WidgetBucks : A Promising Ad Network

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Over the last couple of months there’s been a lot written about new ad network - WidgetBucks. As with any new player in the ads market, there has a lot of varied opinions shared about them and a lot are skeptics. This new entrant promises a better conversion of your traffic.

Here’s some advantages:
1. You are paid for both CPM and PPC. And when they say CPM(Cost Per Thousand Impressions), they are claiming that they pay as much as $3-$6 CPM. That’s almost three times the traditional ad networks. PPC (Pay-Per-Click) is paid at a high of $0.45.
2. You get $25 sign-up bonus and that’s halfway to the $50 payout.
3. Rich Media ads. No boring texts.
4. Affiliate programs. You get 10% of your referred members for full 12 months!
5. Can run with adsense.
6. Easy Sign-Up, Easy Setup.
7. Pays thru PayPal.

So who are behind WidgetBucks? Here’s a quote from Darren of Problogger, here’s what Matt Hulett (CEO of WidgetBucks) has to say.

WidgetBucks was created by Mpire.com , the online meta-shopping service that brings together all the most popular online marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon, Shopping.com, Wal-Mart, Target, Gap, and thousands more — into one single site. We blend all that historical pricing information with our pricing analytics and other proprietary technologies to create what we like to call the “Kelly Blue Book” for online products. We are able to tell people what they can expect to pay for that product they are interested in — and then help them take the next step in buying it. Mpire has been around since 2005 — and after originally focusing on offering eBay selling tools, we turned buyer-focused just over a year ago. Today, Mpire.com is getting between 800,000 - 900,000 unique visitors a month. So WidgetBucks fits into our strategy of distributing our pricing analytics across the Web, almost like thousands of little mini-Mpire’s being hosted on publishers’ sites.

However, there are also a lot of people that says it is a scam. SEO.PH
has some threads
. There’s a lot more in DigitalPoint Forum. I think that’s normal for every new entrants. With all the things said and posted everywhere, they are all something that we’ll have to see later.

I signed-up for it the other week and started using it only yesterday. I’m using it now in at least two of the sites that I maintain. So far, adsense still provides me a better income but maybe that’s because my adsense placement is better than my widgets that are primarily placed on the sidebars.