Comments on: Is Associated Content Worth Your Time?

By: Sharon Olvera

Sharon Olvera — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:31:32 +0000

I guess I have an old Associated Content account. I last was able to write for them in 2009. I recently tried to get into my old account and could not. Still haven\’t been able to. I noticed that Yahoo! seems to have taken over. I don\’t know if that makes a difference or not. I have a new account with them, but I haven\’t tried to write anything cause of being obsessed with the fact I can\’t reach my old account. I wrote quite a few articles for them back then.

I don\’t remember which articles I wrote for them that were Upfront Payment\” which were most, but recently I found and printed one of my articles for them, re-worded it and submitted it to a club I am in. It was related to the subject matter. No payment so I didn\’t feel I was doing any wrong to anyone…especially since they won\’t let me touch my previous account. I am guessing much of the online writing sources are the same.

Guess I will stick to writing for my website.

Sharon Olvera

By: thalia

thalia — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:34:00 +0000

And here I am with my new blog..

I think you haven’t seen it yet.

Well, I hope you enjoy it.

http://itsmeyourmentor.blogspot.com/

By: Dahloan

Dahloan — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:56:14 +0000

I love Associated Content. I have been there three years. I have worked my way up to about $100 a month in page view money. I have 500 articles there. I average $5 an article. They are fun and quick to write, so you can write 4 an hour. $20 an hour is what I was making as a teacher, so that isn’t bad money. I write for Demand Studios, Seed.Com, TextBroker, and Constant Content. They all tell you what to write. Associated Content is the only upfront writing site I know of that lets you pick your topics. I haven’t had much luck with Seed, or Constahnt, but am doing ok with Demand and Text Broker.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:50:07 +0000

I’ve written for Associated Content for almost two years and it has its pros and cons. I agree that making a typo correction isn’t easy if you haven’t publish as display only, but they will make your corrections via an email. I’ve never had a correction request declined. The upfronts aren’t anything to get too excited over unless you are accepted as a feature writer, whereby you’ll get $10 upfront. And they do offer featured writers other higher paying upfront article opportunities at times.

AC has a great writer network and I’ve developed friendships there…in fact that is the best part!

AC used to garner impressive page views because articles would earn high ranking google positions, but lately that has changed for the worse. I’m thinking it had something to do with the Yahoo merger.

It’s hard to make much more than a few hundred dollars at AC these days unless you can pump out a hundred articles a month.

By: Cassandra James

Cassandra James — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:02:02 +0000

I make over $1,500 a month on AC so, yes, definitely worth my time.

If you know how to write for the internet you can make a lot of money. Most writers who complain about AC, don’t have a clue how to use SEO for internet style writing and, without it, you won’t be successful anywhere.

Oh and they pay as high as $25 an article for Partner calls, which are assigned to you once they realize you CAN write and you ARE bringing in page views.

One article on AC isn’t going to tell you anything so, no, your
‘experiment’ is not accurate

By: -AC member

-AC member — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:35:40 +0000

Folks, I was not on the vets bandwagon. Ive been in it for 2 years now with over 2.8 million pageviews. You have to have proper keywords, and if the article is good, promoting it is not necessary. You have to check google, are there 5 million articles on the same topic? If so, you won’t get a nice spot on google. You want original pieces, weird off of the path topics. When I began my first few articles got $3.00… they have risen and fallen in my 2 years though. But as of late, Im at a steady $5.00 per article, and then the PV royalties… I make around $400 extra just in royalties per month, thats not even including my upfronts.

Then if they see that you are well established in a certain topic, they will offer to invite you into their featured contributers programs, where you will get 3 articles per month in that topic, ranging from $10-$20 per piece.

If you are featured in 3 topics, that is an extra $90 for just 9 articles.

You cannot flop 5 articles out there and expect to go global.

SEO is VERY important on any content site. You don’t know what SEO is then learn it. Google it, and grasp it till you understand it fully. Then, and only then will you see a rise in payments, and page views.

By: Genesis

Genesis — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:36:04 +0000

I used to write for AC, back when they actually DID pay up to $20 for an article. It wasn’t bad at all because while most payments were $6-10 per article, you could whip them out super fast and toss them up. I used to do 5-10 articles in an afternoon and submit them. Back then, you got just about everything accepted, too. These days, the site is just junk. Too many authors, too much crap and no real pay.

By: Anuradha Ramkumar

Anuradha Ramkumar — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:17:50 +0000

That was a detailed review. Let me try AC and let you know.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:22:00 +0000

Hi, I started writing for AC about a year ago and was very excited initially because all of the “old dogs”_ veteraned members reported getting decent pay per article. I quickly learned that you had to be in at the jump start (ie get in years ago) to get that kind of pay. In reality, I have been paid at most $3 for an article.

The have other annoyances too; such as their “review” method. It is obvious that their standards for review are really based on the individuals OPINION who happens to read your article. They will reject you for a stupid reason (if you get a bad reviewer) but you can submit the same article and have it accepted. For example, I submitted an article that in the “reviewer’s” opinion was “commercial” Yet, I was not advertising anything. It was about a useful service which I think is not well known and at the end of the article, I mentioned one local (where I live) reputable company which offers the service. If you read their submission guidelines, it says:

“While we encourage you to promote yourself and your business or services, please no excessive self-promotion or brand promotion. We don’t want to publish infomercials. Also, do not include an “about the author” or other promotional plugs that are unrelated to the content.”

So, you see that even if I was promoting something (and I wasn’t), then it is still within their submission guidelines. However, if their REVIEWERS are looking for a good reason to reject your article, then they will find one.

AC provides only one benefit as I can see_ if you know SEO and choose your keyword/topic carefully… AND write carefully, then you can accrue long-term residuals from one-time work(s). Forget about upfront payment, and if you just focus on picking the perfect keywords to target then you can build a good residual income from AC. Google seems to love AC above most of their competitors, so that’s why you can get free promotion to your articles if you write for them with SEO in mind. Non-exclusive and no upfront pay is best for building long-term residuals with AC. One more thing…

Long term, you’d make more money writing SEO conscious articles for your own site, but AC is a good start point because their articles are indexed in a very short amount of time. So you start to see results/traffic immediately. Probably true with Triond too.

By: Dominique W.

Dominique W. — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:06:58 +0000

I have been writing for Associated Content for almost two weeks and have earned around $23. You have to put a lot of articles up though because one or two will not do. The problem that I am having with AC right now is that my page views are going down. I am trying to promote more though but right now I am not seeing a big huge difference when I promote. I guess I just need to do more articles and see where that leads me. But anyway, good article!

If you want to check out a few of my articles on AC, click the link:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/732673/dominique_williams.html