WidgetBucks: Result Of Money Making Test

On the 4th of February I wrote that I was doing another money making test on WidgetBucks - see my post WidgetBucks Money Making Test Re-Visited.

I've reached a quick conclusion and have removed the WidgetBucks widget from my testing blog.

Why?

Two reasons:

(1) Their widget was holding up the loading of the blog I was testing it on. As we know, if a blog or website takes a while to load people go elsewhere and don't hang on for more than about 8 seconds. Frankly I want every visitor I can get. As I keep repeating over and over like a parrot: Traffic = Money. And I'm in blogging to make money.

(2) The second reason: Because of the stats on the right: 4982 page impressions = income 42 cents! Not really much more need be said about that, but I will!

WidgetBucks said on their blog: 'publishers (are) earning more with YieldSense without lifting a finger.' That's why I did a second money making test.

Well this isn't what I've found in fact it's the opposite!

If you compare this test with the big test I carried out last year, see my post How Much Should You Earn For 1 Million Page Impressions, you'll see that this time the rate has gone down from roughly 11 cents per 1000 to 8 cents per 1000.

So bye bye WidgetBucks. As I said back in November: All that glitters is not gold.

Good luck,
Mike.

Money Making Test: ei42 with Free Website

This is something I'm testing and it's a bit different from the usual money making affiliate program. The only snag is that at the present time it is for the UK only. Other countries will follow in due course and I'll let you know when this happens.

The company is called ei42 - though I'm not sure why as yet!

So what's it all about?
The easy answer is shopping!

But not at just one store. At the moment there are 1512 stores and shops on the Internet to choose from. And these are the big names in the UK such as Argos, HMV, Woolworth, Currys, Comet, Sky Digital, Waterstone's, eBay, Amazon, Littlewoods Direct, WH Smith, Boots, Superdrug, Carphone Warehouse, Virgin Holidays and so on and so on.

So stores where most of us shop.

When you join you get your own standard website - here's mine: Mike's Mission Shop.

As I understand it you make commission in two ways:

(1) Purchases made on your own website/shop - including cash back on your own purchases.
(2) You earn a percentage on sales generated by people that you introduce - and this is on seven levels. So yes it is network marketing (which is perfectly legal, when products are involved).

Seven levels means: People you introduce, people they introduce, people they introduce and so on for seven levels.

Needless to say it's all free to join and you don't have to buy something yourself to qualify for payments. Though most of us probably will because of the cash back payments.

I can't give commission rates as they vary from shop to shop.

The positives, as I see it, are that your own free website links to all of the 1,512 shops - which in the main are major, well known outlets.

I won't go on any longer as you can see the full info on their website. I think it's worth a punt, especially at the present time, because most of us, and the people we know, will shop at these major stores anyway.


I'll keep you updated with how things go, any success, snags and so on. Obviously, having only just joined, I can't guarantee that this will be a success. As per usual time will tell.

Good luck,
Mike.

P.S. And there are usually 'special offers' as well. I noticed, for example, House of Fraser have £10 off first purchase, £5 off at Needapresent.com, 70% off boxsets at HMV, 10% off at Bodyshop and so on.