How We Make Money
Every way WealthLink earns revenue, and the firewall between revenue and editorial.
Last updated August 26, 2026
Most publishers hide this. We'd rather you could see our incentives and judge the content against them.
Our revenue streams
Affiliate commissions. When we recommend software or a service and you buy through our link, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Details and our rules are in the affiliate disclosure.
Digital products. We sell templates, spreadsheets, SOP libraries, financial models, and prompt packs in our shop. This is our highest-margin revenue and the one most aligned with readers — we only make money if the thing is genuinely useful.
Courses and toolkits. Larger paid products that package a complete process.
Newsletter sponsorships. Sponsors may buy a clearly-labeled placement in WealthLink Weekly. Sponsors cannot buy editorial coverage, and sponsorship never affects what we write about them or their competitors.
Lead generation. In some categories — mortgage, real estate, insurance — we may connect readers with licensed professionals and earn a referral fee. When we do, it's disclosed on the page, and we only work with licensed, compliant partners.
What we don't do
We don't sell ratings. No company can pay for a score, a ranking, a review, or a spot in a roundup.
We don't run paid placement inside editorial. If we publish sponsored content, it's labeled sponsored and kept out of editorial rankings.
We don't sell your data. Your email address is used to send you what you signed up for. We don't sell or rent our list. See our privacy policy.
We don't accept payment to remove criticism. If a review says something unflattering and it's accurate, it stays.
The firewall
Three rules keep revenue out of editorial:
- Ratings follow a published rubric. Scores come from our review process, not from commercial terms.
- Commission rates aren't part of evaluation. Rankings are never sorted by payout.
- We recommend products that pay us nothing. Often. And we say so on the page when a top pick earns us nothing.
Why it's worth saying
We write about money. A publisher covering money whose own money is opaque has a credibility problem before the first sentence.
If you ever see something on this site that looks like it was influenced by revenue, tell us. That feedback is worth more to us than the commission.