Can someone make a living from AC?

[AffGuy08]

Thanks for the input iamkassi, the 2 torrent sites that you suggested doesn't work. The tips and info you gave was posted somewhere on this site before, anyway thanks for the share.

Ok here is my take on this whole AC thing:


Make 4 different accounts. Lets say my usernames are:

Iamkassi
JohnnyKeatth
MaggieStone
MattBrown

Find 4 proxies and create 4 different bookmarks under the proxies.
For example go to hidemyass.com and create account for IamKassi at AC. Bookmark it while on that proxy, name the bookmark AC Account 1 Kassi. Find another proxy and do the same for JohnnyKeatth, and so on.

Choose 2-3 niches per account so it will look like this person specializes in only two-three areas. With 4 accounts, that 8-12 different niches for you to (re)write about and this helps to make everything look clean.

When you go to submit an article under a certain account make sure you hit the bookmark for that account.

Each account should be going through the same Paypal but with a different e-mail. (we all know you can have up to 8 different e-mails all leading to the same Paypal).

Submit 3 articles per day to each account. 12 articles x $3 average payment = $36 a day. $36X30= $1,080 a month.

[Compare this to a minimum wage job at $8 an hour 40 hours a week. $8x40= $320. $320x4= $1,280. $1,280 minus taxes= around $900-$1000. Would you rather leave the house and work for a boss and deal with customer service 160 hours a week or stay home and work 112 hours a week(assuming it takes you 4 hours to produce 12 articles...which is the max it should take)? Would you rather get paid twice a week or 3 times a week? Would you rather tell people you work at Mcdonalds/Staples/Grocery store, ect. or blow their minds when they hear you bank off the internet? Think about that.]

Methods to get articles:

#1. Re-write Articles Yourself

1. Go to article directories(helium.com, ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com isnare.com) and dig for articles in a good niche on the 2nd-5th pages to re-write.
2. When you re-write these articles make sure to rephrase every sentence completely...especially the title.
3. Put it through Copyscape.com by following these steps:

1- Make a blogger.com account.
2- Create a blog.
3- Go to settings and make sure your blog is not listed on directory and search engines.
4- Post the article as a blog post.
5- Go to copyscape.com
6- Enter your blog address.
7- Here you go! No results found!!
8- Delete the post from blogger after.

You can check each site max 5 times/day on copyscape.com. So when you hit the limit simply
create a new blog. If Copyscape.com blocks your IP use a proxy(proxy.org).

4. Submit 12 re-written articles a day in the appropriate accounts. (match niches with accounts)

**TIPS**

1. Get Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software. You can find it on torrent sites( http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=dragon%20naturally%20speaking ) Install the software and train it to your voice. Read the article using your own words but change the words order around/rephrase it. Dragon Naturally Speaking is very accurate. If you are native English speaker you will get 99% accuracy rate. If you have some accent it might drop to 90%. But it is still very good. Using this method you can rewrite one article in 5-10 minutes.

2. Get Power Article Rewriter software ( if you have a mac install the virtual machine called Fusion and run windows) and put your articles through the software. Make sure they pass the Copyscape.com test.


#2 Outsource Article Re-writes

1. Search around and find 2 people that will re-write articles for you at $1 each.
2. Repeat step #1 from the first method
3. Send your re-writters your articles
4. Pay them
5. Receive re-written articles
6. Edit them for any grammar/spelling mistakes.
7. Put them through Copyscape.com (see step 3 from method #1)
7. Submit them to AC


#3. Exploit Yahoo Answers

1. Create a new account on Yahoo Answers as a young cute college girl.
2. Go to your settings and change
your avatar. Upload a picture of a pretty 16-17 years old girl as an avatar.
3. Go to Education
and Reference ? Homework Help section and prepare a question like this:

Title: Can you send me your essays? I am desperate!

Content:
I am preparing a paper on student essays. I have to evaluate student essays as a teacher. I need at least 5 good essays to evaluate. Can you please send me your essays? They can be on any topic. Thank you so much!

4. Receive essays.
5. Submit them to AC


#4 Google Translation

Part 1

1. Find articles written in other languages in one of your niches.
2. Put it through Google Translator and translate into English.
3. Proof read for any grammar/spelling mistakes.
4. Put them through Copyscape.com (see step 3 from method #1)
5. Submit to AC.

Part 2

1. Find articles in your niche using the resources in step 1 of method #1.
2. Put them through Google Translator by translating the article first to German--->Dutch--->German again--->Finally back to English.
3. Proof read the articles
4. Put them through Copyscape.com (see step 3 from method #1)
5. Submit to AC.

