Make Money With WidgetBucks

WidgetBucks has just launched a new widget based advertising network that displays shopping ads on your blog. From a blogger’s perspective, what looks pretty good about the service is that you get paid whenever a reader clicks on the widget and visits the advertiser. Yes, that’s right, with WidgetBucks PPC, you get paid when readers click on the ads; they do not have to make a purchase for you to earn money. WidgetBucks claims that earnings are better than $2 CPM, with their own tests showing returns of $3 to $6 CPM.

WidgetBucks is easy to install, and is ready for most blogging platforms, such as WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type.

Customization

It is only early days at the moment, and customization is limited to some degree, Widgets come in 117 colors and 5 sizes:

• Skyscraper 160 x 600
• Rectangle 300 x 250
• Leaderboard 728 x 90
• Full banner 468 x 60
• Custom 660 x 330

You can see 2 examples below.

You can choose to target the ads to one of 13 different categories, most of which have sub-categories. Alternatively, you can select ‘MerchSense’ which crawls your page and finds relevant products to include in the widget based upon your content.

$25 Signup Bonus

As an added bonus, if you sign up for WidgetBucks now, they will deposit $25 into your account. WidgetBox have set a payout threshold of $50, so just by signing up you are already half way there. If the CPM is as good as their tests indicate, it may well be a good source of extra income for your blog.

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