Why?
Because it's their first birthday and, if you sign up, you'll get $25 - and free money is always nice!
Of course there are conditions. I'll let them explain, this is what they say:
"To celebrate our first anniversary, we're reinstating our sign-up bonus that we offered during the first three months for all new publishers: $25 bonus when your account reaches $50."But be quick as the bonus is only applicable, as I understand it, to new affiliates for the month of October.
Okay, let me give my honest opinion about Widget Bucks.
On the plus side I have received $172.21 from them and this was all paid on schedule, no problems in this direction. I've also got another $32.54 in the kitty - payments are made by PayPal once $50 is achieved.
So that's okay.
What I did previously find though was that:
(1) Some of the widgets slowed down the loading of my blogs.
(2) The return on CPM (cost per thousand impressions) for international impressions i.e. non USA is very low. However, in saying this, some widgets are based on a pay per click basis and this, depending on the products, is much better.
You can see what I last wrote about WidgetBucks on my post Money Making Spring Clean. Also note the comment on this from Dean Jutilla of WidgetBucks.
I actually took all of the widgets off my blogs a while back but I'm trying them out again now. I have found that the ones I am using at the moment (see header ad on Celebrity Insider) are loading much quicker now.
There is also a bigger choice of widgets. As well as Shopping ones there are also now 'Local' and 'Travel' widgets. These come in a variety of sizes.
I'm actually trying out the Local version which, to quote them, gives, 'relevant, real-time local content, such as weather, gas prices, top local businesses and restaurants.'
I'll leave it at that but, if you are thinking about joining WidgetBucks, it's probably a good time to join to get the $25.
Also, as I'm being honest, there is a referral program for introducing new members. It's not over generous but these are the terms:
"... you will receive a 5 percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people you refer. You'll receive this 5 percent for the full 12 months after the new member joins."In other words if you joined and earned $100 I as the referrer would get $5.
And that's WidgetBucks!
Good luck,
Mike.