#5 PDF Torrents

1. Go to torrenscan.com
2. Search for pdf magazines by typing in "November issue+niche" "nice+magazine" "pdf magazine+niche, ect.
3. Copy articles
4. Put them through Copyscape.com (see step 3 from method #1)
5. Submit to AC

You can find lots magazines on different subjects. You can even go for old magazines. Also you can go to http://www.warez-bb.org forum for more pdf
mags. They have a great archive.


Conclusion

5 fully scalable methods for you to produce 12 articles a day. Mix them up. Dig and re-write 3 articles yourself. Outsource 4 of them. Submit 2 essays you get from Yahoo Answers. Translate 2 articles. Copy one from an magazine you downloaded from a torrent.

Lets say you did the above and lets look at how much time that would take.

Digging and re-writing 3 articles and submitting them to AC = 1:30 MAX..especially with the aid of DNS and PAR.

Digging 4 articles to outsource for re-writes = 30 minutes MAX.

Creating a profile on Yahoo Answers, posting question, submitting essays to AC....Takes 10 minutes at the most to create a new profile, takes 5 minutes at the most to post a question. There will be some time in between while your waiting to receive essays. Submitting them to AC takes 5 minutes =30 minutes MAX.

Digging and translating 2 articles and submitting them: 1 hour MAX

Finding one in a magazine downloaded from a torrent+submitting to AC: 45 minutes MAX.

How much work time is that? 4 hours and 15 minutes. Over time you will get faster and can scale this down to 3 hours ( as i am being very modest with the times as it is anyway). 3 hours a day x 7 days =21 hours a week= 81 hours a month. Online writing job 81 hours a month or offline 160 hours a month "real" job?

In total you be submitting 360 articles a month. Sounds like a lot but remember you are not writing them! you are re-writing them, not only that you are paying others to re-write them for you. You will be getting essays/magazine articles free. When you break it down and just take it one day at a time 12 articles is not that daunting. Do 4 in the morning, 4 in the evening and 4 at night. Once you get the hang of it then you wont even have to think about it anymore.

Also: After an article gets approved and is on AC's site...submit it to Bukisa.

So that is my take on the whole AC thing. Hope you found it useful.

 

[AffGuy08]

I checked torrentscan.com yesterday and it was a parked domain lol

 

[jasonac2]

iamkassi, your post is very good (in theory)!. Average payment may be less or they may decline a lot of the articles. Also don't forget how lazy some people can be (including me)

I had a plan just to submit 2 articles a day to help my income, but after a week I got too lazy.

So overall, to people that want to get into AC, remember that you need to be consistent and if you get articles declined, just keep going. Even if it's 5 in a row.

 

[poiboy1964]

another tip from me is, if you have a girlfriend, fiancee or wife, ask her if you can use a paypal in her name and create an AC account in her name too.
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Good idea! I have a fiance also. She'll even write some articles for me. Thanks for the tip

Amen, to making your own money rather than working some crappy paying job!

 

[poiboy1964]

My goal is a minimum of $2,000 for the next 30 days, starting today as a complete newbie.

Good luck braddah! If I could make half that amount, I'd be dancing Well, back to writing...or rewriting

 

[poiboy1964]

So that is my take on the whole AC thing. Hope you found it useful.

Hell yeah! I found it very, very useful. This is great for a start. I don't know if I'll spend that much time dedicated to AC. I need time to explore other moneymaking ideas

 

[wscn007]

AC is fuckin down.I got 0.99 for every article I submited lately.What a shit!

Can you guys tell me whats the hot topics there?

 

[AffGuy08]

Thanks for the input and your experience with AC, yes how-to articles do get attention in AC for sure.

I dont think any article will get rejected as long as you follow these guidelines:


AC pays for well written, information and keyword-heavy articles about almost anything you can imagine. Literally. I've written about online selling, poker tournaments, exercise
routines, mans heart health, online music trading, website reviews, and even heavy metal music to name but a few. AC loves how-to articles, especially non-internet technology articles. You can also
include how-to articles about craft projects, home improvement, careers and education. They also love product reviews, as long as they're specific, including make/model of products, and a picture.


DO NOT WRITE ABOUT:

− CD/Book/Movie Reviews
− Poetry
− Fiction
− Editorial/Opinion articles that do not contain a lot of facts and unbiased information
− Humor articles
− News (about half of the news articles are declined)
− Local events/attractions (unless you live in a major city, there's just not too much
demand for these)
− the Internet (too much competition)

 

[TJ]

If you could somehow automate most of the process, probably. You could always think about outsourcing once you start to make a decent amount, but you also have to find the right people.

