wow that some good ratio of article accepted i have a lot of issues with ac as it declined a lot of my article because they are not unique enough bla bla something like that ,the article should be very targeted to be accepted and yet didn't receive more than 3 dollars
All I can say is brush it off and keep tweaking things out. I have a VERY good ratio of accepted articles as does my Fiance. We both have completely different writing styles. It really comes down to a lot of things that have been covered in this thread. I extensively read this thread and took notes. More importantly than that though, I limited the time I did do "reading" and spent time "doing".
Then I started taking notes of every article I wrote, how much it payed me, what it's niche was, and then how well it was doing in page views. I started building graphs to help me visualize my techniques as well. AC is ever evolving and you should be too. If you ran a business would you keep track of your day to day and weekly business techniques and what your ROI was? How your customer flow increased or decreased? What there average purchase amount came out to? I know I sure would.
So I do this with AC. There isn't even anything BlackHat or wrong about it. It's just considered smart business & has really improved my content writing for EVERYTHING. My blogs get such better submissions from me now because my ability to write with SEO practices established has improved so much from my AC experience. I think my business ethics & practice in general has greatly improved.
I have a whiteboard here on the wall in my office, that's about 3 feet wide. We brainstorm idea's and writing strategies daily on it. Niches, article types, etc. Then document the outcome. We usually do 3 day runs on certain ideas & if they seem to be working & graphing in an upward fashion. We scale that particular idea up & bleed it dry then move on.
I haven't found one single niche that I can continually write in, with the same writing techniques, same SEO techniques, linking, etc. that will consistently rise in pay for more than 3 weeks before it starts to either drop or become "Not Unique Enough". Sure I can stay in that niche that's doing well, I just have to adjust my writing techniques.
Treat AC like a business and evolve your writing with the evolution of there company, stay ahead of the curve. I promise if you do that your acceptance ratio's will be great. I know I'm not the only one staying abouve 90%-95% acceptance ratio on my articles. Even if the upfront is only $2.62-$2.85 when they are really bad articles. At least they do get accepted. Getting consistent above $4 offers accepted should be your goal.
I really hope this helped you but any of this info has been added to this thread more than one time in these 26 pages. I will honestly say I think this thread was at 16 pages when I found it and I read EVERY page before even adding to the thread or posting a question.
Honestly the best thing you can do though is "DO" then record what happens, adjust and "DO" again. So many times i've been caught up in planning and reading more than doing and it becomes my downfall. This time around I did things and asked questions later.
I will say miticulously log everything you do though. I log my average page views for each article daily, I log the sites I promote each article on, the date I promoted each, the article I promoted, the url of the page the link is on (if it's a forum post, I make logs of the url's that go directly to the thread I put it in), the date I bumped a thread last, etc.
I log niches and there performance, I log time speant writing on a niche vs ROI, I log EVERYTHING I can and stay super organized. I use a combination of technology and good old pad, pen, and sticky noted. I use a huge dry erase board on my wall as well. There is something about actually "writing" notess sometimes that makes them so much more real and relevant not to mention easier to comprehend and remember.
You wonder why successful companies run very organized and stick to company policies? Because organization; it may not be the key to success... ... ...but it's definitely part of the combination.
