December 2007
Widget Bucks CPM Ads for International Traffic
Filed Under NetMarketing
It’s a very welcome news that WidgetBucks is somehow reconsidering their position regarding the non-US and Canada traffic. Just the other day, they announced in their official blog that they’ll start offering country-specific CPM ads. In that way, you’ll still be able to monetize your international traffic using WidgetBucks. This would also mean that you’ll no longer need to filter your traffic as discussed on my earlier post since WidgetBucks will do that automatically for you.
Here’s some quote from their blog.
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. All ads are restricted against adult or other suggestive themes.
Below is the complete post. Kudos to MPire for listening to the concern of their members. It’s definitely a plus point for them and I will again consider placing a widget on one of my sites.
And by the way, I only learned about it when a certain Dean Jutilla from Mpire(the company behind WidgetBucks) commented on my earlier post. I’m surprised and somewhat honored that somebody from Mpire has noticed my blog.
Avoiding Accidental Clicks in Adsense
Filed Under NetMarketing
Note: This is a contributed post in Taong Grasa Blog.
It’s a good thing that google changed the way their ads were clicked. Before, even the background of the ads are clickable and that leads to accidental clicks. I myself has fall into this and was afraid that my adsense account be suspended or terminated because of that. I think it happened thrice already.
With the new format, it is only the title and the url that’s clickable. The background, text and white spaces are no longer clickable. More than the user experience, it would benefit the advertisers more.
Finally, this change won’t just improve user experience on your site; it
benefits advertisers as well. We currently monitor clicks on Google ads for
accidental clicks, and the format change complements our monitoring system by
further ensuring advertisers only pay for meaningful clicks. By reducing
accidental clicks, we hope to increase advertiser campaign value and
satisfaction, encouraging additional spend and facilitating higher monetization
for all publishers.
For the complete adsense announcement about this, click the lick below.
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/11/accidental-clicks-fade-into-background.html
WidgetBucks Filters Traffic
Filed Under NetMarketingA recent decision by WidgetBucks has affected most of its members. Clicks from traffic coming from outside United States and Canada are no longer counted. It’s a big blow to all of its members especially those whose traffic primarily comes from their own country (i.e, local social network, clubs, etc). However, I think it is a bitter pill for WidgetBucks to take since their advertisers are also complaining. Some other companies has done that before. The main reason is that most people from outside the two countries doesn’t really buy goods online.
A Filipino SEO expert has shared his knowledge to filter the traffic on your site, too. Here’s his tip on how to do that. By using his technique, widgetbucks widgets will only appear if the visitor is from US and Canada. For outside the those countries, you can show other ads. You can use adsense if you have one.
Well, if you are still banned from adsense, WidgetBucks is still a good alternative. For me, the change has significantly lowered its edge against adsense. I still have widgetbucks in an inner page of one of my sites. But that’s just it.
