Thanks for the great information. I might start doing it today

u rock redtide

as for calls for content, i decided to jump in and try AC writing. it doesn't seem like there's a way to do more than one article on a CFC in one account, or am i missing something? For instance, i claimed one on the Great Outdoors Month, which one could write tons of articles for, but it allowed me only one.

No problem Yachi,

Good luck with it




Thanks werrich

Hmm that's strange, it allows me to claim as many as I want. Of course the one's I always claim are the partner site C4C's. I've never tried to claim the regular C4C's. I've claimed as many as 3 AC partner "calls" on one account at a time.

Sorry I couldn't be more help on that

Good luck

to clarify, i mean claiming the exact same C4C on the exact same account. You have been able to do this? If so, very cool...

Ya I didn't relaize that's what you meant. No they don't let you claim the same one twice per account. When I posted about claiming 2 of them I was speaking of 2 seperate C4C's. One was for the Obama corporate tax crackdown and the other was for changes in the housing market. Both at $10 and for Reut*ers.

If I'm right in remembering that you said there was only one available to you and it was the Obama one, they must have taken the other one off by the time you got there. They take the partner calls down fairly early in the day if they've met their needs already. I claim those suckers early in the morn to make sure I don't miss em.

Hope this clarified

Thanks...I wasn't familiar with some of the terms such as GAF. I even googled it but could not figure it out. The reference to the website helped a lot. Thanks!

Matthew

No problem man, glad it helped


@ everyone
I wanted to clarify to newer AC users that when I'm referring to C4C's or 'Calls for Content' I'm speaking about the 'Assignment Desk' on AC's main page. It had been called C4C up until recently.

Hope this clarifies as I'm getting alot of PM's asking what C4C is.


Also here's another little tip of the day...

When accepting a claim and doing the higher paying AC "partner site" assignments, make sure you use all real names, company names, correct and factual locations, etc.

I got a minor 'slap on the wrist' by AC staff for changing a realty companies name. What they do is when they are reviewing them they do a quick search online for to make sure the company exists and the city is the same as what you state in your article. (I believe that's as deep as they go though)

So say you are supposed to be attending a certain college located in a certain city in your article. They will check that the college does exist in the city you stated, but they won't investigate further to see if you are really a student there.

The 'slap on the wrist' was minor and they still sent it off to their partner site and thanked me for correcting it. SO no harm done.

Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up on it

thanks again for the great tips.

I'm also finding that there are new C4C's at many times of the day, but especially between 11 pm EST-2 or 3 am.

That's true, I've noticed the same thing that they kind of trickle the regular C4C's in. The partner site claims (the high paying ones) seem to always show up at 11 pm pst though. (at least here in Cali)

Have you noticed the partner claims trickle in at any other time than 11pm-ish?

Just wondering as I've never seen a partner call show up midday or late afternoon.

Thanks

Just a heads up for anyone submitting under the "news items" category for the flat $4 per article. I had had dozens of them accepted by just grabbing breaking news stories online and having them rewritten but apparently AC is really cracking down on this. I had a bunch declined from multiple accts. All were the same as the dozens that had been accepted.

I reworked em as per their requirements and they got accepted, but it makes it alot more time consuming...GRRR

sorry if i sound noob but what does GAF stand for? NVM got it, get a freelancer.com

Hey redtide,

Quick question...is it possible to write a series of articles, each one its one entity, and title them "How to....part 1"? And them submit consecutively in one day? Or would be better to submit them on consecutive days? Any experience with this? Or do you have any suggestions?

Again, thanks for all your hard work in this thread...I know you have a life too so it's good of you to help out here. This shows the true spirit of BHW.

Regards,
ironlifter76

No problem iron, glad to help

I've never personally submitted a series of articles like that, but I have seen other sources who have. Of course we don't know if they were accepted for Upfont payment, or just for performance.

One thing I do alot though is a series of articles that are all basically the same but each with a twist ie: How to parent a stubborn 2 year old, stubborn 3 year old, 4 year old etc. Ac seems to love this type of stuff.

