WidgetBucks is Slowly Going Downhill Literally

Yeah will be interesting - earlier in the piece people were getting suspended consantly for bizarre reasons, one of them was a high CTR.

Let us know how you go with them and the high CTR.

 

Many people warned that the High Pay Rates were just to entice webmasters.
I have only put them on 2 of my sites to test them because really don't think they are legit. Do they really think webmasters will stay with them once they decrease rates so much and webmasters see they were tricked?

 

My stats for 11/3/07 are fine now, still in red though. However i have 0 impression for yesterday ?

 

Yeah seems to be reporting again - apart from the fact we lost about 12 hours of revenue and impressions.

 

I've still got the "Impressions/Clicks reporting currently delayed." message in the control panel

Overall i am very impressed with widgetbucks on some proxy sites i have, proxies can be hard to monetize if you have been smartpriced with other ad networks.

Mixing widgetbucks with the other ad networks really helps the overall income...my 2c

 

yeah - their stats right now are wack. i've seen my income for today be reported at $0, then $10, then $3....something is up - yesterday was down a lot from normal.

and i don't pay any attention to the 'red' stats except for the # of clicks. the $/click i get after going 'black' stays pretty steady (at a much lower rate than the red) so i just estimate my income for that day based on the of total clicks. haven't seen any sort of changes in the income after they've gone black on my account.

 

Just wondering, have you been watching the updates of your revenue? I'm doing fine "day by day" but when I check back, the updates usually drop my revenue 70%...

I also deleted a widget... I can't see the stats for that widget anymore. Frustrating the hell out of me.

 

Yup I thin 70% is a fair estimation - the only CPC or CPM that doesn't change for me are the really low performing Widgets.

Anything above average ($6cpm) gets slugged by WB.

 

I think it depends of your conversion rate.
So if there is search engine traffic then rpc will be better.
For me $0.20-0.40.

 

Nah I don't think so - maybe that's what they will lead us to believe, because the same traffic is on my other widgets with less impressions and cpm - yet they stayed about the same and within the $6 CPM range.

I don't mind - I was using the Merchsense - so I thought bugger it I will try the highest CPC widget and maybe that will keep my CPC a bit higher after reductions - so far today (even with the major stuff up earlier in the day - by WB) I am already above yestys stats.

 

At this time if a person who is willling to join WB will clearly withdraw seeing what has happened with Jxstatic.

 

My WidgetBucks is still going fine.

 

Goodmorning DP.
I wanted to start the say by saying i have not given up on WB$, they change around a lot so who's to say my original stats wont pop back up again?

Every time i see my balance, its shifting around... but it's no big deal really... unless you're putting money into it somehow.. i don't think newcomers should be discouraged... just in case WB$ is actually legitimate and they are actually willing to pay out 300$+

Sorry if none of that made sense... it's still early here.

 

Is this part of a disturbing trend of new ad networks popping up and offering fantastic rates to generate hype and then "correcting" them later when they have to cut the check? It seems like every new "Adsense killer" is doing this. That's fraud in my book.

 

Widgetbucks is a SCAM

 

No need to yell!

I believe I will get paid December 15th.

 

@Thsadmin If so,never mind anyway.If you have smartpriced adsense on 2-3 cpm,then 6 cmp from widgetbucks sound like good adition.

For instance if you have had 10 cpm before and now have 6+3=9 you are still earning 9

 

My stats are back and my red $0.41 click turned into a black $0.46

Last month was the same, i love their audited stats

 

On one of my sites, I have had close to 5K impressions and made just over $2.


That doesn't fit into your logic of the $3-6 CPM.

 

I've been google-slapped... smartpriced... etc by the big G. They are always adjusting my rates lower and lower.

I remain confident that running WidgetBucks to compliment my Adsense earnings will pay off in the end.