Widget Bucks a well known ad network whose traffic decreasing drastically day by day. This ad network was started in sep 2007. All thought WidgetBucks will be a competitor for Adsense. But now they are in very worst situation. They came with the caption “Ads suck… ours don’t” and they told that “Shopping widgets make you more money!”. But they removed those widget system (i.e., Cost Per Click) in some countries including India. But they replaced C.P.C system with worst C.P.M system which gives nothing for pubshiers. Including this they also provide delayed stats and broken reporting and slow loads and technical problems.

Widget Bucks traffic in the earlier days :

Widget Bucks traffic in 2008 :

Google Ads recently attacked by a Trojan virus.They are replacing the Google ads with an different ads from different ad provider. BitDefender said that “ADVERTISEMENTS placed by Google in web pages are being hijacked by trojan software”.

BitDefender identified this threat as Trojan.Qhost.WU that modifies the virus infected computers.The modified file contains a line that redirecting the host “ pagead2.googlesyndication.com ” which is pointing to an IP of the form 9x.xxx.xxx.xxx instead of 6x.xxx.xxx.xxx, so that the trojan infected computers’ browsers reading ads from the replacement address.

A BitDefender virus analyst said that “This is a serious situation that damages users and alike”. BitDefender company said that “This virus(Trojan.Qhost.WU) is spreading at a “low” level and causing “medium” damage.

Due to this virus webmasters are seriously affected because this virus takes away viewers to a different position so they are loosing their revenue from their websites.

Here is my simple explanation about WidgetBucks

1.PPC for WidgetBucks is very much higher.

2.Ads look High Class and very pleasing.

3.They call the ad unit as widget.

4.There are 117 colors to choose a color for your widget.

5. 160×600,300×250,728×90,468×60 and 660×330 sizes are the available sizes to choose from.

6.There is the choice of selecting your preferred product [ Video Games, Sports & Out Doors, Musical Instruments, Media, Kids & Family, Jewelry & Watches, Home & Garden, Health & Beauty, Camera & Photo, Electronics, Computers, Clothing & Accessories and Cars ] for the ad widget to display on, and there are sub categories in each product.

Using Widget Bucks, make money online fast using pay-per-click shopping widgets.They instantly display the most popular products.

These widgets gives $3-$6 CPM when compared to other ad networks which pay us $2 CPM.

So why late? Click Here to register and make more money online.

Here is the Widget ad how it look likes.

• Self-service, scalable and relevant content that’s free and easy to publish
• Dynamic, contextual widgets act as content (vs. ads) that more effectively targets your users, not the masses
• Dynamic Ad Yield Management matches the best merchant for each product while offering consumers the best price
• MerchSense (patent pending) contextual algorithm automatically targets the right products for your site
• Extensive reporting tools and daily updates; Payouts are monthly
• Complements existing programs, such as Google AdSense
• Over 300 configurations, 256 color schemes and formatted for major IAB standard sizes
• Proprietary analytics, pricing and relevancy engines display buying trends of 100 million shoppers
• Manual configuration also available by category
• Product listings from 30,000 merchants including trusted leading brands

Reporting:

Reporting for impressios and clicks are in real time while the revenue per click is only updated for every 48 to 72 hours.

After contacting regarding the late in updating the revenues, they replied “delay in revenue reporting is due to an auditing process done by the companies who provide the product feeds.”

Here is the alexa graph and control panel screen shot for Widget Bucks, this shows how rapid the people are signing up

Finally they say : Ads suck… ours don’t

Shopping widgets make you more money!