Specialization is for insects

Recently, a new Pay Per Click provider showed up, it is called widgetBucks.com. I would not even link to those people.

WidgetBucks.com titles says “ADs sucks, but our do not ..”. Basically, they have nicely designed widget that has links to products, mainly for Amazon.com. Their widget is quite heavy, it will slow your page download time.

As I spend significant amount of time everyday on Digital Point forums, I read that many web masters find widgetbucks.com paying far away more than adsense. That was few days after their company started providing ADs. Well, I kept reading positive reviews about it, and I decided to give it a shot. I was skeptic about it, but it worth giving it a shot.

I went to their site, I read their terms and conditions and then applied. I added their widget to one of my highest traffic web sites, which gets around half million page views per month. My first placement was combined with ADsense, it was small rectangle in quite bad location in the page. I started making around 10 cents per click, which is much better than adsense for that site (it is quite poor niche). That widget was music, I decided to replace it with electronics widget, since I want to make more money from these widgets. I did, and I started making around 33 cents per click. I was making around 40-50 USD per day from them.

Well, as I was sitting in the Leavy library fourth floor thinking about it, I realized that it is too good to be true. My traffic is mainly from middle east, and this traffic will not converge to money. I kept it and I was really suspicious.

I realized the widgetbucks.com nice team edit my earning later to reduce it! Hard to believe, but they do that with everyone. They reduce my clicks to 8 cents (from 33 cents). That was still fine, it is still paying for me more than Google Adsense.

Recently, I decided to remove the music widget, since I replaced it by the electronics widget. I went to their site, and I deleted it, and guess what!?! WidgetBucks.com deleted the widget earning!!!! Wooow, they even do not track clicks well, if I decided to remove widget?! I realized that they are a joke or big scam. I decided to give it a shot and call their Head Quarters, and I did many times. And, Guess what? They did not reply at all!

I sent them an email to ask for clarification, and they replied by banning my account. I strongly believe that WidgetBucks.com (I call it WidgetSucks.com) is a big scam or a funny joke. They did not pay to any one, as they pay after 90+ days. As such, do not bother trying those guys.

Google Adsense program is fair enough, they give you what you worth, and they take what they worth.

Conclusions:

• WidgetBucks is new site, and never ever paid to anyone, so do not take risk and try them.
• Adsense is stable program for the our lovely search engine; Google! Stay with it.
• I am not the only one who has that attitude from WidgetBucks, google it and see.