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Widgetbucks creates new CPM ads to serve non-US and Canadian traffic

November 29, 2007 by Tricia

Widgetbucks has again updated their program policy in regard to sites with a good mix of international visitors. In an email sent out earlier today to all of their members they stated:

International CPM Ads

Here’s an upcoming feature. In early December, we will start serving CPM ads to the non-U.S./Canada traffic. This will give you revenue, per impression, for your site visitors who come from other countries. This is designed to help publishers who have a blend of traffic from a variety of countries.

Our system will do the geo-location for you, determining where the visitor is coming from. Then we’ll either show the regular pay-per-click widget (to visitors from the U.S. and Canada) or show an ad that pays per impression (to visitors from other countries). You’ll see a new column, called “CPM Revenue” in your earnings reports.

So it appears that they listened to the concerns or more likely complaints of those who have a good portion of their traffic from non US or Canadian visitors and implemented this new CPM ad system.

Now hopefully they’ll do something about their widget slowing the loading of a site. I had, had Widgetbucks on my main blog Tricia’s Musings, but I only had it up for a few days before I removed it. It didn’t severely slow my page loads but I found that it didn’t load until you reached the portion of the page that the widget was located on and if you were trying to scroll past that point you had to wait until it finished loading. I didn’t like that.

On that site I had the widget code in the middle of my sidebar. I have ads near the top of my sidebars that I can’t move due to my TOS agreement with those companies. I do believe that Widgetbucks probably does best when it’s near the top of a sidebar and loads when the page is first visited. At least it wouldn’t impede a visitors ability to scroll a page if it was near the top and already loaded.

I’ve decided to try Widgetbucks on this site and a few of my other sites again to see what happens.




Filed Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Making Money, Technology News Tagged With: ads, blog, clicks, code, CPM ads, email, non us and canadian traffic, sites, slow loading, US, visitors, widget, Widgetbucks

Changes to Widgetbucks makes it harder for sites with international visitors to earn money

November 18, 2007 by Tricia

I’m very behind in posting on this site about all the wonderful things that I came across at Blogworld and P0stiecon. I’ve been very sick – actually even before I left for Vegas my Crohn’s flared up and it got worse while I was there. Bummer! I missed a lot, but what I did manage to take in was great. I’ve actually just written about a new application called Triggit on my other site WebStyle. You might be interested in signing up for Triggit as you can add Amazon and CJ links on the fly as well as Flicker and Youtube to your posts.

What I wanted to talk about today is Widgetbucks. I’ve just finally gotten around to signing up and from what I hear that’s a good thing because sometime over the next week they won’t be as open about letting just anyone sign up.

I decided to try Widgetbucks on my main blog Tricia’s Musings in the middle right sidebar. It’s very easy to sign up (right now) and create a widget to place on your site. All you need to do is select which category your site falls into, and pick whatever keywords you’d like to have Widgetbucks use to display products from Mpire on your site and tada … you have widget code to place in your blogs sidebar.

I didn’t realize this, but right now they have a signup bonus that puts $25 into your account when you register. Since the payout minimum is $50 this means that just by signing up for Widgetbucks you’re already closer to getting your first payment.

Unfortunately Widgetbucks is changing it’s algorithm and I believe as of this week they will only be counting clicks from US and Canadian visitors. For bloggers who’s majority of site visitors are Canadian or American this won’t make a huge difference in income, however those who have a high percentage of site visitors from other countries the clicks won’t count.

As a result I probably won’t add Widgetbucks to this site. I just looked at my recent stats and only 54% of my visitors are from the US and Canada. Actually all my blogs have quite an international audience. The stats for my main blog which I thought had mainly North American visitors shows that of my recent visitors only 68% are from the US and Canada. Now if Widgetbucks would include visitors from the UK I’d have closer to 80% of my visitors clicks count.

So the moral of this story is that Widgetbucks can certainly help you monetize your blog quickly and easily but those with mainly US and Canadian audiences will do best. Still, if you want that initial $25 sign up now!

Filed Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Making Money, Sales and Marketing, Software, Webmaster Tips Tagged With: 25 signup bonus, Affiliate, algorithm, blog, Blogger, blogs, Blogworld, bonus, Canadian, changes, clicks, code, easy, Keyword, monetize, payout, Postiecon, posting, referral, US, visitors, widget, Widgetbucks

Blogging convention here I come

November 5, 2007 by Tricia

So who’s going to Las Vegas later this week for Blogworld and or P0stiecon?

I plan to attend both events and hope to meet up with some of the bloggers that I’ve gotten to know over the last couple of years. I also hope to get something out of the discussions that I plan to attend so that I can learn how to make my blogs more successful, but mainly I’m looking at this as a chance to travel to a city that I’ve never been to before and as a way to meet up with friends and network a little bit.

If you are attending either convention what’s your goal?

Filed Under: Blogging, Technology News, Travel and Vacation Tagged With: blog, blogs, Blogworld, discussions, fellow bloggers, improve blogs, Las Vegas, meet, network, Postiecon, speeches, success, travel

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