Comments on: Disappointing Third Time: WidgetSucks

By: J

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:35:00 +0000

A lot of Widgetsucks members are bein banned for no apparent reasons, members who have made hundreds of $$ are being kicked out due to so called fraudalent clicks. These are members with thousands of unique visitors daily.

Read their experiences on: http://widget-sucks.blogspot.com

By: J

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:35:00 +0000

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:12:34 +0000

They are getting alot of links quickly at $25 a pop, that should upset big G since it is going round penalizing sites for the very same thing.

No matter what extent of G’s penalty would be thousands of bloggers will still be linking back to them. What if they are considered a “bad neighborhood”?

I am sure that will not be the case. I understand people working on it are smart and will take into consideration criticism even fro some one like me.

Also, as an affiliate marketer I work with most of the merchants and their commissions vary fro 3% to 20%. How much WidgetBucks is paying you? .22 cents a click?

AuctionAds actually was a solution for many affiliates that could not participate in the program before.

WidgetBucks is a way to call me stupid. Sure it for a blogger who has no idea what affiliate marketing is it looks good. I see it as an insult to affiliates.

I do hope they can stand on their own merit.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:12:34 +0000

They are getting alot of links quickly at $25 a pop, that should upset big G since it is going round penalizing sites for the very same thing.

No matter what extent of G's penalty would be thousands of bloggers will still be linking back to them. What if they are considered a "bad neighborhood"?

I am sure that will not be the case. I understand people working on it are smart and will take into consideration criticism even fro some one like me.

Also, as an affiliate marketer I work with most of the merchants and their commissions vary fro 3% to 20%. How much WidgetBucks is paying you? .22 cents a click?

AuctionAds actually was a solution for many affiliates that could not participate in the program before.

WidgetBucks is a way to call me stupid. Sure it for a blogger who has no idea what affiliate marketing is it looks good. I see it as an insult to affiliates.

I do hope they can stand on their own merit.

By: Maurice (TheCaymanHost)

Maurice (TheCaymanHost) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:32:00 +0000

I’ve been using WB for a short while and although I read Andy Beard’s post about the hidden link I didn’t see how it would be harming me – as Jim says, surely it’s more likely to hurt them in the SERPS than anything else if they upset the great God Google. This is likely as they are in direct competition for Adsense dollars

I’m happy enough with the way the widget looks and performs so far and have some signups too. I can’t see what’s so suspect in some people’s eyes, although I respect anyone’s decision to participate in any program, PPC or otherwise. I don’t understand the reasoning behind the T.O.S. either, but why does that make the program unethical?

Like Jim I’m curious to know if I’m missing something that could be important. T.O.S. is odd, but hey, Adsense contains some real gems too

By: Maurice (TheCaymanHost)

Maurice (TheCaymanHost) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:32:00 +0000

I've been using WB for a short while and although I read Andy Beard's post about the hidden link I didn't see how it would be harming me – as Jim says, surely it's more likely to hurt them in the SERPS than anything else if they upset the great God Google. This is likely as they are in direct competition for Adsense dollars

I'm happy enough with the way the widget looks and performs so far and have some signups too. I can't see what's so suspect in some people's eyes, although I respect anyone's decision to participate in any program, PPC or otherwise. I don't understand the reasoning behind the T.O.S. either, but why does that make the program unethical?

Like Jim I'm curious to know if I'm missing something that could be important. T.O.S. is odd, but hey, Adsense contains some real gems too

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:06:07 +0000

Doesn’t make sense to me. If I recall, getting a ton of links very quickly is actually a really bad thing, right? So if they got thousands of signups in a short time, that could hurt them if I’m correct? Also, can you explain how it hurts the little guy? Like whom? Again, I’m not defending them. I’m just curious to your points.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:28:49 +0000

It’s not a nofollow in the widget, I placed nofollow here but I completely have forgotten that dofollow plugin is affecting everything in the comments.

If you go to your account or on your blog, you will see that link has no no follow, however there is no clear sign of that link in the widget, very much like those 1pxl links that Matt Cutts is talking about:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links/

Sure they do not link to a porn website but it gives WidgetBucks an unfair advantage against the little guy

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:22:40 +0000

What’s the big deal? It’s a nofollow. I don’t get it.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:15:57 +0000

Jim, Each widget has this code link in the code WidgetBucks - Trend Watch - WidgetBucks.com But nowhere does it appear in the widget