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I’ve just received the answer to my question regarding last weeks absence of ad clicks. I got only 3 clicks in 6 days, very unusual since the clicks ranged from absolute minimum of 3 to absolute maximum of 108 a day. The reason for such a drop in the click rate was that WidgetBuck$ no longer count the international clicks. Only US and Canadian clicks count from 15th november. So if your visitors are mainly from countries outside the USA and Canada, you’re better of withoutWidgetBuck$ widgets. They’ll only take up your valuable ad space. I’ve decided to remove it from this blog, since I get virtually no US and Canadian visitors and leave it on the other blog that I have, where most of the traffic comes from USA and Canada.

Here’s the quote from the email, that I received:
Your traffic may be being affected by our recent change regarding
international clicks. Since our merchant partners will not pay for
clicks from users outside the U.S. or Canada, as of November 15th, those
clicks are no longer being counted or earning commissions. You can read
the full details here: http://widgetbucks.blogspot.com.

So how do you like the cleaner look of this site? Enjoy it while you can :evilsmiley: .

As you can see my enthusiasm was well based. WidgetBuck$ has really nice RPC (revenue per click) rates, up to ten times higher than most of the other ad networks. Besides that, it has a much nicer appearance with some amazing offers. Ok, I won’t describe it any further since I’ve already done that in my previous WidgetBuck$ posts. I must say I’m very satisfied, but I’d be even more satisfied if I’d have better referrals, LOL. 6 referrals have brought me only 2.54$ (as you can see in the screenshot below) and I got 10% from their earnings. A friend who referred me, made 9$ by himself and 36.5$ just by referring me. Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t bragging (I’m not John Chow, who makes money by telling other people how much money he makes - 24k in October BTW), I’m just saying money don’t fall from the sky and you have to work for your earnings. Basically all of the real world business rules apply to the online money making .

Here’s the screenshoot from my october (26 days to be exact) WidgetBuck$ earnings. If things would go on like this, I won’t have to work a 9 to 5 job much longer (along with all the other web incomes that I have).

EDIT: you can sign up (I’ve added that since some of you are already asking about it ), by clicking on the cool banner below:

I’ve already wrote a post about WidgetBuck$ so I won’t get into more details about the program itself. What I will get into, are the revenues. And those are, compared to all other networks that I’ve tried so far, crazy. It seems that the main reasons for high revenues are higher click rate/CTR (click through rate) and higher RPC (revenue per click). Click rate is a lot higher than what you usually get with other ad networks that are mostly showing text ads, because WidgetBuck$ have banners that really look good and therefore attract more clicks. RPC is around 10 times higher than its competitor’s (Adbrite, Kontera, Bidvertiser…), Adsense is the only one with “only” 2,5 times lower RPC (in my case).

I hope my excitement won’t be ruined with payment issues (yeah, there’s a lot of scam on the net). But even if, I really won’t loose anything. All I did is, I slaped a banner on my site and wait for the cash to roll in…Here’s the printscreen of the last few days revenues (not that RPC are always lower when pending, so revenues are always higher at the end…):

Do you wan’t to make money with WidgetBuck$ as well? Click on the banner below and get started .

I’ve found another interesting ad network. Their ads not only look good (I believe most of the users don’t find text ads interesting and most of the people don’t even spot it), the revenues are really good. I’m using it for a few days now and so far CPC (cost per click) is around 30c. That’s almost 50% more than what I get from Google’s Adsense. And Adsense had the best CPC rates for me so far. And I have tried various ad networks, from Bidvertiser which payed around 3-4c per click (and I’ve heard they are baning a lot of publishers just before they were supposed to get their first payment), Adbrite ranges from 4-7c per click and Kontera around 4-5c. Slovenian ad network Toboads has a flat rate of 12c (but those are euro cents, which is equal to cca US17c). So I can only recomend it, its averagely 5x higher CPC rates are really appealing. And what’s even better is that you get a 25$ SIGNUP BONUS. Since the minimal payout level is only 50$, you only have to generate $25 in clicks to make your first $50 with this program.

The widget is very customizable, you can choose what category of products you want to feature and easily copy the code to your blog layout.You can see Widget buck$ interactive banner in my sidebar. If you have more queatins about it, than this FAQ link should help. If you’re interested in more first hand experiences, please don’t hasitate to ask them.

If you’re still interested, click on this cool banner and get started .

A lot of people is asking me about adsense and making money online generally lately. So her’s a post which I already posted on my blogspot blog a while ago, but it wasn’t imported to (this) my WP blog. So here’s the complete copy/paste and the ADDED new second part of the post:

This post is going to be totally non-photographical, but still very useful to many of the visitors of my blog. As you can see, I’ve already put google ads on my blog, which are already bringing me revenue. I like adsense, because it’s so easy to use. Once you’ve signed up and copy/pasted the code, all you have to do is wait for the commercial ads to work (at first public service ads will be displayed, for which you will not receive earnings), this may take up to 48 hours (it took less then 12 hours in my case). From then all you’ll have to do, is to make your site interesting enough to get a lot of visitors and to keep them coming back.

A few tips that will increase revenues:
1. match every aspect of your AdSense ads to the theme of your website. What you want to do is remove the borders from your AdSense ads and match the background color of the ad to your website. Additionally, you want to match the color of the AdSense links to the rest of the links on your website plus choose an ad format that makes the ads look seamless
2. ad placement:
-the closer to the top of the page the better
-the closer the left of the page the better

Ofcourse there are many more tips floating on the web, I’ve written down just the most important ones. Besides that I’m pretty new to adsense and I’m still looking for ways to improve ad revenue myself.

