Widgetbucks is a new flashy CPC widget revenue source, previously discussed in "Something’s wrong with Widgetbucks". But, Widgetbucks is improving fast and most of the problems have been fixed or in the process of fixing and it looks like they do listen to their costumers, both publishers and advertisers. I’ve been experimenting with Widgetbucks on several platforms and results so far varied from relatively okay to soso. Till three days ago.

I caught a short but significant comment in the new Clear cut blogging blog mentioning the following:

Coffee makers are what they choose for my site if I let the MerchSense function crawl my page and automatically put up “relevant” ads. I have it set up with lingerie now so the CTR is higher but the RPC is lower. I hope they will get better ads in the future.

Initial response was "Oh, wow… they actually have ads for women’s lingerie?" and after giving it some thought I went to have a look at what those ads look like and was extremely surprised to find the ads include hot and sexy half naked girls modeling the women’s lingerie. Here, look at the following examples:

So, looking at the sites I’m involved with I tried to find one where I wouldn’t feel too uncomfortable putting those up, and figured the Wispid experiment is a good place to give it a go.

Results are shocking. I’m now quite sure that folks clicking on those ads are not women looking to buy lingerie but rather men eager to have a look at sexy girls.

Although RPC did go down to about 20-40% what is was with the other products, CTR jumped up 8-12 times more than it was before (!). A small time time blog with relatively low pageview count now earns relatively high revenue from Widgetbucks because of those ads. It’s kicking Google Adsense ass, that’s for sure. Unreal.

There you have it - if you’ve got a blog that would tolerate this kind of Widgetbucks ads, I say - go for it. I think you’d be surprised how well those convert. If you do try it out - let me know how well it performed, I’m curious.

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