November 27, 2007...10:07 am
Widget Bucks - Easy Web Site Advertising
If you’re looking for a simple, but impressive way to earn income from your web site or blog you should check out Widget Bucks here.
Widget Bucks began trading in October this year, and are backed by an established company, MPire.
The advertising widgets are attractive and you can customise the size and colour to fit your site. Unlike the plain text AdWords that people running AdSense have on their site Widget Bucks are much more engaging and show products and prices in rotation.
You can select your category of product e.g. mp3 players, laptops, pet products, books DVDs etc or like AdSense, have the adverts displayed automatically based on the content of your page. This automatic option is called MerchSense. I’ve opted for specific categories (digital camcorders, mp3 players and lap tops) on some of my web sites.
An example of the types of larger adverts is shown below.
Click Throughs vs CPM
At the moment you only receive money on click-throughs generated by visitors from North America. If a visitor to your site is from outside North America, you are paid for every 1000 appearances of the ads on your site. However, unless you run a very specialist web site or blog, it is likely that a lot of your web site traffic will be from the United States and Canada anyway so you still make money no matter where your visitors come from. (updated information is available here)
At the moment (until January 15th 08), they credit $25 to your account when you sign up and pay out when your account reaches $50 so you only have to make $25 to receive your first $50 cheque. It’s money for nothing really, and it shows they are serious about expanding their network.
You can also make additional money by referring people to the scheme. You will receive a referrers commission of 10% of what they earn in the their first year. You can either refer via text links such as the one below or there is a sign up link on each of your ad widgets which contains your referrer information.
They really have made everything incredibly simple to set up and I think that early adopters will benefit from the innovation of this new scheme. You can try out Widget Bucks here.
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January 4, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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