Here’s a link to the official Google adsense help center where you can get more detailed info o how to get started, everything about earnings, improving performance etc.

ADDED: The best ad placement is, from my experience, in content, or better said in blog post. People just can’t miss it, they spot it right away and that’s the main reason for getting more clicks on the ads, which bring revenue. You can see the example of this ad in this post.  I use the Adsense Deluxe plugin to control and place ads on my blog. It’s really the easiest way to create various ads, with various sizes and decide which ads to show and ofcourse where you want to show them. I usually align it to the right and make the text wrap around the Google ad. I use this div command: <div style=”float: right; margin: 5px;”> <!–adsense#rectangle–></div> .

Man those were the days! Or better said, that was THE day. If things were going like this every day, I would have a nice, comfortable 4 hour workweek. But if you can’t generate that type of traffic and if people don’t click on the ads, than once reached reality becomes an illusion. But there’s another reason for this post. To shut up all the wise-asses, who think they know everything, when they really know shit. Here’s the link to a thread on slo-foto - the thread was really about yuwie, but it later involved adsense as well. If I owned a site similar to cnn.com, I’d be making millions off of advertising every year…

View LARGER if you want to see a 43$ daily adsense income

You had quite a few questions about this social network I wrote about a couple of days ago. I did answer most of your questions to the best of my knowlege. But then again, my knowlege about it is far from perfect. So I’m writing this post to clear things up. To get to the virtual presentation of Yuwie, just click on the banner below. You might want to skip the first presentation (if you know the basics and hate the standard propaganda) by pressing on the next button. All the next presentations focus on explaining how money can be made. Presentations are good and give you a good picture about how this social network really works. The bottom line is you get a cut from the advertising.

I hope this post was helpful. Please share your thoughts about Yuwie. I see you are quite interested, 10 people have already signed up in the first 24h…

Today’s post is dedicated to a social network, similar to Myspace. The concept is pretty much the same, you meet new people, new people meet you, you can get a nice model for a session or even a client that needs your photographical (or other) expertise and you earn money. But that’s is what you can do and those are the opportunities that might be in store for you. What is more important and really sets it apart from Myspace is, that you make money just by “using” it. If you refer people to Yuwie and they refer people to Yuwie and your pages generate a ton of traffic, you can make money. Yep, Yuwie is sharing it’s ad revenue with it’s members, at least to a certain extent.

Here’s the “earning scheme”:

LEVELS - REFERRALS - PAGEVIEWS - EARNINGS
1—————3—————3,000—————$0.15
2—————9—————9,000—————$0.45
3—————27————-27,000————–$0.54
4—————81————-81,000————–$1.62
5—————243———–243,000————-$4.86
6—————729———–729,000————-$14.58
7————–2,187——–2,187,000————-$43.74
8————–6,561——–6,561,000————-$328.05
9————-19,683——19,683,000————-$984.15
10————59,049——59,049,000————-$8,857.35

TOTAL——88,572 —–88,572,000————$10,235.49

The other nice thing about is, that it really works. Not like Myspace, that’s on and off, with all the errors driving you nuts. At least that’s the case with me, since I’m not a pacient man.

You can sign up here: http://r.yuwie.com/bernik

Have you ever asked yourself that question? I didn’t, but I immediately became interested when a friend of mine told me, my blog could be rated. Nowadays that you hear about major multinationals buying sites for millions or even billions of $ (Google bought youtube for 1.65 billion $), it makes you wonder what fraction of that could you possibly make, if there was a remote possibility someone wanted to acquire your blog.

Here’s what mine is worth:

You can check out how much your blog is worth here.

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I’ve started blogging and also tried to make some money out of it last year, december 15th to be exact. Untill yesterday, my only income was from google’s AdSense (which stil represent most of the ads on my site). Today I signed up to BidVertiser and AdBright.

Bidvertiser is a CPC (cost per click) based ad network, simillar to Google AdSense. CPC means that you will get payed for all legitimate clicks on the ads that are displayed on your page. It’s main advantage over AdSense is its low 10$ payout (via Paypal, meaning also it’s not availabel for Slovenia). You can also get payed by check, you can get payed, when you reach 50$ (Google AdSense has 100$ payout level). You can sign up to BidVertiser by clicking on the banner in the left column, besides this post.

EDIT: I’ve removed both banners (referral and text link ad), since it had performed poorly during the 4 day test period. I know that ad networks should be tested for a month or so, but 57c (I make more money with AdSense in a couple of hours) of revenue in 4 days is a waste of my ad space. Average CPC was only 4c, that’s way less than what I make with Google Adsense.

AdBrite has a totally different concept of advertising. It’s an internet ad marketplace. Anyone visiting your site can buy an ad directly on your site by clicking “Your Ad Here.” You’ll also be listed in the AdBrite marketplace, and represented by our busy in-house sales staff. You can set the pricing or you can choose the standard 5$ starting price point. That’s 150$ per ad monthly and when your traffic increases as well as advertiser’s interests revenues are rising progressively.

I’ll be testing the following ad networks for a week or two and then report back to you. I think BidVertiser might be a good choice for me, as well as for practically all of the bloggers, who want to earn money with blogging. AdBright might be a bit more tricky and needs a lot of traffic to really work. Because advertisers (people who pay for advertising) are not inclined to pay for their ad placement on low-traffic sites. Only time will tell and time and traffic are the most important factors for succeeding with AdBright advertising.