The Last In Line

Someone on my post on "the other site" asked a great question, "How do you know you will get paid at PWG?" I think this is a very relevant question. And the perfect PWG member to answer this is me. Not because I'm an admin, but because I am the last in line to receive my earnings.

In a recent post I mentioned that there is always a discrepancy between the actual page views and the estimated page views we see on our posts page to the right of each of our posts.
- This is because bots, crawlers, and many other things are included in the Analytics report I use to tally up our views/earnings. I cut these out because they do not register as a valid page view and aren't specifically associate with any post. They are a random set of figures followed by an ambiguous http address.
- The comments are also removed from the list as they are, by default, already listed as a valid page view.

The final overall earnings/views must be as close as possible before I begin counting how much each post has earned. $100.00 = 10000 page views or roughly $0.01 per view. The best rate going at the moment, if you can get paid for it. Any deviation in the figure means the last one in line to get paid will lose earnings. That one will ALWAYS be me. $100.00 with 12000 valid page views means I have lost $2.00 for the month. But my writers have not.

This is how you know you will get paid. When a site promises big earnings it is always at the expense of the writers. It is a given that someone must take a hit so that the others will get paid fairly. It is no different here. The last in line takes the fall at PWG. The last in line here is me.

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