What you might try to do is to type in a search on AC with a popular keyword and add to it "part 1" part 2 etc. And see what you find. Then maybe send a quick msg to the source and ask them if AC pays Upfront or only performance for articles series. That would be easier than to produce the articles only to find AC doesn't like them.

If you find out anything let me know if you would as I was thinking of doing a series on motorcycle safety tips.

Good luck man

redtide,

Thanks for the reply...good suggestion, too. I went ahead and put an article up as Part 1. So, we'll see how they respond. I don't have the follow-ups ready yet but should have them ready to go by Monday. I'll definitely you know how it works out.

BTW, another "thank you". As I mentioned before, I was stuck in "analysis paralysis" mode 'til I read your thread and for some unknown reason it touched me and shook me out of it and got me moving. So, my first article is in...don't even know if they'll accept it or not. But at least now I'm doing SOMETHING. Got a few ideas to twist it up a little as I move forward and will let you and everyone know how and even if it does anything. So, thanks again for the motivation.

Isn't it interesting how sometimes you never know how what you do, say or write will affect someone?

Regards,
ironlifter76

The very first article I wrote and had accepted was from an interesting news story, but it wasn't something that 990 other people would have jumped on, so it got approved. It was something really small in interest scope, but news just the same.

That's awesome iron, that's exactly why I started this thread was to help motivate people into having a go at this and helping them scale it up.

I was the exact same way, too much reading and over thinking about how I wanted to do it "right", and not enough hopping in and taking action. I think I killed off quite a few brain cells during the information overload phase lol.

One thing I've learned here at BHW is to learn the basics, decide what method works best for your current skill level , and go for it, using trial and error to learn as you go (just like you're doing)

So you're well on your way to doing well with AC and making money online in general I think. You've got the right mindset.

Check your PM, I'm gonna send you something


Thanks for the sincere compliments

Any advice you need just let me know

redtide




Sweet, were you following all their guidelines by hyperlinking all the quoted sources etc? I hadn't been and like I said I had dozens accepted. lol up until the other day.

I'm going to continue to test the waters and throw a few up without all the requirements over the next week, but if they keep enforcing them, I think I'll just stick with the general rewrites and partner calls. I found it too time consuming for $4 to meet their endless requirements.

If you are just submitting news pieces for $4 without hyperlinking and citing sources etc. Let us know how it goes if you would.

Thanks

the news article thing seems good...are they accepting internationl news only or reginal specific also?

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Mine was a science article so i hyperlinked the scientist's name to his homepage and gave a couple links as "additional reading" at the bottom, which featured some of the science pages on the project from the colleges/etc that supported it.

Redtide, can you tell me whats the point adding links into the article? how are you going to get more view because of that. and what kind of link did you add? like if my article is about iphone, do i just add a link back to apple's site or something? thanks for the help!

AC only pay for US resident and you have to submit tax info,
the most hard thing is ,how to over come the tax problem?

Nice, let us now how they do in the future if you would.

regards




Adding links does a number of different things to add value to the articles Xmas, First, the sites you link to can pick up your article for a backlink which increases ranking in the search engines, thus adding to page views. Second, they are necessary for certian news and partner site articles to be accepted by AC for citing sources, Third, you can use them to link to other relevant articles you've already submitted and published with AC and it can double your page views. There's a few other reasons that I can't think of at the moment as I've been sitting at this computer way too long today lol

Look back at this thread and I'm pretty sure we covered how to do the linking. Basically ya, throw a link to apples site and then link any other relevant keywords to the top results in the search engines. If the top result is some obscure blog page or something then change up the phrasing of your keywords to link to a good page with high traffic.

