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Yahoo! Finance and Seeking Alpha Part Ways

July 25, 2014 11:03 AM EDT

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A win for SA contributors

The end of our partnership with Yahoo allows us to re-allocate the money we were paying for traffic to our contributors, and reward outstanding content. Here’s what will change this coming Monday (July 28):

1) Exclusive articles will receive an additional flat payment of $35 on top of the $10 per thousand pageviews we already pay. This means average earnings per article will increase significantly. Yahoo Finance sent us an average of 1,400 pageviews per article, contributing $14 in pageview payments. The new $35 additional flat payment more than doubles that number. Why? First, we would rather put money in contributors’ pockets than in Yahoo’s. And second, contributors are helping us to build other areas of our business (such as mobile), and deserve to be compensated for that even if we’re still working out monetization. A flat payment also means that contributors with valuable expertise in undercovered areas are less dependent on pageviews and free to focus on the topics they care about, which are often more valuable to other investors. (Minimum guaranteed payments of $150 for PRO articles and $500 for Top Ideas remain the same.)

http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/Yahoo%21+Finance+and+Seeking+Alpha+Part+Ways/9690774.html

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