WidgetBucks - a new advertising opportunity for your site
Author: Nick Papanotas
Today a new advertising network, WidgetBucks has been announced. This looks as a good opportunity for publishers, as their ads look very clickable as they don’t look to what we are used to think of as an advertisement.
Why to use WidgetBucks ads
The best reason is that their ads have high CTR. Now according to their site you earn $3-6 CPM which is a great amount (if that is true of course 
) They pay through cheque and the lower payment is $50 which is very reasonable.
The adverts are separated into 13 categories with each category having several sub categories, their is also the option for a pseudo contextual advertisements which they have called ‘MerchSense’ widgets themselves come in a range of sizes and colours which can be used to match a site or to make the widget stand out.
$25 bonus for signup
As an opening promotion they are offering $25 just for sign up, which makes the target of $50 much easier.
Last comment
I always look into testing new programs and this looks very promising. So I am going to test it and give you a full review later this month. In the meanwhile here is how their ads look like :
With a $25 promotion its worth signing up even if you later take it down as the offer is part of their initial opening and may not be around for ever to sign up to WidgetBucks takes just a second or two.
Seo Developer
from Website development and seo2007-10-02 09:59:37
As yoy say it looks realy cool and sounds promising…
I ll sign later today…
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2007-10-02 15:31:36
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Tim Nash
2007-10-02 19:01:14
Interesting site, though I think their CPM are very optimistic I tend to find such widgets irritating so I can imagine they will be adblocked particularly quickly
admin
from Webdigity webmaster forums2007-10-02 21:23:32
Tim, maybe you are right. For the moment I have just integrated their ads to a site, so later I will have more info on them
Olaf Lederer
from PHP rules!2007-10-03 11:33:50
Just joined and added them to my video site. I made on this site some good money with Auctionads before.
The bad point is that these offers are only fro people from the US, I guess I need a location filter.
admin
from Webdigity webmaster forums2007-10-03 11:36:21
I haven’t saw that their ads are only for US citizens. Thanks for the heads up Olaf
Olaf Lederer
from PHP rules!2007-10-03 11:51:06
Nick, check the FAQ, they allow the ad placement on all sites (even proxies)
menopauseprincess
from http://intga.blogspot.com2007-10-07 09:03:16
I withheld signing up for this when I noticed the section that asked for social security numbers was not secure.
I emailed them regarding this but haven’t yet received a reply.
In these days of identity theft, I am being a bit more cautious with personal information.
Olaf
from Website Templates2007-10-07 15:45:48
I removed the code because, it will not work. The banner need several second to load, to long for a lot of ad zones. (my CTR was lower than 0.1%)
Hodirlan Cristian
from Open The Door2007-12-05 16:01:37
Huh, I`m still using it and after all don`t know if it will work (because i`m from Romania.. not US).. but as they pointed out.. for non-US a CPM payment will be available.
), anyway this is how I managed to write on your website.. good luck
I`m just surprised you didn`t write an article for EntreCard (you use it