I have just received this email from WidgetBucks. I guess they’ve consider some International market at all. Good news to Non-US/Canada publishers. So Non-US/Canada publishers, What’s your take on this make money online strategy by WidgetBucks? Do you still want to put WidgetBucks ads back on your site? Marhgil, after all, will be getting his October earnings soon. Good for you buddy.
Dear WidgetBucks Publishers,
We’re seeing strong traffic on the WidgetBucks shopping widgets during this holiday season and wanted to tell you about three things: new International CPM Ads, removing pending data, and payments coming soon.
International CPM Ads
Here’s an upcoming feature. In early December, we will start serving CPM ads to the non-U.S./Canada traffic. This will give you revenue, per impression, for your site visitors who come from other countries. This is designed to help publishers who have a blend of traffic from a variety of countries.
Our system will do the geo-location for you, determining where the visitor is coming from. Then we’ll either show the regular pay-per-click widget (to visitors from the U.S. and Canada) or show an ad that pays per impression (to visitors from other countries). You’ll see a new column, called “CPM Revenue” in your earnings reports.
We’re also working on pay-per-click arrangements with global merchants, but those will take longer to implement. We’re glad to deliver a way for you to monetize almost all of your traffic in December. Please check our blog at http://widgetbucks.blogspot.com for further updates on this.
Removing Pending Data
We’d like to give you some advance notice of a pending change that will help publishers manage their business. Next week, we will remove the “pending” data from the “My Widgets” page. This data is the numbers that are displayed in red. Instead we will only display audited data in black.
We’re making this change because we’ve worked with our merchant partners and succeeded in speeding up the auditing process, which many of our publishers requested. Audits now take up to 24 hours, instead of the previous timeframe of up to 72 hours.
When we make this change next week, you will only see audited figures (in black) and they will be displayed by noon (Pacific Standard Time) of the following day. So, by noon on Tuesday, you’ll be able to see all of your confirmed clicks, revenue, and RPCs for Monday.
This change will remove confusion about the red pending figures, and frustration about changes from the pending to audited figures. Thus the clicks and revenue you see will be the confirmed clicks and revenue, which will then not change. Please check our blog for more info: http://widgetbucks.blogspot.com.
First payments coming soon!
We’re very excited that our first set of payments are lined up to go out early next week. Our deadline is by December 15th (45 days after the end of October), but we are working very hard to get them out to everyone at the beginning of December.
We would like to remind you that we need correct payment information from you to be able to send you your payments. Please go to the My Settings page and indicate if you want to be paid by check or by PayPal. Reminder: PayPal is faster. Checks are sent regular U.S. mail. All payments are in U.S. dollars.
If we don’t have your correct payee information and mailing address or your correct PayPal e-mail address, we won’t be able to send you money. So please go to https://www.widgetbucks.com
/mySettings.page and make sure the information is there and correct. Happy earning!
The WidgetBucks Team
EntreCard is an Internet business card in which you can get an Ad space for free. Good for us if, by luck, we can squeeze and get ad space on big name bloggers like Darren of Problogger.net, Jeremy of Shoemoney.com and John Cow of Johncow.com, just to name a few.
I was encouraged to sign up for an EntreCard because of this catchy title post Advertise on Big Name Blogs for Free by McBilly.
As what John Cow said:
To get your card to show up on someone’s blog, you have to use some of your Entrecard credits to advertise in their widget. You set up a campaign, choose your niche, find a blog and then request an ad spot. If it’s approved, it runs for 24 hours.
So what are you waiting for, sign up for Entrecard and drop your cards now!
There are a lot of women especially wives and moms nowadays who have found means through the internet to work right at the comfort of their own home. They can work and earn an income without the need to leave home and especially leave behind their children whom they can take care of at the same time. What is good is that their time is flexible. My wife used to be a work at home mom after giving birth January of this year but for more than two months now she tries to balance her regular office work and still being a work at home mom by means of the opportunities she gets in the internet which give her extra earnings.
For those women and moms staying at home and looking for work opportunity online there is a work at home mom site www.mommyempire.com which offer free and at the same time paid resources on working at home. Registration is free to avail of their exclusive access sites. What’s best is that they have an online guide for home-based business and Internet-based business resources. They do have a tutorials for those who has little background in setting up website or for those who still have to build their own websites. This site is growing and you can go check it out as there are more opportunities to come. And lastly, they do have a blog site for some updates and news. Please do check them out.
