Widget Bucks Reviews

Why so many don’t like widget bucks

November 10th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

So if you have done any research at all you will find many reason’s why so many people do not like widget bucks. I will try and cover a few of the complaints here and give my take on them.

1. widget bucks widget seems to load slow: I’ve heard this from many different people. The fact is yes when widget bucks was first launched it was a little slow. When I first loaded it I noticed this as well. Since then new code has been issued and my widgets now load in about a 1.2 seconds. Still not ideal. You want it to load right away. It’s my hope that over the next few months widget bucks works on this a little more and gives us widget that loads a little faster. Overall I feel the load times are exceptable for the sites I have it on.

2. widget bucks has a low CTR: for the people that have been saying this I have to ask what kind of site do you have it on? All the sites I wass able to track back to comments were not product related sites. Not one of them. If you have a widget showing cell phones and other electronic devices on a social site about health care then of course you will have a low CTR no matter what kind of ad placement or traffic you have. If the ads are not relavent to the content on the site then the readers will not be interested in your ads. In those cases I would never put widget bucks on that site. Use Adsense or a CPM program. Kontera is another great one for text based ad links.

3. My earnings are fluctuating before they are finalized: As per the TOS when someone clicks on an ad you are given an estimated CPC. Untill the CPC turns black it will fluctuate. I have noticed around a 10% decrease from when my clicks are in red and when they are in black. I can say after all is said and done on the product based sites that I run widget bucks on I make around 1/3 more with widget bucks then adsense. This is just my results and only after close to a month of tracking.

4. Has anyone been paid yet?: This question I see all over. The answer is NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! I’m tired of seeing that question. read the TOS. You will be paid 45 days after the end of the first month you reach 50 dollars or more. The program just launched in early OCT so know one will see a check until mid December. I can say I do not like waiting the 45 days but that is just because adsense pays after 30. Most affilites don’t pa until 60-90 days. I have many CJ products I sell and my sales always get extended and from the date of sale till I get my check is normally around 60-90 days. Once you get going you will get a check each month so I really don’t see a big deal here. I do like the payout is only 50 dollars.

All in all only you can decide if widget bucks is right for your site. you can always make a small widget and throw it on a site to have a space filler or a little bit of graphics going. I would have to say that for the majority of sites out there widget bucks is currently not a good fit. As the company grows they should have 100’s of more categories and products. Once this happens it will become more and more popular. Hope this helps a few of you out there.