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Whew! It's been a crazy year...
I would like some advice on how to split affiliate monies when you have guest bloggers. Is it feasible to do this? It can take some time for revenue to build up. I've been promised "monies" from a blog, but there are several bloggers. Not sure how the affiliate revenue will be split 
Glad to be guest blogging (once a week) because it gives me more exposure.
Good question. The owners could set a specific dollar amount on the affiliate monies as a basis to splitting the money. When the dollar amount is reached, the money could be split several ways. Kind of like CJ, LinkShare, and the other affiliate sites. They either assign a minimum dollar amount or you set it. When you reach it, they cut you a check or direct deposit money into your checking/savings account.
Do you have to?
When I do a guest post (as I did on this site today) I never expect any compensation, unless it is clearly stated upfront. I do so for the link and for the exposure.
Unless you can tell on a per page basis what post did what income, I'm not sure it would be worth doing.
I'm a guest blogger, and the owners would like the bloggers earn some cash for our efforts; I was told this after I became a guest blogger. We were given a choice of having an affiliate link (our choice) in our designated space or a link to a product/service we are selling.
Gary's point is right - is it really necessary? Often the opportunity (for the link and exposure) is pretty valuable by itself.
More importantly, trying to manage a revenue-sharing program can be very difficult - for example, say a site visitor comes to a site to read a particular article by a guest blogger, then while they are still on the site they wind up reading several more articles by other authors, and at some point they decide to click on an ad and buy something.
How do you split that revenue? Does it go to the author whose page first attracted them to the site? The authors on whose page the ad they clicked on was located? Try to figure out how many pages and whose pages the visitor read and split it amongst all those authors?
I like the idea of the other blog that Rebecca guest blogs for uses - allowing guest bloggers to link to a product or service that they are selling.....one that pays them directly. That would make it both attractive to guest bloggers, and very hands-off to manage. Hmmmm..... I may have to consider something like that for TWE!! 
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