Make Money with WidgetBucks - $25 Bonus for Signing Up!

WidgetBucks Celebrates 1st Birthday
With $25 Sign-Up Bonus

UPDATE: WidgetBucks is no longer recommended by this blog!!!

WidgetBucks, one of the fastest-growing ad networks, has just completed its first year in business. And to celebrate, they're offering a $25 sign-up bonus for all new publishers. That's right, you'll get $25 in cool cash when you sign up with WidgetBucks.

WidgetBucks is offering this celebratory $25 sign-up bonus until the end of October, so don't wait to take advantage of the offer if you haven't already.

What Is WidgetBucks?

WidgetBucks is an ad network that features CPC (cost-per-click) and CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) shopping widgets that help you make money fast. The WidgetBucks widgets display the most popular products based on the buying trends of over 100 million shoppers. You choose which types of products you want to advertise, and WidgetBucks does the rest.

The widgets are completely customizable (with over 300 configurations and 256 color schemes), so you can tailor them to fit the look and feel of your blog or website. Here's an example of a WidgetBucks ad widget in action:

How To Make Money With WidgetBucks

There are three basic ways to make money with WidgetBucks:

• CPC, or cost-per-click widget ads - Each time a user clicks on a WidgetBucks ad widget, you make money.
• CPM, or cost-per-thousand impressions - Each time a CPM ad from one of WidgetBucks’ ad partners is shown, you make money.
• WidgetBucks Referral Program - Refer people to WidgetBucks and you'll receive 5% of the commissions earned by everyone you refer. Just another easy way to make money with WidgetBucks.

My Experience With WidgetBucks

My experience with WidgetBucks has been a very good one. I've been using them to make money on this site (and on others) ever since they first launched a year ago. With their combination of both CPC and CPM ad widgets, WidgetBucks tends to outperform AdSense quite consistently each month. But since you can use them alongside AdSense without breaking the AdSense TOS, you don't have to stop using AdSense just to try them out.

WidgetBucks has been going strong for a year now and I've seen nothing but improvements all along the way. They're constantly adding new, cool-looking widget skins, which allows you to continually keep your ad content fresh and engaging. And this, of course, means more money in your pocket.

Bottom line, WidgetBucks is a nice little moneymaker. If you haven't yet tried them for your blog or website, I definitely suggest you do...especially since you'll get a $25 bonus just for doing so. :)

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WidgetBucks International CPM Ads Just Launched

UPDATE: WidgetBucks is no longer recommended by this blog!!!

WidgetBucks has just announced the launch of their CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) WidgetBucks ads program.

"CPM ads for non-U.S./Canada traffic have successfully launched on WidgetBucks! This solution gives publishers the opportunity to earn revenue, per impression, for traffic that comes from countries other than U.S. and Canada."

How To Implement The CPM Ads

Important: In order to begin earning revenue from ad impressions on international traffic, you'll need to replace your existing WidgetBucks ad code with new WidgetBucks ad code.

"To update your widget(s), simply click "Copy HTML" within the "Customize Your Widget" page for that widget and re-paste/replace the code block into your site. The updated code -- which has been greatly simplified and reduced in length -- can also be replaced directly into the Blogger, TypePad or WordPress blogging platforms."

Get Your Free $25 sign-up Bonus!

CPM impressions and ad revenue results will start showing in your WidgetBucks account on Wednesday, Dec. 12th. CPM rates will vary depending on the geographic location of your site visitors. CPM revenue, PPC (pay-per-click) revenue and referral revenue data will each be updated on a daily basis, and will be available by noon Pacific Time the following day.

According to WidgetBucks, here's how it works once you've updated your WidgetBucks ad code:

"At the time a user visits a page containing the widget, we will sense the geographic location of the visitor. If they are in the U.S. and/or Canada, the user will see the normal WidgetBucks widget. If the user is outside those two countries, then our system will determine a country-specific CPM ad to display. We are currently working with advertisers covering hundreds of countries and offering thousands of creatives to ensure optimum monetization."

Updated MyWidgets Page

Also rolling out tomorrow is an updated MyWidgets page. This updated reports page should make it easier when it comes to checking your ad and referral stats. The new MyWidgetss page will include tabbed navigation for all three revenue streams (PPC, CPM and referrals). Here's a look at it...


This new WidgetBucks interface gives you a breakdown of PPC and CPM impressions, expanded referral data and integrated blog headlines to keep you up-to-date with things happening at the WidgetBucks camp.

All in all, some pretty good changes coming from WidgetBucks, and I expect to see some more good things down the line. It you haven't tried WidgetBucks yet, you can sign up for a free account here. You'll also get $25 deposited in your account just for signing up!

WidgetBucks Payments Go Out Early!

Ads Suck. But Theirs Don't.

UPDATE: WidgetBucks is no longer recommended by this blog!!!

WidgetBucks is now distributing October earnings to publishers - nearly 10 days ahead of schedule. The initial wave of PayPal payments went out on Monday, while the remainder will go out over the next couple of days. Checks are being processed and mailed early this week as well, including those that are being sent to international publishers.

If you haven't yet tried WidgetBucks you might want to give it a look-see. I've been using them in a couple of different places on the Web and am happy with the results I've seen so far. On average, the RPC (revenue-per-click) has been almost double what I'm used to getting with Google Adsense, so that's a pleasant surprise in itself.

When you sign-up with WidgetBucks, you'll automatically receive a $25 bonus into your account, which is pretty cool. And WidgetBucks offers a referral program as well. WidgetBucks affiliates earn a 10 percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people they refer. Affiliates receive the 10 percent referral fee for the full 12 months after the new member joins.

WidgetBucks Offers CPM Ads

WidgetBucks will also be offering CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) ads sometime early this month. This will allow bloggers and site owners to monetize their international traffic.

"At the time a user visits a page containing the widget, we will sense the geographic location of the visitor. If they are in the U.S. and/or Canada, the user will see the normal WidgetBucks widget. If the user is outside those two countries, then our system will determine a country- specific CPM ad to display. We are currently working with advertisers covering 100
countries and offering thousands of creatives to ensure that site visitors will be monetized for your benefit."

And that's certainly good news considering the recent policy change to stop paying on clicks that resulted from international traffic. The change was implemented due to non-converting clicks (to sales) by users geographically outside the U.S. and Canada. Some website owners were upset over the change, but in the end, the bottom line is this: An ad network must maintain its network quality. If it doesn't, no merchants will advertise on it.

So the CPM route is the perfect way to go. It's a win-win, both for merchants and for site owners. The clicks that merchants pay for will have higher sales conversions, and the international traffic that sites receive will earn them guaranteed revenue, as opposed to nothing at all. In addition, higher sales conversions should also translate into higher RPC (revenue-per-click) as time goes on.

All in all, it looks like some pretty good things are taking place at the from the WidgetBucks camp, and I'll definitely keep my ears open for anything new.