Widgetbucks Sign-Up Bonus of 25.00 Ends January 15, 2008- Will This Affect Promotion?
The newest way to monetize your blog, Widgetbucks.com , has been running a promotional offer to new publishers. Widgetbucks is another payment by click program for bloggers and site owners. You are paid when site visitor clicks a Widgetbucks ad. Currently when you sign up 25.00 is automatically deposited into your account. You also receive 10% of your referral earnings for the next year. This will change January 15, 2008.
Widgetbucks is Stopping it Sign-Up Bonus Program
Effective January 15 there will be no 25.00 bonus just for signing up. They also will be reducing referral commission from 10% to 5%. If you have made links in your blog you may want to change.
If you have not all ready signed up- then do it now to get your 25.00 sign-up bonus . Widgetbucks Sign-up Bonus link.
Why sign-up? I write more extensively about Widgetbucks in my post, 10 Resolutions That Will Make Your Blog Earn More Money This Year.
Will this affect the way you promote Widgetbucks?
It won’t change the way I promote or not.I think it won’t for me. Widgetbucks does well and well enough for me to mention as alternative revenue source. They had the right idea getting bloggers with “make money blogging” type sites to promote for them by offering a a referral commission of 10% . The 25.00 bonus gives them a reason to sign up . Paypal did the same thing when they first came on the scene- offering $20.00 to referrers and referees on sign-up. Ebay moms flocked to it like wildfire.
I do think that sign-ups up for Widgetbucks will drop off dramatically when they discontinue the $25.00 bonus. I will mention Widgetbucks as much as as before however the conversion rate is sure to plummet.
Best Ways To Use Widgetbucks
I have found it most effective on a product based site. Although if your blog has a strong theme you may also have some room for play; i.e. Widgetbucks has a “green living” category and this can be paired on posts or blogs with a related theme- a natural living site for example.
Match Your Posts With Ads
I spend a bit of time matching ads blocks with posts. I have found the CTR to be so-so and the payment per click to be very good. In some case better then Adsense. I was pleasantly surprised how much money I made last month.
Typically I have placed widgetbucks ads in spots where I might have an Amazon Widget or on a blog where my Adsense ads are all over the place, With niche blogs my Adsense ads are consistent and CTR very high. When the blogs is less niche and more broad the Adsense ads will start to vary widely and Widgetbucks and Amazon both allow you to narrow down the type of products you want to display.
If you are disappointed with Amazon revenue or your Adsense ads have low CTR when embedded into post ( i.e. below 1%) then I would absolutely give this a try.
The sign up was very easy and took minutes.
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