 

[kumkum]

interesting topic............
im in...

 

[admirdante]

Hell yeah... I make a living from AC... since in my country 100$ a day is HUGE money I live really good from it... And the best part is that most of the time I don't do notthing... I just outsource... and of course I use multiple accounts... just my 0.02$

 

[redtide1969]

Depending on how good your articles are that you're submitting, it's sometimes safer to submit 5 per day per account. If your articles are well written though you can submit up to 10-12 per day. Like I said, this is based on how good your articles are and how many you have rejected. If you're getting a lot rejected it's safer to submit no more than 5 so that AC doesn't flag your account.

Hope this clarified

 

[Topgurl]

@phrasion: Thanks for the input. I think you're right. I submitted 30 articles a day on 1 legit account for over a week. I wasn't banned. I think that they (AC) would prefer you do that rather then jerk with them using different IP's and accounts (Just my theory). I also absolutely understand the position you guys are in outside of the US.

I have several methods to acquire content . Outsourcing is one of them.

Thanks,
gun-shy

PS: Please note that I'm not trying to "break the bank" on this AC thing. I'm not one of those guys making $300 per day on it and I don't plan on going there. Remember...Pigs get fat, Hogs get slaughtered

I've been spending alot of time reading up and down various threads on AC some repetitive others useful. I've got to agree with Gunshy though its good to have multiple accounts once you can manage them, but not over do it / become greedy. The saying he used rocks 'Pigs get fat, Hogs get slaughtered '. I love it It's so true. Things should be done in moderation.

Anyway, if it works for you who am I to say nay. Just do you.

 

[mollah]

bukisa pays like $4 per 1,000 views?

How does that ever make money? What's the average number of views that an average article gets per year? Sounds like you'd need thousands of articles to make even beer money.

Can you spoof the views? Set up a bot to reload the page 1000s of times per day or something?

 

[thepunisher]

This was something I once thought about trying, I'm glad I didn't since it seems to be something that's dying.

 

[redtide1969]

lol people were saying it was dying 3 years ago and that was even before AC came up with their performance payment system or started offering up to $25 apiece for Partner Calls.

It's definitely not dying. If they ever stop offering upfront payments it would though.

 

[thepunisher]

Okay maybe the term "dying" was a bit rash. My system, the way I was doing it though I guess it had dried up and the truth of it is I became more interested in other things..

 

[eternalfrost]

im just getting started in IM and AC is great for a pretty much guarenteed income for any noob.

as for making a full time living? ive only been doing it a month. have figured out what works and what dosent and now am gettin 95% accepted upfront for $3-4 a pop. the most ive submitted is 10 per day, but not sustained. good articles too, not spun gibberish.

made about $100 last week, with maybe 6 hours actual work. and theres lots of room for streamlining that down way further.

i just found a good ghost writer so will be kicking it into gear now and see how things go with 10-15 each day, every day.

its not millionaire money but beats minimum wage for sure. what could really make this worth it is the residual PPV once you have a few 100-1000's up on a verified account.

 

[efwebs]

In what country does $100/wk beat minimum wage?

I'm sure it's great income if you are in a poor country, but that's a lot of work to scrap by in the US or the UK.

 

[gjrb29]

I think if you execute a good plan than you can probably make a living off of it but it also depends on your lifestyle...

But you would have to keep opening up multiple accounts once you have reached the $ limit @ AC.

My concerns about it is:
-Do you have to set up different paypal accounts?
-If, you don't have to set up different account, don't PP prevents you from taking out a certain amount and will they report you?

I was thinking 7 accounts ...7 different writers and each writer writing 5 a day minimum. That would equal to about 35 articles a day which is about $105 if you average about $3 per article.

If you pay 1 dollar per article that would be $35/day for outsourcing.

Assuming that all of the articles are accepted:

$105 x 22 days (off on weekends) = $2,310(Amount made) - $770(for outsourcing for 22 days for $1 for the 35 articles a day) = a profit of $1,540

than you can use the money you profit from this and start something like this:

just an idea you can think long term and possibly make a lot more if you started your own site. There are a lots of programs like WP and you can always add a theme to make it look nice.

I can put together a decent site in a week so building a site using some good scripts and some coding i picked up over the years so I would have to more likely focus on driving traffic


Just think about if we all started our own content mill, we would eventually make enough to hire writers and make alot more money.

I am thinking about doing something along this but I have to get my ducks in order

any comments, ideas or would like to punch holes in the idea...