AC loves personal stories, how-to's, guides, original fiction, etc. These are just a few of the topics that will get you upfront payments. In order to garner "premium" payments ($4-$5) from AC, make sure anything you write is 1500+ words. AC does not pay upfront payments for political commentary, oversaturated content, or photos. They will pay for this type of content on a "per click" basis, however. In other words, you earn so many cents per page view.
I have submitted and been paid for both original content and content I have "lifted and improved" from other sites. If you plan on getting content from other sites and being paid by AC, you need to make sure that the article is changed enough to be considered unique. You can achieve this by using a program such as w0rdfl00d (do a search and you can find this program here on the boards) and adding your own pertinent information to the article.
I have various accounts with AC, and submit no more than five articles per day per account. So, if I submitted 5 articles to each of my 3 accounts and received top payment for all of them, that would be $75 per day. $75 a day x 30 days =$2250 per month. Of course, this is theoretical because you will not always receive $5 for each article. I am just using this as a demonstration to show you the potential here.
Article writing is quite tedious and does not come naturally for some people. Once you get the hang of it though, you can knock down some decent cash with AC.
Hope this helped you out.
