The online company, Amazon.com, configured the automated sales commission as affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a process in which a web retailer pays a commission to smaller sites that send in business. For example, if a hubpage writer recommend a book to a reader with a link, and the reader purchases the book, the writer receives a commission and Amazon.com receives a sales profit. The commission or affiliate earnings from the sale on Amazon.com can be up to 15%. Revenue capsules on Hubpages for ebay and amazon are affiliate marketing strategies and stations for making money on Hubpages.

The URL or address of the properties contain information embedded that instructs the amazon computer to credit the appropriate amount of affiliate earnings to the proper account if a sale is effected. The Hubpage writer gets the commission if an affiliate account has been opened. The relationship between amazon and ebay as affiliates is a win win situation. Amazon gets customers indirectly without paying for expensive marketing expenses and the writer gets a commission on the sale.

Forbes publication reports that affiliate marketing is a money making venture. Money can be made on the affiliate programs of writing sites on the sleazier side of affiliate marketing The red light districts of the internet, the magazine reports where gambling and rated material abounds makes money with affiliate marketing. Hubpages cleaned up its website for writers and do not allow adult content. The rated content part of the web promote the affiliate program with email marketing and spam. Hubpages instead offers affiliate earnings from commission of sales through revenue capsules on ebay and amazon.com with clean and quality relevant writing.