It seems I'm earning around 40-50% of the impressions, but I thought authors were supposed to earn 60%.
It is the author/hubpages 60/40 that attract me to HP. But since the maven take over and Google withdraw AdSense, earngs has been less than 60%.
I have not seen any changes here in the percentage payouts since Maven took over. What I have seen is that our CPM went way out since Maven started finding the advertisers through their networks. I am making a decent income here, whereas before it was just middling.
As far as I know that 60/40 split is no longer written anywhere since the new Maven TOS earlier this year.
Almost everyone gets less than 60, even before the Maven TOS. The number of impressions is less than 60 because of ad blockers and people bouncing off of your page before the ads have time to load.
DrMark, did the the Ad Blockers were were manipulated?
Since we no longer have "bring your own" for AdSense and Amazon, the algorithm for 60% of the impressions is gone.
Instead, we earn 60% of ALL the impressions. With the old method, we earned 100% from 60% of the impressions. The result basically is the same.
Besides all that, what DrMark said about ad blockers definitely has a negative impact on our impressions. As he indicated, that's probably why you are selling less impressions.
My pleasure. I just noticed I had a typo in it. “selling” should have been “seeing” in my last sentence. I’ve got to be so careful with auto error correction that changes things.
by Melanie Palen 4 years ago
Is it true that the 60/40 model only applies after HubPages pays their expenses? Because I have expenses too... I don't see why we should suffer because HubPages wants 40% to be pure profit AFTER their expenses.
by tnvrstar 13 years ago
How does this new Hubpages ad program works?I just have activated Hubpages ad program but I don't see any ad except google adsense in my article. can anyone explain about this new ad program?
by Mutiny92 13 years ago
Good Morning! I woke up to check the Ad Program report for the day and it shows $0 with 0 impressions. Is the system is in the midst of populating the accounts? Just curious what time of the day is the goal for having them updated.And BTW - KUDOs for an outstanding job with the...
by kmackey32 13 years ago
Has anyone had any luck with this? I am thinking about turning it off as I have not made any adsense this month and I have only made a few bucks from hubpages.
by Robephiles 13 years ago
Today I got zero clicks on my hubpages ad program. This was weird because it was after a Monday when I usually get the most clicks, a day of heavy traffic, and my clicks and views have been going up lately. I haven't had a single zero click day since I started the program. I am...
by Richard Ricky Hale 12 years ago
I keep an eye on my stats daily. I noticed a sharp decline in my earnings for yesterday, April 10th. I know it is wrong. Has anyone else been affected by this yesterday? Who do I need to speak with about this? Thanks.
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