WidgetBucks Could Be Better If They Not Hire A Sloths To Run The Company
I go straight to the point.I’ve read the Problogger post about the interview with WidgetBucks 2 days ago and I found some blurb are coming around. It’s all started when some unhappy publishers ranting about their earnings decreasing because of click from visitors outside North America and Canada.
For me that decision was totally ridicilous and even bad than Morten Meyerson, the man who lend his money to the lame search engine, ChaCha.com.The reason is quite awful for a big high profile company like Mpire.com, who behind the WidgetBucks.
After they being hate by Google so much, because of the “ must not remove link” in the HTML code that been provide by them, now ask we to hate them also. Just because you can’t bringing a return that you had set before, it doesn’t mean you absolutely hit your publishers just like that.
I’m pretty sure that all of the “professional workers” at the WidgetBucks could think something to sort out their problem.They could fokkow the lead of example like Google that put Geo-Targeting and whaetver they could “SmartPricing” that in simple word, pay the publishers with different rates, depending on the IP address.
So, what happen if publishers get a click from visitors outside from their unrestricted territory? All the click will be direct to the WidgetBucks creator or Mpire.com. And guess who will get the pay if the sale been made although the visitors is outside from North America? Themselves. Come WidgetBucks, you would get to think another best solution here.
There are thousands or more U.S green card holder in other countries in this world and had intended to buy things like when they live in America. So please don’t just make simple assumption like that.Make another visitors from other countries look useless and not worth of quality of whatever you would say. Better not hire a real sloth anyway.
4 Responses to “WidgetBucks Could Be Better If They Not Hire A Sloths To Run The Company”
By Money Masher on Nov 17, 2007 | Reply
I thought they were run by a bunch of monkeys! LOL!
By alpha on Nov 17, 2007 | Reply
Whatever animal they would be, WidgetBucks are on into their deadpool situation by making dumb decision like that.
By Dean Jutilla on Nov 17, 2007 | Reply
To provide some WidgetBucks perspective to your largely misinformed post, the decision to not credit non-US or Canada traffic came from simply listening to our primarily U.S.-based merchants. To be clear, they don’t value the international traffic — or more to the point, they don’t want to pay for it — because it doesn’t convert to sale, period. A recent erosion of RPC is evidence of how we were being penalized for this traffic. Will we consider geo-coding, other alternatives and/or bringing on non-US merchants? Absolutely (are are looking at these now) but in the short term, we’re focused on recovering RPCs for publishers. Incidentally, it’s important to check the facts before just displaying misinformation on your blog — we had no such problem with Google. The people spreading that were originators of competitive products to WidgetBucks — that is a fact and I’ve got posts to prove it. WidgetBucks may not be for you — and that’s ok. Cheers, Dean Jutilla, WidgetBucks