WidgetBucks and Rumors

[GettyCash]

They just posted this on their official blog.

WidgetBucks Is Not Area 51

Seems like there's a lot of chatter going on around WidgetBucks right now, and some of it is not accurate. If you look under the hood a bit, most of the inaccuracies have largely been precipitated by those who have a vested interest in competing products. Hey, I'm all for talking up your product -- but let's at least try do it with a little integrity. I personally feel that execution and performance speak for themselves.

Now to dispel the rumors:

First of all, no, WidgetBucks was not banned by Google SERPs. I recognize this bursts a great Google-smack down storyline here, guys. Sorry. We had a simple server configuration oversight as it pertained to page redirects which caused the Google Crawler (GoogleBot) to fail when attempting to index our widgetbucks.com site. (see screen shot). We've fixed the issue at this point, but naturally it takes a little time before we begin showing up in the SERPs.

http://www4.mpire.com/widgetbucks/images/SEORedirectIssue.jpg

The second misperception relates to back-links and why we removed them. Our original intent behind including back-links was pretty plain and simple: if a user did not have the Flash Player installed, we wanted to show a link to WidgetBucks, and disabling javascript does nothing more than reproduce the No-Flash-Player case, since javascript is used to load the flash player. We removed the back-link based on publisher feedback about not being allowed to modify the HTML to place a “no-follow” for SEO purposes. So rather than grant permission to modify the HTML we provide, we simply removed the back-link. Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists out there -- Area 51 does not reside within WidgetBucks. :-)

Have a great weekend, all.

Matt Hulett
CEO
Mpire (creators of WidgetBucks)

[sandyfeet]

Yeah, lots of people with conspiracy theories on this forum.

Thanks for posting the update.

[jimkarter]

Do you know whom those are talking about when they saymost of the inaccuracies have largely been precipitated by those who have a vested interest in competing products

Shoemoney.:D

[thsadmin]

Yeah I am not even bothering any more to visit the negative threads here, unless of course something bad happens to me, it just cracks me up the group effect - one person has a winge and banter and all of a sudden it's a scam.

All these theories are rediculous - most are from people who tried for a day or just heard a story - or even read what someone else has wrote.

My earnings and stats speak for themselves and until I have a negative backlash then I am not complaining or getting involved in the WB flaming sessions - most of which are from Non-English sites or admittedly clicked their own ad's.

I'm not fazed if webmasters are going to pull the pin during a campaign - just means free publicity and conversions - hence dollars to WB to support us loyal webmasters.

[jimkarter]

Yeah I am not even bothering any more to visit the negative threads here, unless of course something bad happens to me, it just cracks me up the group effect - one person has a winge and banter and all of a sudden it's a scam.

All these theories are rediculous - most are from people who tried for a day or just heard a story - or even read what someone else has wrote.

My earnings and stats speak for themselves and until I have a negative backlash then I am not complaining or getting involved in the WB flaming sessions - most of which are from Non-English sites or admittedly clicked their own ad's.

I'm not fazed if webmasters are going to pull the pin during a campaign - just means free publicity and conversions - hence dollars to WB to support us loyal webmasters.
Right take I would say.

[suraja]

Even the misspelling widgebucks.com (http://widgebucks.com) has better SERP than widgetbucks.com (http://widgetbucks.com)

[jimkarter]

Even the misspelling widgebucks.com (http://widgebucks.com) has better SERP than widgetbucks.com (http://widgetbucks.com)

My blog has go the second and third ranking for the keyword Widget Bucks keyword.:d

[thsadmin]

Yeah I noticed that Jim ... Nice work - I currently have 2 pages with a CPM of over $10 - Woot.

Still no dilemas here, just have to wait now for december.

Do ppl outside the US have to submit tax details ?

[geomark]

I think Matt Hulett should call out Shoemoney for the scumbag FUD posting he was doing.

[thsadmin]

LoL I am not messing with the big guys, all I can say is don't believe everything we here or read.