Please welcome, a brand new advertising option for bloggers with their promising, and their potentially by the name of WidgetBucks that is launching as we speak. I’m yet to test it live on my sites as it is brand new - but from my initial looking over of the service I’d say that it has promise. Here’s how one of their ad units looks ( You can look at my sidebar ).

Widgets come in a range of sizes and can be customized to different colors. They will also let you target 13 different categories (each category has sub categories) if you choose to manually set them - but will let you run it in a ‘contextual’ mode (called ‘MerchSense’).

How Do You Make Money?

You make money on a ‘per click’ (CPC) basis and WidgetBucks claim that those who’ve tested them are getting $3-$6 CPM. Payment is via Check but you need to hit $50 before you trigger your first payment.

$25 SignUp Bonus

Publishers and Bloggers! When you sign-up with WidgetBucks, you’ll automatically receive a $25 bonus into your account to get the ball rolling. This means you are half way to your first payout with WidgetBucks. So all you need to earn is another $25 to get a $50 for your first payment.

WidgetBucks will allow you to run as many ads on a page as you like and you can use this system with AdSense according to their FAQ.

Referral Program

With WidgetBucks‘ Referral program, affiliates can earn a 10 percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people they refer. Affiliates receive this 10 percent for the full 12 months after the new member joins. Payouts to affiliates are monthly, along with their commission checks.

What I like about WidgetBucks

Keep in mind that I’m yet to test it out and am writing this as a first impression review

• I like the ad units - they are very clickable
• There is a good range of colors and ad unit sizes to choose from in sort there is good from for PPC.
• Reporting looks good
• Reported CPM is reasonable considering you can run multiple ad units and other ad systems on your page
• This strikes me as being a good system on ‘product related blogs’

What I’d like to see Added

• My experience with these types of ads shows me that the more targeted the ads.
• Referral system - it pays $5 when the person you refer earns their first $25. While this is ok - it is nothing in comparison to other referral systems that payout a % of the earnings of those you refer.
• There’s would be first good impression for Beginner Internet Marketer
• The bad side of what I noticed is The Widget code may only be placed on pages with content primarily in English, in fact, for Indonesia online entrepreneur that’s requirement makes it not give something difference.

I’m sure I’ll discover more that I like and dislike about WidgetBucks as I test it more - but overall it looks like a system worth testing out to see if it works well on your blog or not.

What do you think of WidgetBucks?