Can Anyone Explain The New Amazon Earnings Program?

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   Rock_njposted 5 years ago

   I see that the Amazon earnings are now based on some kind of new sharing protocol.  Can anyone please explain this new Amazon earnings program to me?  Thanks!

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      Christy Kirwanposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Previously, the 60/40 split applied to the time your affiliate code was shown. Your code was shown 60% of the time and HubPages' code was shown 40% of the time (randomized). If a sale was made while your code was showing, you got 100% of the commission value and HubPages got $0. If, on the other hand, you made a sale during HubPages' share of impressions, HubPages got to keep 100% of the commission.
      
      Instead, we've started splitting EVERY sale 40/60 instead of splitting by impressions. This way you can see how many sales are made total. For every sale, you get 60% of the commission and HubPages gets 40%.

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         Rock_njposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks for the explanation Christy.

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   Wesman Todd Shawposted 5 years ago

   I always trusted Hubpages. I may as well, as what can I do? But the new thing seems a lot more transparent and honest.

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   Don Bobbittposted 5 years ago

   To me, it's all about incentives. You give me an incentive to drink your brand of Coffee, and I'll probably drink your Coffee.
   If you give me a financial incentive to write more and better articles, with pertinent advertisements in them, and I will write more and better such articles.
   I love the clarity and the simplicity of the system.
   DON

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   Natalie Frankposted 5 years ago

   I agree.  There was something less than motivating about the other system.  Knowing that on the rare occasion I might make a sale there was a 40% chance all the earnings would go to HP and I'd get nothing made it so I wasn't so inspired to bother adding a link.  It didn't matter that there was a 60% chance I'd keep all of it.  I guess that's just one of the cognitive bias sorts of things.  This system is much better - knowing that I'll get something from every sale I make means I am more motivated to think of products I have experience with that I can add into articles.  Great move HP!

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 years ago

   I agree. The pay system is transparent and rewarding.

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   Ladymermaidposted 5 years ago

   I like this system better as well. Most of my Amazon products were removed by staff but I may go back and reapply a few. And yes, I use these products and put in a personal note alongside them.

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