Comments on: Product Review of Blog/Content Site Monetization Widget: WidgetBucks http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/ BizExcellerated Internet Marketing: Achieve mastery in blogging, affiliate marketing, social traffic generation at Andrew Wee Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:12:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sean Crotty http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-263170 Sean Crotty Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:39:07 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-263170 Hey Andrew, Thanks. We're getting huge adoption and are happy to keep in close touch with our users. We've just today started showing an RPC metric, since that's what people were asking for. The 48-72 hour delay in revenue reporting is due to the audit process from our feed provider. We're talking a lot with them to get that reduced so people can have faster numbers. I've requested the 250x250 size and it is being designed now. We're also expanding the list of available categories - the initial list was picked by what our beta testers requested. Open to other requests. Thanks, Sean, Hey Andrew, Thanks. We’re getting huge adoption and are happy to keep in close touch with our users. We’ve just today started showing an RPC metric, since that’s what people were asking for. The 48-72 hour delay in revenue reporting is due to the audit process from our feed provider. We’re talking a lot with them to get that reduced so people can have faster numbers. I’ve requested the 250×250 size and it is being designed now. We’re also expanding the list of available categories - the initial list was picked by what our beta testers requested. Open to other requests. Thanks, Sean,

]]> By: analogstuff http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-260571 analogstuff Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:28:27 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-260571 I have tried widget bucks for about 3 days now, i got around 7 clicks and when it comes to money it is zero dollars. I dont know whether they some more time to update or some thing like that. But i will wait for about a week to decide whether to keep them on my blog or not. The problem with widget bucks is that u dont have too many options with respect to the ad size very limited. I personally like to have 250x250 which is my favorite. Let see how it goes. I have tried widget bucks for about 3 days now, i got around 7 clicks and when it comes to money it is zero dollars. I dont know whether they some more time to update or some thing like that. But i will wait for about a week to decide whether to keep them on my blog or not. The problem with widget bucks is that u dont have too many options with respect to the ad size very limited. I personally like to have 250×250 which is my favorite. Let see how it goes.

]]> By: Rita Wilhelm http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-258388 Rita Wilhelm Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:37:34 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-258388 Hi Andrew, I just placed the WidgetBucks ad on my Ning community at http://www.PetBoogaloo.ning.com . I must say that I like the ads it serves up. They are actually relatively entertaining to watch. (Google Adsense is boring in comparison). It seems that they serve up ads mainly in the computer, electronics, video, and camera type of niches. I was lucky that they had an option for the pet market. I have several other sites where I'd would have liked to add WidgetBucks, but their other ad categories don't fit my markets. I'd like to see something in the toy sector, or business to business sector. From their control panel, you can select the category of ads you want, or you can have their spider crawl your site and decide what kind of ads to serve up. I'm not sure their spider is as robust as Google, where the ads are really tied to the content. I tried it on my toy site, but the camera ads kept showing up. So I decided to just keep Adsense on that for now. I think it's smart of them to offer the referral program. They should make it a 2-tier program. Rita Hi Andrew,

I just placed the WidgetBucks ad on my Ning community at http://www.PetBoogaloo.ning.com . I must say that I like the ads it serves up. They are actually relatively entertaining to watch. (Google Adsense is boring in comparison).

It seems that they serve up ads mainly in the computer, electronics, video, and camera type of niches. I was lucky that they had an option for the pet market.

I have several other sites where I’d would have liked to add WidgetBucks, but their other ad categories don’t fit my markets. I’d like to see something in the toy sector, or business to business sector.
From their control panel, you can select the category of ads you want, or you can have their spider crawl your site and decide what kind of ads to serve up. I’m not sure their spider is as robust as Google, where the ads are really tied to the content. I tried it on my toy site, but the camera ads kept showing up. So I decided to just keep Adsense on that for now.

I think it’s smart of them to offer the referral program. They should make it a 2-tier program.

Rita

]]> By: Rita Wilhelm http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-258055 Rita Wilhelm Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:50:14 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-258055 I just added WidgetBucks to my Ning site at http://www.PetBoogaloo.ning.com . The 'Pet' category was one of the offerings that WidgetBucks had. I have several other sites where I would have liked to include WidgetBucks, but their current niche offerings are still a little limited. WidgetBucks mostly serves up ads in the electronics/computer/camera niches. I'd like to see something available in the toy sector, or something related to business-to-business services. Of course, they are still new and growing. I will say that the ads look great. It's actually fun watching the ads. I just added WidgetBucks to my Ning site at http://www.PetBoogaloo.ning.com . The ‘Pet’ category was one of the offerings that WidgetBucks had.

I have several other sites where I would have liked to include WidgetBucks, but their current niche offerings are still a little limited. WidgetBucks mostly serves up ads in the electronics/computer/camera niches. I’d like to see something available in the toy sector, or something related to business-to-business services. Of course, they are still new and growing.

I will say that the ads look great. It’s actually fun watching the ads.

]]> By: Chris Jacobson http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-257807 Chris Jacobson Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:00:40 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-257807 It'll be interesting to see how fast WidgetBucks picks up. By the looks of things, it won't be long. It’ll be interesting to see how fast WidgetBucks picks up. By the looks of things, it won’t be long.

]]> By: Andrew Wee http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-257293 Andrew Wee Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:59:50 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-257293 Great to see a company proactively address feedback and tweak their systems on-the-fly, Sean. What would be interest would be revshare for the lifetime of the referred downline, and possibly a 2-tier revshare system, maybe toggled at 10% for tier 1 and 5% for tier 2, the viral aspect of the system will really take off then. [It's pretty impressive to see you responding at 407am EST too!] Great to see a company proactively address feedback and tweak their systems on-the-fly, Sean.

What would be interest would be revshare for the lifetime of the referred downline, and possibly a 2-tier revshare system, maybe toggled at 10% for tier 1 and 5% for tier 2, the viral aspect of the system will really take off then.

[It's pretty impressive to see you responding at 407am EST too!]

]]> By: Sean Crotty http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-257215 Sean Crotty Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:07:34 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/blogging/product-review-of-blogcontent-site-monetization-widget-widgetbucks/#comment-257215 We’ve been listening to your feedback as WidgetBucks takes off and have decided to respond rapidly by improving our Referral Program. Mpire will now pay a 10% Referral Fee on commissions for a year. If someone you refer earns $100, you get $10, etc. The new details are going up on our site now. Thanks for the suggestions. Sean VP Product Marketing, Mpire We’ve been listening to your feedback as WidgetBucks takes off and have decided to respond rapidly by improving our Referral Program. Mpire will now pay a 10% Referral Fee on commissions for a year. If someone you refer earns $100, you get $10, etc. The new details are going up on our site now.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Sean
VP Product Marketing, Mpire

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