if they do pay in december, all of the people who are waiting will join the network. That will be a lot more people and the network will just become stronger because of it.
Yep, There're many people out there are waiting for WidgetBucks to make their first payouts in December then they will join the network.
Yes december is the most important month for widget bucks. i hope they will success. But hidden backlink is a big minus for WB.
I think Google is getting afraid of their competitors. their adsense program sucks. it has turned in to a penny ad revenue program.
Less than 0.00001% people would search Google for "WidgetBucks" but Google should be a fair play at least. I just visited WidgetBucks and don't see any reasons for them to be banned for their domain name words, like "John Chow" got before. I don't like WidgetBucks personally but I think they shouldn't deserve this. Google yet no banned them for Advertise via Google Adwords, don't filter any words against them like "Better than Adsense" but kick them out from organic listing, manually edit in my opinion. How accurate of search results could be trusted then? Since Google has unfair advantage and use it in a wrong way.
That is surely not the reason. That ads was not run by Widget Bucks. That ad was from a publishers to get some attension and get some referrals.
Search for Widgetbucks in Google.... That is great, the "did you mean wetbacks" in google!!! Where I come from, wetbacks is slang for fake/counterfeit money!!! I wonder if google have done this on purpose!
guys, chill out. WidgetBucks did something against Google's search policy. If you create blind links Google will ban you. Period. Stop with all these conspiracy theories. WidgetBucks shouldn't have done something so careless...and Google has the right to punish them for trying to cheat like that.
Does anyone besides me know how to tell if a site is banned in Google?? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...=Yxk&q=http://www.widgetbucks.com&btnG=Search Results 1 - 2 of 2 for http://www.widgetbucks.com Seems not but everyone ^ should try and Google search the URL before posting a site is banned.
Mmm I ran the search - bizarre results just returns the flash widgets - stand alone widget LoL look : http://www.widgetbucks.com/widgets/wbtw120x600.swf and hey this aint no conspiracy guys, we're just playing on Googles Monopoly Board that's all - when they crack the sh1ts they just pack up the game and move on to the next ....
I don't have one !! Nah I didn't find the index page for widget bucks - just found it strange that the flash was found.
You bothered me with your being bothered about the home page being missing here is one reason I can see <script src='/script/s_code_PRODUCTION.13329.js' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> Seems they might have tossed the bot into an infinite loop looking for a script at '
I thought that the hidden links purpose was for people that don't have flash capabilities turned on, I use a few other widgets Like Swicki clouds and they just place the links under the tag cloud - pretty effective for back links - I don't know why WB doesn't just put a text link underneath (the widget) with our affiliate link instead.
I'm looking at the WidgetBucks code and there is no hidden link that I can see. WidgetBucks links back to its site & adserver just like Google does for Adwords / Adsense and Yahoo does for YSM / YPN. Again more people running around making up BS to drive traffic to their sites....and whoever said the WB was suffering Dupe Content does not understand the difference between a filter & a penalty or SEO.....
Yeah but lets face it. Sites do this all the time and it take forever for Google to Ban some of them. Google could have definately been looking for a reason.