WidgetBucks.com is already ranked 17K at alexa (2000 yesterday) but still not showing on google! Any toughts?
Widgetbucks is penalised by google since they have one very weird TOS. Go read it under TOS, it says you should not remove link to Widgetbucks which is embedded in the widget. that means its passing PR to widgetbucks. Google tracked that and gave them penalty. They dont even rank for their own name. Check google.
Google don't like them really well. If you search Widgetbucks on Google you come up with Wetbutts (as a better search) They're rank is on the 2nd page when you search their name.
They are just a big joke. Before few days, I read here in DP that a member deleted an AD and he lost all his revenue with that AD. I did same thing friday, and guess what? I lost my revenue . They are no more than a big scam. I tried to call them more than 10 times, and no reply. God bless Google, i hope that they really ban them.
But according to Widgetf*cks, their excuse for this was as follows ... 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. Taken from the Official Blog !! I believe statistics have stated that near to 90% of all internet users have Flash Player installed, so this seems very considerate for the other 10%. Alex
They actually lost out because of the hidden links using JS.. This was just another reason to get penalized