Limit of TWO Affiliate Links to a Hub

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   Perry's Blogposted 14 years ago

   19 July - Monday
   
   Dear Forum Members,
   
   I'm relatively new to Hub Pages...though I have just under 20 hubs now. My question is this: Why are we LIMITED to no more than
   TWO affiliate links on a hub? Every time I try to put a third
   affiliate link on a hub...(with no more than one or two links
   above...the blue ones...to other hubs, I get the rather RUDE
   notice above that hub that "EXCESSIVE LINKS" may cause the hub
   to be eliminated.
   
   It appears to "newcomers" that Hub Pages, Google, and others
   get to run all the ads they want on our pages, but the CREATOR
   OF THE HUB page gets "slapped down" or "warned" if ONE more
   affiliate link (once two are on the page)is placed there.
   
   To be frank, it looks to newcomers like Hub Pages and others
   are "RIDING PIGGY-BANK" on our hub pages. THEY can place any
   number of ads, but the CREATOR of the hub page is not allowed
   over two affiliate links.
   
   Sorry, but I don't really KNOW if Google is honest or not on
   ad clicks. How does the creator of the hub page-s really know
   how many clicks are taking place? There seems no real way of
   knowing. As a 25 year professional writer with thousands of
   published credits, at least when you send an article to a
   national magazine (and they accept it...meaning buy it...) you
   get a check.
   
   So I'm just simply wondering if I'll be a thousand year old
   still turning out hubs....before I see any money. Hey, life's
   too short for that....especially when you're already 125.
   
   I would value any answers from veteran hub writers. (I'm a
   vet too....a navy vet).
   
   Thanks,
   Perry

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      thooghunposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      My observations:
      
      1) The adsense revenue works, I have made money this way.
      2) Making money on Hubpages takes a gargantuan effort. But it is possible.
      3) Adsense revenue is YOURS and is not touched by Hubpages. They just rotate their publisher code with yours 40% of the time. You can check this manually.
      4) How many self serving links do you need?

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      psycheskinnerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      You can have as may affiliate links as you want, just no more than two to the same site.

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      Marisa Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      The answer is simple.
      
      HubPages is a shared revenue platform. That is, the site is funded by HubPages taking a share of the revenue generated by advertisements in our articles.
      
      If you place affiliate links in your Hub, HubPages gets no benefit from those links - and their presence dilutes the revenue from the shared advertising links.
      
      Besides, limiting affiliate links prevents spammers from over-running the site with poor quality thin affiliate articles.

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   Website Examinerposted 14 years ago

   The basic rule is no more than two links to the same domain; affiliate link or not should make no difference. HubPages is pretty liberal compared to many article directories that only allow 2 self-serving links in total.
   
   http://hubpages.com/faq/#overly_promotional

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   lrohnerposted 14 years ago

   If you have opened a Google AdSense account and inserted your AdSense publisher ID into the Affiliate Settings in My Account, then you are getting a 60% share of those ads. I think that's pretty generous considering what HubPages itself puts out that allows us to have this great platform.
   
   HubPages has given us four advertising mechanisms to earn money here:  Amazon, eBay, Kontera and Google AdSense. Notice that list did not include your affiliate site or some random site that you are selling for. If you choose not to advertise through one of those four sites, then HubPages is not the place for you to earn money.
   
   Remember--this is not "our" website. It belongs to HubPages. As such, they can put any restrictions or limits in place that they need or want to. If you don't like it, write elsewhere.

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   Len Cannonposted 14 years ago

   The ads Hubpages place on our articles are also OUR ads. Limiting it to 2 links to the same domain will save you frustration in the long run, believe me.
   
   Where have you been published before, I am interested

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