A few days back I did a similar review for TNX, and now its time for WidgetBucks.

WidgetBucks provides flash based advertisements that are product centric. These should work very well on product websites. I’ve been evaluating it on YPOPs!, for the last one week and the performance has been quite good so far. In some cases, I’ve replaced AdBrite units with WidgetBucks and the risk of doing so seems to have paid off so far. The payouts are far better than that from AdSense and in most cases even better than Chitika.

They still need to iron out some glitches in their reporting system, but that’s all expected during the early beta launch of any new service!! As of today, they have moved to a real-time reporting system, subject to audits.

Payments are done via Check or PayPal and for a limited time, they are giving away $25 for those who sign-up. The minimum payout is $50, so you would still need to earn $25 additional before you get the free bonus!

For those who are not aware, TNX.net is a text link ads service similar to Text-Link-Ads, and LinkWorth, but works in a slightly different model, where you can buy and sell points.

I started an advertising campaign using TNX for Online Presence. I’ve placed over 1600 links!! (Yes! you heard it right) for this month on various sites. Each link cost me 1 point. I managed to get 5000 free points using a promotional offer that they were running at DigitalPoint, so it clearly made sense to try it out.

One thing that comes straight to my mind about their advertising via their site, is that you can select the PR of pages on which links should be placed, but you cannot select the websites you want them to be placed on! Their system does that randomly. I found a major glitch though, whereby my ads were coming up on another of my own sites. What!!! I’ve reported this bug to their Support Team.

As a publisher, I love their system. You get 3000 points for a PR4 page, 1200 points for a PR3 page, 300+ points for a PR2 page. So if you have a site with lots of PR3+ pages, you can make a lot of points every month. Just review the links being placed though. A lot of warez links show up on pages with high PR.

So how much money have I made in this 1 week? Well. Let me say that it can be quite comparable to Text-Link-Ads the way its going. I’ve been quite pleased so far with what they have to offer.

You can redeem points for cash payment to PayPal accounts. The “exchange-rate” is currently at $0.62 for every 1000 points and this will grow by 2% every week.

TNX.net has a nice concept going and it will be good to watch out for them…

This is what they claim on their website:

TNX.net combines the benefits of Contextual Advertising, Text Link Brokers and Relevant Exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links.

TNX introduces some new and unique concepts that can help it differentiate itself from TLA and LinkWorth. A run down is given below.

Publishers get “TNX Points” whenever text ads are displayed on their sites. These sites can be redeemed for cash paid via PayPal or can also be used to purchase advertisements.

For instance, if you currently have 20,000 points, this is what you can buy:

- 20 000 different PR0 pages from different websites
- 400 different PR1 pages from different websites
- 200 different PR2 pages from different websites
- 100 different PR3 pages from different websites
- 40 different PR4 pages from different websites
- 20 different PR5 pages from different websites

TNX has an affiliate program as well. When you bring a new participant you will receive 10% of all “TNX-points”, he/she will earn in the future.

The underlying concept of this site is the same, but the way its packaged, it might just work.

If you haven’t yet given them a try, please Join TNX Now.