# Can you earn commisions with affiliate plug ins?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-earn-commisions-with-affiliate-plug-ins/121224
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** advertising
**Created:** [25 ביוני, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-earn-commisions-with-affiliate-plug-ins/121224 "2019-06-25T01:05:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@JC\_Ceb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JC_Ceb)
#### Post date: [25 ביוני, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-earn-commisions-with-affiliate-plug-ins/121224/1 "2019-06-25T01:05:53Z")
I’m evaluating to include advertising plugins or not. However, I have no idea if I ( as forum owner) can control or earn money on the advertising shown at the site (e.g. Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, etc.)
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [25 ביוני, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-earn-commisions-with-affiliate-plug-ins/121224/2 "2019-06-25T14:24:07Z")
Yes you can make money with AdSense and other networks supported by the plugin. Affiliate advertising can be done using the House Ads part of the plugin. Notice the ads we’re showing after the last post of topics here on meta. If we were earning commissions from them, we would use affiliate links there.
> [@House Ads in the official Ad Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/house-ads-in-the-official-ad-plugin/116715):
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> warning IF YOU ARE RUNNING AN AD BLOCKER RIGHT NOW YOU WILL HAVE A VERY BAD TIME TRYING TO SET THIS UP! TURN IT OFF BEFORE PROCEEDING DOWN THIS PATH! You’ve been warned. dragon Also be aware of browsers with built-in ad-blocker functionality (eg. Brave) I’ve been working on adding support for house ads in the ad plugin and would like some feedback about how you’d use it. Here’s a video to demonstrate how I have it working now: You define a set of ads using html and the usual theme…
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [25 ביוני, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-earn-commisions-with-affiliate-plug-ins/121224/3 "2019-06-25T14:36:03Z")
Also look at [(Obsolete) Use Amazon OneLink to make affiliated links on global forums much easier](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorporating-amazon-onelink-making-affiliated-links-on-global-forums-much-easier/93642)
But this requires users or staff sharing Amazon links in posts (or custom banners etc)
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### Author:  [@JC\_Ceb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JC_Ceb)
#### Post date: [25 ביוני, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-earn-commisions-with-affiliate-plug-ins/121224/4 "2019-06-25T17:37:25Z")
Thanks, Neli and Robert. I was someone would say it was possible to earn a bit of commission money and would assume some developers are strategically silent about it so they can sneak in their credentials to earn the commisssion not the site owner who may or may not care.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [25 ביוני, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-earn-commisions-with-affiliate-plug-ins/121224/5 "2019-06-25T17:58:29Z")
> [@JC\_Ceb](#):
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> they can sneak in their credentials to earn the commisssion
I think this is the minority, and afterall, people sneak in Amazon links on YouTube descriptions and YouTube earns nothing from these :wink:
But yes, if you install OneLink javascript code, all Amazon links will be credited to the site owner.