when will be the end of AC

[BH_Manic]

looks like downfall has started..they rejecting almost every content for me..

 

[Meraman]

Why would they purposely drop their investment of almost $10 million?
Trust me, they will not do this.

Why? Because stupid people do stupid things.

Maybe they are thinking that they do not need to pay people at all for articles, that they will get articles for free because they 'are the best'... who knows. Only time will tell.

Actually, a number of companies already followed that 'we are the best' route. And failed.

 

[Fireboltgirl]

I think AC could use more people like Red.

Hopefully upfronts (even shitty ones) never die.....surely they have been around long enough to
know that their model works and they are profiting handsomely.

 

[mentallychallenged]

You are right about contacting the publication directlyLyn's payment would have gone up as she would have cut out the middle man. But the problem is that many publications has long-term relationships with article syndication services and it is more than possible that the same article may have been ignored by the editor had Lyn submitted directly as against something they picked up from AC!
As a writer, who has written for many publications---but know very little about websites---I know this for a fact from personal experience.

Associated Content is a joke. It's a place to get started but not to continue for a long time. I went through Red's technique only because I had to teach someone how to earn money from AC and use the money for hosting/other things.

AC is simply a middle man for the most part. Earning $30 from a partner call is good on AC however, most freelance writers earn more than that. AC simply takes a cut from your payment.

Take, for example, AC writer, Lyn. She is all excited that her article was on CNN. Her article:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/02/08/tf.ideal.time.to.marry/

Looking at the article, it's not bad. Now checking out "The Frisky" website I noticed that she could have contacted them directly if she wanted to.

http://www.thefrisky.com/page/submissions/?TrackID=navbt

It does make me wonder how much she really got from AC vs what she could have earned from contacting "The Frisky" herself. How did AC split the earnings? 50-50, 70-30????

Of course, AC is a more "lazy" method for writers who don't want to contact sites, afraid to, or don't know how to approach companies with their articles.

***Oh while I'm on the subject of CNN: If you haven't done so, you should sign up at their ireport site. Even though CNN does not offer payment, the traffic from submitting an article there is pretty damn good. I submitted a few well written articles with pictures, and put "This article was written by [name] of .com"[/B][/U] and got over 1k viewe...ing. And earning a damn good living.[/QUOTE]

 

[Jason_parker700]

I would like to request people to stop writing for ac, since they won't pay you more than 2 - 3$ per article. It's better you write articles for your own blog, and make it go viral using facebook and twitter.

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coming back to the question, even i think that dec 2012 should be the last time before they stop giving upfront payments.

 

[johnconnor]

they denied all of my submitted articles too (except one review that got a lousy 2usd offer that i declined). i guess i will leave ac as it is for the moment and concentrate on other article websites/selling content directly etc.

 

[tygrus]

It's better you write articles for your own blog, and make it go viral using facebook and twitter.

If you have a way to automatically make an article go viral, thats a gold mine but I haven't seen it be that easy. Fill us in.

 

[danizdeman]

Here's the answer to your question....

look up "is" on google,
then click on the first result,
then look at the first thing there.

 

[zebrahat]

The other way to look at it is, if you reference your own blog/site as a 'source' in your submitted articles, AC is paying you to backlink to your own monetized webpages. Getting that up front pay is kind of like working capital to compensate you while you build your empire. If you say EZA backlinks could do that better, well,there's nothing stopping you from submitting to both, or even having them cross link to each other, to improve your rating on both directories.

 

[Millygirl]

The other way to look at it is, if you reference your own blog/site as a 'source' in your submitted articles, AC is paying you to backlink to your own monetized webpages. Getting that up front pay is kind of like working capital to compensate you while you build your empire. If you say EZA backlinks could do that better, well,there's nothing stopping you from submitting to both, or even having them cross link to each other, to improve your rating on both directories.

The issue with putting a blog link as a source is a very tricky one. AC reviewers removed a few of mine even though my blog post was the same topic as my submitted article. It's better to put those articles as "Display Only".

 

[zebrahat]

So I might otherwise include the site link else where in the submissions, so it's not viewed as a 'source' link. I've linked from AC articles with no problems, if others are shy about it they could link instead to their EZA articles. The point is that AC upfront payments should be seen more as a subsidy for building your general IM, instead of as a profit center in itself.

 

[gloswel]

This is a very interesting and helpful thread - a lot of wise advice.

 

[brucekaushik]

guys i wanted to post articles on AC and earn though it .. i was struggling for money .. but i did a quick search before starting to write on AC and found that many people were willing to pay me more than 2$ per article ... now i get 3$ per article and i had a very dependable client (now she will be out of works soon) ... so why go for 1.5$ of AC when u can get more??

and i have a question too ... i am more a creative writer(people say i write some good ones) .. but for money i am writing all kinds of articles though ... does anyone have any ideas for earning though creative articles??

the focus is mainly because for niche article there are a lots of ways (which i am going to try very soon) .. but for creative article there are none .. and we can't earn a lot through adsense also ..

please give me reply friends ...

 

[zenmoog]

question answered