Making Money on Wizzley: Impressions, Clicks, Sales

Whether we like it or not, the reality of the world is that we need money to pay our bills, buy food, and for the fun things in life.  By making money we are independent, and can help others who need help. 

Writing on Wizzley is one way to make money online.  It is not a scam nor is it a scheme.  Everything is transparently out there in the open, with statistics for you to read if you know where to find them.  This page will get you started, and hopefully clear up some misconceptions.

Let's start with some definitions.

If you make money online, here are some common terms that you should know:

Impression:

An impression is when someone opens up a page online. For instance, when you clicked on this page and opened it up to look at it, you made a single impression.  Impressions do not pay money on Wizzley.  However, impressions do tell us that we are getting traffic, and you can see where the traffic is coming from on Google Analytics.

Click:

A click is a finger click of a mouse, or hitting the enter key on your computer.  A click is when a reader actively clicks on a hyperlink.  Clicks usually refer to paying hyperlinks.  Some vendors pay per click (PPC).  Chitika and Google Adsense pay per click.

Sale:

The majority of affiliate vendors pay per sale.  This means that if a reader buys something from them due to your referral, then you get a small commission for each item sold.  A reader would have to click through to the vendor's site from your page, then click on an item on the vendor site and buy it.  This type of commission is called pay per sale (PPS, or sometimes cost per sale--CPS).

The reason the majority of vendors pay per sale is that they get paid per sale.  in other words, they get paid when someone buys an item or a service from them.  Sales of products or services are what drives most business models. 

Each vendor determines what commission they will pay you per sale, and they tell you that upfront.  For instance, Amazon pays you a commission based on the item that you sell, and how many items you sell in a calendar month.  You can earn 4% to 8.5% of the retail price on each sale depending on how many sales you get.  Other vendors will pay out a flat commission rate no matter how many items you sell.

Wizzley is set up on a shared impression model.  The way Wizzley earns money is by sharing impressions with their authors.  Wizzley does not charge you any money to use their platform, however they do earn money from your pages on their impressions.

Here is what the Wizzley FAQ says:

Wizzley and its authors make money through ads. Google AdSense and Chitika ads are automatically integrated in your articles. In addition, you may market products from Amazon, Zazzle, and AllPosters and get paid a commission on sales.

To claim your share of ad impressions, enter your appropriate affiliate ID in your member account on Wizzley.com. It will then be substituted in 50-60% of the page impressions of your articles. Your affiliate revenue will be credited directly to your accounts with Google AdSense, Amazon, AllPosters or Zazzle.

After you have created 50 quality articles, your ad share will increase to 55%. After 100 articles we'll give you the maximum share of 60%. Recruit new members and get a permanent 10% share of the ad impressions generated by their articles.

Let's explain this further.  Wizzley rotates your account ID, and their account ID on your articles, so that depending on how many articles you have, your ID shows up 50 to 60% of the time, and Wizzley's ID shows up the rest of the time.  If you recruit a new member, your ID will show up on their pages during 10% of Wizzley's impressions. 

If a reader clicks through an ad on one of your impressions, you get 100% of the money earned from that action.  If a reader clicks through an ad on one of Wizzley's impressions, Wizzley gets 100% of the money made from that action.  Over a period of time, you will earn about 50 to 60% of the money made from that page.

One thing to note is that when your ID is on your page, it is on the entire page, all Adsense, Chitika, Amazon, Ebay, AllPosters, and Zazzle modules, and all Viglink links.  When Wizzley's ID is on the page, it is on the entire page.  The system does not mix up ID's on any given impression.

Privacy is a issue that comes up whenever money is discussed. And everyone should be careful when it comes to accounts, passwords, and privacy.  Therefore, it is important to note that since all of the paying accounts you have to make money on Wizzley are your own accounts, Wizzley cannot see what you are earning, where you are earning it, or how much you are earning.  By the same token, you cannot see what Wizzley is earning. 

Wizzley is also not responsible for paying you.  You will get paid by Amazon, Google, Zazzle, and the other companies that you add paying links to on your articles.

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