Last Chance For A $25 Bonus From WidgetBucks

Posted by Paul B | January 4, 2008 .

Well I said this industry never stands still, looks like 2008 has brought some bad news already.

WidgetBucks are changing some of their terms very soon, if you haven’t already got an account with them then January the 15th is going to be your last chance to sign-up and get the $25 bonus they give to each new account. They are also using that date to alter their affiliate program, instead of the 10% for 12 months they currently offer they will be decreasing that to 5% for 12 months. When taken together these changes seem to indicate that WidgetBucks are content with the number of publishers they have and are in no hurry to recruit new webmasters, the incentive for webmasters to recruit new WidgetBucks users is now almost entirely gone.

The only good news is that I received my second payment from WidgetBucks yesterday although in all honesty this will be the last of my big earnings with them. The payment yesterday covered November and it was halfway through that month that they changed the rules and stopped paying out for non North American clicks. At the point my earnings took a hit although the change to pay-per-impression for some countries traffic has made a slight difference. WidgetBucks have been good to me but they seem intent on making life as difficult as possible at the moment, I’ll stick it out for now but I think that at the next “change for the worse” I’ll bail and try something new.

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