Hope this helps


Sign up as an American citizen, even if you're not. When you get near the $600 cut-off just abandon account and start another. You can't gain much from the residual page views this way so it's all about the upfront offers. No problemo

Good luck

question for ya redtide.. when u submit your article rewrites "over the transom" (as in, they are not pre-assigned by AC), does AC respond back to you with an offer for your piece? I turned one in on a whim today and got back a choice: accept $3 for it, rewrite it, or decline it because of a "better offer" elsewhere.
Assuming they do this often, isn't it a gamble trying to guess how much they will offer you for your work vs. how much you pay someone to rewrite?

Almost all my articles get $3.00...
I rewrite them myself from ezinearticles and it takes 15 minutes a day per article.
I would just like to add this: write articles that are interesting and useful. great areas are technology, yoga, business, marketing, controversies, news, drugs, issues, etc.

Do NOT write an article about making a ton of money in a short amount of time. i tried this and they only pay you $1.

Ya werrich, thats how it works. Almost all of my articles are submitted without claiming an "assignment". It's not really risky, it's just a matter of learning exactly what AC is wanting. If you got $3 for one of your first regular submissions then you're on the right track. They usually pay 2-2.5 per article at first (since people just starting aren't familiar with what AC wants for the higher payments)



Another thing they don't like and won't pay upfront for are funny/comedy type articles.


Like I posted earlier in this thread, I give them a deadline of 24 hrs for a 10 article batch. They know this is a requirement as I make it clear in the beginning. This way you are getting articles back everyday to submit to AC rather than waiting for "whenever" the rewriters decide to get the articles back to you. See my post about the requirements I give my rewriters.

You'll have to place more than one ad at GAF and weed out the bad writers before you find the good ones. It took me over a month to find the 4 good writers I have now.

Good luck

thanks much redtide. as always u rock

since you have been w/AC for a while longer than myself and some others, what's a average offer for u now that u have clout?

Thanks werrich,

It's about the same as when I originally started this thread, between $3.5 and $4.5. Here lately they've been consistenly between $4- $4.5. It could have to do with clout level which is at a 6 now, but I think it's just that through trial and error I've nailed down better what they are wanting, and trying to consistently give it to them.

regards

thanks redtide. very helpful as always.

man, this is amazing data, after I Master ewhoring, I think I move onto Ac. Build multiple incomes, online. Never work for any one ever again. Sit at home and enjoy life.......Thanks for the info

Hi redtide1969
do you do keyword research before doing article rewrites if yes do you concern yourself with the competition and cpc and ctr value of the keywords?

anyways thanks for the great tips and guide you made here.

Hey what does GAF stand for? Can you really find writers there that will write good and descent content for just $1.00-1.50 per 500-600 words?

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GAF stands for GetAFreelancer.

Ask for some samples so you will have an idea of how good (or bad) the bidders' writing skills are.

Cool, glad the info helped, but I will say this method is alot of work, and really time consuming. I'm working 10-12 hrs a day on this method, and then spending another 5 or so hours looking for other methods to start up and try

So there is definately money to be made here, but it always comes down to time spent vs money earned, and on that front Ac isn't the most time effective method.

Not at all trying to disuade you, but this isn't easy money unfortunetly

Look at it as a "quick money" source and small residual income from page views, and you'll be golden.

Good luck with it


No problem glad to help,

No keyword research as submitting 40 articles a day, there just isnt time. Plus no real need for it with AC, the main thing is rewriting on niches that 1) havent been done to death and 2) people are likly to search for in the SE's

One of the main things with the method I use is cutting down time spent as much as possible. Between scraping 40 articles daily, adding resources to each, mailing them off to be rewritten, getting them back and proofreading, checking keyword density, that they pass copyscape and then getting them all formatted, hyperlinked and submitted, it can be pretty time consuming.

I'm always looking for ways to cut down on time spent working this method, which is key to not getting burned out on it.

Hope this helped

inspiring story, redtide!

Anyway, I have just got my verified account yesterday - which I pay for the acc to be verified. I wonder whether I can use my own paypal with that acc? would it be ok to use a different paypal profile with that ac acc?

