Normally an advertising company would have some counter-measures in place to identify and prevent click fraud. Not only would it build trust with advertisers, but publishers would not be penalized for something they essentially have no control of. It's a two way street and WidgetBucks is smack in the middle. It's their network, so they should assume some responsibility for protecting everyones interests - which helps protect theirs as well. Too bad WidgetBucks does not have click fraud counter-measures. The negative publicity and loss of high traffic sites publishing their ads will hurt in the long run.
Yes, there is the comment problem as a publisher. Those PPC advertisement provider can banned your account without any reason, or just invalid click without any proof.
A n00bie has to learn some time: Don't join affiliate programs when they first come out. Wait three months to see if they really are good. None of you guys would of been screwed if you had done that! I joined...but never placed the ads on sites.
i too dint put ads in all my sites..just put a small banner in a very content rich site!!!I got 84$ last month with very less CTR...now they banned me saying i put ads without content lol...thank god it dint put it in all lose ...my loss limited to 84$...
Well I recently had my account suspended, as I put the widgets on a non-english site ( apparently it was against the terms and conditions - so I accept this was my mistake ). When I removed the "offending" widget, they reactivated my account. However, all my other widgets and earnings mysteriously disappeared. I wrote back asking about this, and also if the earning that my non-english site generated would be returned back to the advertisers or would it stay in their pockets ?? Lets just say, I haven't heard back from them yet. Alex
they havew way too much exposure on this forum anyway...so if its such a crap...just forget about them. I am glad i nevr joined...i was thinking about them tho. What i read here doesnt sound ok, flakey and shady.
DUde they are not an advertising company.BEcause my every server is faster then their server.Do you call this ad SERVING?crap They tried to put a backlink on your sites via widgets,GOOGLE banned them.C'monn
did they told you the reason? in my email they said i put their ad on ad-only page... which i didnt... i dont even have pages of "ad-only page" WTF!?!
you are not the one, my account is suspended even I do not cheat or click fraud, I have never done that. more than 2000$ balance lost, with more than 2 million impression page view. WB is scammer !
Looks like I'm still in but I got this when I logged into my account: Sweet! At least now I don't have to send the morons an email to deactivate my account, I'll just let them do it for me.