight of it all.

By: BloggerNewbie

BloggerNewbie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:56:40 +0000

Darren,

I’m betting on the embarrassing moment with the grandkids vs eBay. Sorry! he he

Too cool though!

By: "Motivate Thyself"

"Motivate Thyself" — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:41:34 +0000

I love that picture, Darren. You seem so…focused on what you’re doing. :-)

By: Steven Wilson Marketing

Steven Wilson Marketing — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:30:40 +0000

Love the 70’s style baseball card design Darren I have loads of ball cards hanging around.Widget Bucks on the other hand has never played out like expected.

By: Lara Kulpa

Lara Kulpa — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:44:14 +0000

HAHA I took that picture! I’ve got to have one of these…

BTW – He’s just looking up and out the window (we were sitting at a countertop against the window), and this was his first bite of NYC pizza ever. I was honored to have been the one to introduce Darren to NYC pizza! This was a lunch break we took during the FOOA conference in 2007.

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:34:16 +0000

embarressing = embarrassing…

How embarrassing!

By: Tosin Emmanuel

Tosin Emmanuel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:01:20 +0000

Hi Darren,

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

Is this Wigetbucks acceptable on a blog hosted by blogger?

I’m a newbie to blogging. Can you kindly take a minute to check my blog and tell me what is lacking?

Thanks.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:20:25 +0000

Widget bucks had a lot of complaints about not pyaing out when they first started out…I am suprised to see you are still pushing them Darren.

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:29:07 +0000

So this same pic is going on the jacket cover for ProBlogger II The Book, right?

By: Ryan McLean

Ryan McLean — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:20:32 +0000

Haha this photo is pretty awesome. I can’t wait till someone makes a baseball card of me :)