WidgetBucks: Of all of the revenue earning sources I run on my sites (apart from WidgetBucks ), I have found shopping comparison widgets to be the most unpredictable, in terms of both click thru rate and total revenue made. In general they work well on my websites that are complementary in nature (i.e. a gadget blog or review website). This being said I have found Shopping comparison widgets are great for putting between blog posts or forum posts, which is why I use them on the majority of my sites.

When it comes to new programs If I can I like to test them all out, which is why when I saw a promotion for the WidgetBucks program, I immediately signed up and starting running their widget on a few of my websites and from the start I knew the WidgetBucks program would be a winner.

WidgetBucks promote their widgets/ads with the slogan Ads Suck ours don’t and quote an effective CPM on some of their widgets as high as $2.  Their widgets look very dynamic and interesting drawing the reader’s attention toward the ad, which for my websites has seen an increased click thru rate and CPM on sites that I would not have normally considered to be suitable for this type of program. On some of my websites I have found I have earnt more than I do with Google Adsense, which is one of my top earners.

Over the last four weeks of running WidgetBucks I have found the amount paid per click is very high compared to other similar programs that I have been involved in.

With WidgetBucks I have earned as low as USD 0.25 and as high as USD$ 0.58 per click, which is way I am currently promoting WidgetBucks as the number one shopping comparison Advertising program for publishers.

I only really have one gripe about WidgetBucks and that is their Ads take a little longer than a traditional Ad to load, which at the moment I am not too concerned about because my readers will start reading the page while the ad is loading and won’t notice the slow load time of the ad.

Some of WidgetBucks popular Ad formats include: