Now and again I look at various money making programs, which I have running on my blogs, and decide if they are actually worth continuing with. A sort of Spring clean but this time in Summer.One I'm about to remove from most of my blogs is WidgetBucks who, as far as I'm concerned, have always underperformed.
Take last month, with their CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) my return was poor.
On the blogs I ran Widget Bucks, in June, I had 48,119 page impressions and this made me the princely sum of $7.04 and for what they call 'International Impressions' I had further 28,666 impressions which made me a derisory 30c.
This definitely isn't a good return.
Now a lot of nice things have been written about WidgetBucks, sometimes by high earning bloggers, though I notice that one who praises is also sponsored by them. Hmmmm.
One important aspect, at least to me, is that by removing their widgets one of my celeb blogs now loads much, much quicker. The widgets made the blog very sluggish to load which I found annoying. So that's a definite bonus.
As I have written before I don't really rate widgets in general as money makers whether they be from WidgetBucks, Amazon or whoever.
As I see it they only make money if the widget ads tie in exactly with a defined niche. Cameras on Photography blogs for example. On blogs such as this and indeed my celebrity blogs they don't work to any worthwhile level.
Again, as I've said previously, I feel the best earners on general non specific blogs are text ads, especially if these are included in posts.
Going back to WidgetBucks, in fairness I must add that I have received $172.21 from them but this is over an eight month period and includes a $25 signing on bonus. Also they say on their blog that there will now be 'more revenue from European traffic.'
Now, of course, I need to find another good money maker as a replacement, and probably for Voxant as well. Any suggestions? If so please leave info in the comments - thanks.
Good luck,
Mike.
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