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  • July 16, 2016 at 11:58 pm #51365
    Travis
    Guest

    I’ll be collecting revenue from Adsense, Youtube Ads, and affiliate income. Is there a way that I can enter the total income from all of those each month and have it divided up between my contributors based on word count, visits, and comments?

    I could just manually enter the amount I made each month (from all three sources) and then have your plugin automatically divide up that total between all my contributors.

    Does that make sense?

    Thank you! Your plugin is awesome!

    July 17, 2016 at 3:49 pm #51367
    Stefano
    Keymaster

    Hi Travis,
    what you need is not explicitly a feature. However, you may be able to achieve what you need (at least up to some point) following the directions from this tutorial and adapting it to your needs 🙂

    Hope this helps!
    Have a nice day,
    Stefano

    July 18, 2016 at 5:54 am #51371
    Travis DeRose
    Guest

    Okay I think I understand.

    So at the end of every month I will add up all the revenue I made and divide it by the number of page views. I will then enter that number in the Incremental payment value. Then pay everybody and mark them all as paid.

    Is that correct?

    July 18, 2016 at 8:07 am #51377
    Stefano
    Keymaster

    Yes, that’s correct 🙂

    However, note that doing that way will split the total revenue between authors only basing on page views. If you want to consider words and comments, as stated in your firs post, you will have to take care of that as well.

    I’m available for any more help 🙂

    July 18, 2016 at 11:17 pm #51382
    Travis DeRose
    Guest

    So let’s say I wanted to have both page views and comments count towards the users revenue share. Is there a way to make a comment 5 times as valuable as a page view?

    Does that make sense? Because I feel a comment is harder to get than a page view.

    Thanks for all your help

    July 19, 2016 at 2:43 pm #51388
    Stefano
    Keymaster

    Sorry for the delay!

    Is there a way to make a comment 5 times as valuable as a page view?

    Yes, it involves some simple math. I’ll make a specific example.

    Say this month earning is $200, and total pageviews is 4000 and total comments 50.

    What you need to do is divide $200 by (4000 + 50*5), so it’s $200/4250 = $0.047.
    Then the incremental payment value for visits will be $0.047, while for comments $0.047 * 5 = 0.235.

    You can verify this is correct by doing the reverse multiplications: visits amount to a total of $0.047 * 4000 = $188 and comments to a total of $0.235 * 50 = $11.75, and $188 + $11.75 = $299.75, which is correct if you take into account approximation errors 🙂

    Of course you can replace 5 with any other weight for comments.

    Have a nice day,
    Stefano

    July 19, 2016 at 7:42 pm #51401
    Travis DeRose
    Guest

    Awesome! That’s what I figured. Thanks for all your help!

    July 20, 2016 at 6:57 am #51405
    Stefano
    Keymaster

    Great to know, you’re welcome 🙂

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