Awesome, I'm glad it's helped ladyheart, on this one I don't have first hand experience as I'm from the States, but I would think it's fine to use your own PP acct, maybe some others can chime in on that.

Best of luck with this

regards





Hey Matt, I've pretty much covered most of it man, I'll do a quick rundown though..topic needs to be unique so do a quick search on AC to see that the topic isn't done to death, use keyword in title, subtitle and first paragraph for a total of 2-3% density in the article. Grammar, punctuation, spelling needs to be "near" perfect, add links to top ranking sites in SE's, make it interesting to read.

And also Matt take a look at, and read, the top sources articles (they are on the front page) My articles have been exactly like what theirs are like, same format, subject matters etc.

Good luck man

redtide

How do you get paid that $500-600 then if you're just throwing away the accounts?

oh I forgot to ask, what are you doing for the "references" section?

I've heard of articles being rejected for not citing sources.

lol AC pays you for each article you submit, so once youve ALREADY been paid the 500-$600 and it's securely tucked away in your PP account, (or long since spent) you just abandon the account and start a new one to replace it with. They don't pay you $600 in one lump sum mollah

Yes as has already been covered earlier in this thread, I cite two references at the end of each article

Good luck with this method mollah

man this is a great thread... lots of great information that I'll be putting to use!

so for the Call for Content, it's pretty much guaranteed money because it is assigned to you, as long as you write a good article? or what's the deal?

Ok, I'm thinking of investing some money.. hopefully I will make some good income..

BTW, as my ISP does not give me a unique IP every time I reboot my mode.. but only every once in a while and am not willing to use proxies (because are too slow and easily detectable) do you think that having one account at a time is a good idea?
For example right now I have an account, then I reach the $500-$600 mark and make a new one?
How many should I submit daily with this one account?

Thank you very much for your help! Great share man.

This thread has a lot of quality information. Going to use some of the tips here to hire on some freelancing sites later this week

Cool man. That is good money for a short amount of time.

Keep it up mate. Good luck.

Good luck with it...just scale that sucker up!


Ya exactly, write them a good piece with all their guidelines followed and it's guaranteed money. Remember, the "partner calls" are where the bigger money is.

Good luck



No problem, thanks. It's a great method if you're looking to make $70-90 a day. But unfortunetely its tough to make more than that based upon there only being 24 hrs in a day. Even if you're doing everything right and automating things as much as possible.

Great way to build starter income, and then bank on making a small amount monthly from recurring page views.

As far as the number of accts. 1 is totally fine if you're going to keep things small. If I was working that angle I would go ahead and submit more than the recomended 10 per acct per day and just start new accts if AC isn't liking it and suspends or bans. But if you're going to scale it up then you def. need multiple accts.

Again just keep in mind that everything is based on providing AC quality articles so even if you're submitting more than ten a day you'de probably be ok if the content is of high quality.

Good luck!


Best of luck man, let us know how you do



Thanks Sharer, I appreciate it. it is good money and has been my first jump into trying to make a living online. But as I said it's only really effective up to a point.

I've actually stopped doing AC because I've hit a cap on how much can be made with it. I've had a blast working the method and learning about writing online content, BH and Internet marketing so I'm glad I dived into it, but I'm using my writers now for Aff marketing purposes.

I will continue to offer any advice to you and everyone here at BH on this method in the future, just let me know any questions you guys have and I'll be glad to get them answered for you.

Best of luck everybody,

Thanks Sharer for the kind words,


redtide

Well.. If I submit 10 daily with one account, probably that would make me between $25 to $30 a day * 30 days (month) that is like $750 to $900 in a month - $300 expenses, which would be just great.

$46 in my paypal.. should get me started with 46 articles... now my only problem is... I have to find someone to write me at least 46 articles with $1 each... now that seems like a problem to me.. but will try get a freelancer or rent a coder.

Thanks

BTW, which subjects / categories do you choose to get a good amount of them approved by AC?

Thanks

Sorry for double post, but I can't edit my last post.