Yesterday, I was shocked to see and discovered that my wife‘s 2 sites, both with PR3, had reduced to zero. Yes, that’s nil, null, nada, ‘O’, PR0. I thought that it was some kind of a glitch in Big G’s PR but when I searched and checked it with PR tools online, the sites indeed have both PR0. Wow. Not good. In my opinion, as a blogger who make money online with still small traffic to the site, I think having pagerank is important because almost all Get Paid To (GPT) sites seem to rely on Google’s PR. While an established blog site with large traffic and with many readers, PR is really not that important to them because they can earn enough money without relying on GPT sites.
There are also many angry and pissed bloggers, who had their PR3s, PR4s, and PR5s reduced to ZERO by Google.
Here are some must read posts for bloggers who wants to play hide and seek game with Google:
Google Goes after the Everyday Blogger
I find it laughable that high profile bloggers like TechCrunch aren’t being penalized in the same way. Perhaps it’s the fact that they use AdSense. Perhaps it’s the fact that they are silicon valley insiders and are invited to special Google events. Either way I don’t see the difference between a sponsored post in our system or this sponsored post. Both are paid for, neither use no-follow.
Selling Links in a Google Controlled Internet
Paid links are not going away no matter how hard Google tries. While Google has been able to get many sites to surrender, that had the effect of increasing prices because of less supply. I’ve talked to quite a few sites and they tell me that since the Google crack down, their link sales have been better than ever. As long as they stay under Google’s radar, they’ll be able to enjoy the income the links provide plus get Google traffic as well.
Worried about Google PR drop? Don’t be!
Those of us who have chosen to monetize our blogs need a way to show that our blogs have value. PR was the most reliable measure in the past. So what are we going to do now? Find another way. A way that shows the actual value of our blogs so that advertisers can know whether or not we offer them the right vehicle for promoting their product. The geniuses at IZEA…..
ZeroRank – More PageRank Carnage (Round 5)
Google is making huge mistakes with these updates. I know many people receiving penalties sell links, and I am not trying to defend them. When you get someone like regular reader Rob, a real expert in SEO, who based on the links he receives should be a comfortable PR4, or possibly a PR5, currently a PR0, because he wrote one paid review using nofollow on the links.
Is Google Treating All Bloggers Equally… Oh, really?
It will be very interesting to see what Google does or doesn’t do… And by the way, you can download the html from the page yourself before it is changed. While I’m not so worried about TechCrunch passing PR, I am wondering: “Does Google treat all bloggers equally? Or just some? Over to you Matt.”
So much about those linkies. I am not that angry of what’s happened. It’s just that Google should be transparent as they are the Goliath in the internet. They should not be slapping PR’s here and there.
How about you? Has your blog been affected too? Do you think PR is important or not?
Some of you may have already read this kind of post but for others who have not, this might be of big help to them and for security awareness.
What is Phishing?
Phishing is a form of identity theft that occurs when a malicious Web site impersonates a legitimate one in order to acquire sensitive information such as passwords, account details, or credit card numbers. Phishing attacks usually come from email messages that attempt to lure the recipient into updating their personal information on fraudulent, but very real looking, Web sites. More information on phishing can be found at the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and there are a number of examples and resources available at the Wikipedia Phishing page.
I was inspired to repost GoogleLady’s TimeStamp Powerful Blog Tool article because this tool is indeed very powerful and useful. Also, I was guilty on her second reason. But now I know how to use it.
I have been reading a lot blog posts saying that they are sorry for not being able to post XX days ago because they were to busy, they were on vacation, bla bla bla… But everytime that I read this on certain blogs I came to a conclusion that there are two reasons why they make this:
1. They don’t know about the timestamp tool.
2. They are not appasionated about their blog niche.…….. I have mentioned #2 that they are not passionated about their niche blog, are those bloggers that don’t know what to write and always wait someone else to make an article and write something “similar” with the same idea.
Yes it is very useful when scheduling future posts in wordpress when you are too busy or when you are on vacation and can not go online. Cowboytf of bloggingcents showed steps on How To Schedule a Future Post in WordPress. Go play with WordPress TimeStamp feature.
