I just received an update from Widgetbucks that I thought might be worth taking note of. The announcement has to do with widget display options. Now there will be 2 options available for each size of Widgetbucks’ widgets available previously.

One of the most interesting features is the new ability to establish rotation times. This means that you can determine how many times your widget will switch to display a new product per minute.

Here is an example of the new style Full Banner ‘B’ Widget format on a default 3 second rotation:

Well WidgetBucks is making an important move this month that will affect all of its users. The company announced that this month it will roll out a program that serves ads to international traffic. The ads will be CPM and will use geo-location techniques to determine which of their ad formats to use (CPM for non-US traffic or widgetized PPC ads for US based traffic). Eventually I might actually give this program a try but for now i’ll wait for the new program to settle a bit.

In other Widgetbucks related news, those of you that have been with them for some time will be receiving your first payments shortly–according to an announcement by the company you should expect payment by December 15th. Congratulations to those of you that have implemented their advertising program effectively since October.

For those of you that don’t know, Widgetbucks.com provides PPC advertising to your blog or website. Every time someone clicks on the Widgetbucks ad unit, you get paid. They also have a pretty nice referral program which has been well broadcast throughout the web. Anyway, through this referral program you can get a free $25 for simply signing up. They pay out once you earn your first $50 so it puts you well on your way.

According to the Widgetbucks website, when you refer someone to their service you get paid as follows:

When you refer a new WidgetBucks user, you will receive a 10 percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people you refer. You’ll receive this 10 percent for the full 12 months after the new member joins. Your referral fees will be credited to your account and paid monthly, along with your commission payout. So, if you refer someone, and they make $100 in commissions, we pay you $10; if they make $1,000, we pay you $100. This continues for a whole year on all the commissions they earn. The Referral/Bonus page has details on the Bonus and Referral Program. When you are logged-in, go to the Referral Tools page to grab referral ads. You will soon see a “Grab this Widget” link on all widgets for viral distribution, which includes your referral information.

For those of you that operate your blog on the wordpress platform there are some things you need to do in order to get the widget to work on your site as it uses Java Script. Anyway, as usual wordpress has a nice explanation of how to make widgetbucks jive with your blog.