My friend from the states just sent out a mass email on a new widget which he thought i might be interested since blog on money making programs. While i was reading on my emails, coincidentally i was also catching up on both Darren Rowse and John Chow's blog and this topic is starting to become interesting because all 3 happens to talk about the same monetizing effects on WidgetBucks which was a new advertising shopping ads network.
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.
Signup with WidgetBucks to experience how they can make money for you! Are you on widgetbucks, were these the only problems faced and what do you think about widgetbucks?
