amazon affiliate question

There seems to be some confusion in this thread.

There are two different ways of using Amazon affiliate links in Squidoo lenses.

The first is simply to become an Amazon affiliate yourself and use your own affiliate links. If you elect to do this, you'll earn your own commission payments from Amazon (worked out in accordance with your own commission-level, i.e. dependent on your own number of affiliate sales that month), but you don't share this money with Squidoo: you're paid directly by Amazon in the normal way and Squidoo is not involved in your Amazon commission payments at all.

The other way is to use Squidoo's Amazon affiliate links on your lens. If you do this, Squidoo splits with you the commission arising from each sale on a 50/50 basis, but the commission is calculated according to their number of monthly affiliate sales (that's the highest commission percentage, of course), so for people starting off with no sales of their own - and for people unable, for example because of their locations, to become Amazon affiliates in their own right - this can be better (though in the long run it makes little sense, of course, for most people). Squidoo prefers you to use this option, naturally.

You can even decide this on a module-by-module basis, and have some of each within the same lens.

Or, of course, you can build your business more safely, on sites that you yourself own and control, and avoid all of the disasters that have befallen all the Warriors whose warnings about Squidoo are all over the board, in threads like these ...

Squidoo pros and cons

Is posting on Squidoo a waste of time?

What now? Woke this morning to find my squidoo empire has been locked!

Squidoo Empire, A Really Big Empire Gone in Seconds

It's about whether you want to be in control of your own business and income, or let someone else be in control of them. Some people "just get it". Others, apparently, "just don't".