WidgetBucks.com or WidgetSucks?    

When I first came across WidgetBucks.com in mid-2007, I was pretty excited. They were doing new things with advert presentations using interactive flash banners. I could easily integrate their ads as small widgets into the sides of our sites, and it seemed like they would likely produce better than traditional non-interactive ads. They offered a sign up bonus, once you earned 50.00 they would add a $20.00 bonus to your payment. I thought it was worth a shot to test them and let it run up to $50.00 in earnings, where I’d break down the numbers and see how they really compared with the other networks I had been running in the same positions.

After about 2 weeks of running several ad sizes in different positions, total earnings were around $7.00 compared with what would have normally earned 150-200.00. After realizing it would take months to reach $50.00 I ripped those ads down faster than a Palin supporter yanking Obama signs out of yards on Election Eve.

A little over a year later, I am once again reviewing WidgetBucks site and ad layouts. It looks like they have made some major progress. I have read a few places that certain members of their team were replaced because of quality control issues with payouts, etc. It seems like a majority of their original publishers are still avoiding them. I’m going to chew off all my fingernails and then decide if I should give these guys another chance to rip me a new one.

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