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This cartoon is by Dave Walker.

There’s a new alternative, or supplement, to the Adsense ads on your blog - WidgetBucks.

Once you sign up on the WidgetBucks website, you can select from a number of styles of ad, similar in size and shape to some of the Adsense ads. You can either select a product type for the ads, which should keep you in line with the Adsense terms and conditions, or you can allow the WidgetBucks context sensitive system to determine the best products based on the content of your page.

WidgetBucks also has an affiliate scheme, allowing you to earn 10% of your referrals earnings for 12 months.

Payment has a minimum of $50 and can be by cheque or PayPal. It’s open to anyone, so why not give WidgetBucks a try?

I’ve just installed a new widget on this blog, provided by BlogRush. You can see it in the left sidebar.

When you sign up for BlogRush (it’s free) and submit your blog details, you are provided with code for the widget to put on your page. This will display headlines from the blogs of other members of BlogRush which are relevant to the content of your blog. When a visitor clicks on a header it opens the other blog in a new window.

For every click you get on your widget you have one of your own blog headers displayed on someone else’s BlogRush widget.

In addition, if you refer someone to BlogRush, either by them clicking on the link in your widget, or on your direct referral link such as this one - BlogRush. If they sign up for and use BlogRush then you receive 10% of the traffic they generate.

I’ve used many traffic generators in the past, with mixed success. However, I believe this one could well work as it will mostly be used by bloggers with similar interests to your own. It is a way of having your blog be seen in more places.