Do not write for associated content. Shier customer service is horrible and that’s just for starters. They only pay US residents, which is another huge downfall. They only offer very small upfront payments for the articles that you submit, and once you do, you can’t use them anywhere else. They delete perfectly good content that is written and do not let you have access to it after it is deleted. It us a useless website and they take no responsibility for their actions nor give you an explanation for why certain articles do no get published or deleted.

Shier performance payment program is also useless, because it is in beta and they threaten that at anytime they can cancel your payments and the program in general and keep your articles after you have worked so hard to publish and produce them. The worst part about associated content, is they make way more than what they pay you. You could easily publish the articles that you write with associated content and use adsense and search engine optimization and make what they are making, but instead, they decide to own your article and pay you pennies and don’t even guarantee your articles will remain online for the duration of their beta program. Associated content is a huge waste of time.