Made $30 on two articles today

Yea it probably is better to lay low with the news pieces for a bit just to play it safe.
Tim their head news reviewer had emailed me about the resources on one of my Reuters pieces, so I used the oppurtunity to contact him about other news pieces before writing them.

Congrts! That's a killer feeling seeing nice chunks of money rolling into your PP acct I know. Like I said you're definitely on the right track getting such consistant pay per article. It would have been sweet if you could have capitalized on their $52 mistake lol.

That's a great idea with splitting up the SEO articles, keep it up man!

I started my first article yesterday and being a newbie as a writer is a bit hard.Thanks for sharing your inspiring earning in articles.

can you build backlinks also by submitting to ac?

Cheers Ridetide,

I've put the article writing on hold for the last couple of days and been on an all out assault on trying to find other people to write them for me.
GOD is it a challenge. Certainly had a lot of people offering to rewrite them for cheap but barely any of them can write at all.
Still, I have about 4 good leads who are all in the process of rewriting a test article to see how they get on. I'm not holding my breath though.

How long did it take you to find them?
Any secret places to look for rewriters?
And hows the ebook coming along?

Cheers

That's awesome Akromae, I'm glad you're diving into it and excited to see how you progress. Like I said, the initial hiring takes time and patience for sure. but you'll end up tucking away good rewriters one by one, getting them started as you weed through the crappy ones. Remember to let them go quickly after having them do the first couple articles if they just aren't cutting it. I hope one of the leads you've got pays off.

Running two ads at a time it took me a few days to find the first really good one, and a month total do end up with a team of 4 that busted out 10 each per day. At one point I had 7 writers which is just too much to manage in a 24 hr day. But once you get them trained it's just a matter of scraping, sending, editing, submitting. You get into a nice routine while they do all the writing.

The books coming along great, worked on it all day today. Thanks btw for offering the testimonial. I hadn't had a chance to thank you on that. Ya it's got 18 chapters covering pretty much every aspect of making money from (ie taking advantage of) AC. It's gonna be newb friendly but also have plenty of tips and tricks for people already working the method. I'm anxious to get the damn thing done lol. It should be ready in the next week.

Let me know how it goes, i'll try to help if you run into any roadblocks or anything.

Cheers

Had a few more replies today which is good news, from people who actually sound/type English. Still waiting back on a lot of test articles, would think they get them done today as it is only Monday.

Note to self - DP is the WORST place imaginable for finding people lol. Complete waste of time. Lots of replies but complete junk.

When you say running two ad's at a time do you run two ad's on the same website with just altered ad copy? Might be worth a try.

I'm hoping to get at least a few guys on board over the coming week.

Seven writers must of been difficult. I suppose once you get up to four you could start considering hiring someone to manage the four article writers and get them to forward you the finished ZIP at the end of each day. Thats only going to be profitable though if you have another team.

The possibilities are endless!
No problems about the testimonial at all. Glad I can be of some use. Hopefully I will be able to give you a really decent success story in the coming weeks as well (Fingers crossed). I will of course be first in line to buy it.

Glad to hear the eBook is coming along well. I feel like i'm progressing but I bet theres a trick and a half in there that will really get things moving. 18 chapters, jesus, how many pages is that?

Recently I have been having some decent luck with those news articles I submitted last week. Over the weekend the traffic they got was really decent. Well a hundred or so per article, but over time that will really add up. The only worry is I know that that (some what limited) constant stream of income is annoyingly limited to the lifetime of the account which with 200 articles/week wont be long.

Maybe instead of running accounts til they are bust its better to half empty them and leave the rest for that trickle of performance payments. Over the course of years and a decent number of accounts I bet it adds up.

I think im also going to consider purchasing a few US private proxies and maybe even paypal accounts to make things a bit more legit.

Keep up the good work,

Ya DP is a waste of time for this. I like to stick with GAF, but pretty much anywhere you go you're going to have to weed through the crappy bidders.

I will place two ads at GAF on two separate accts and have a slightly reworded ad on each. I probably shouldn't give this out since it's in the book but what I do is obviously not choose a winner on each ad, then if I still haven't found at least a couple of really good writers I'll email GAF support and ask them to re-bump my ad listing. As you've probably seen you get less bidders the longer your ad has been up because it drops down the list everyday.

So I tell GAF that I still haven't been able to find a qualified writer (even if I have) and they'll re-bump it back up to the top. All of a sudden you're getting tons of bids again.

Works like a charm

If you're using GAF are you placing your ads in 5 or 6 categories each? It helps alot with exposure. Basically it's just a numbers game, you have to weed through the crap before you get to the gems.

Glad to hear about the news pieces doing well, if you are just using throw away accts I wouldn't worry too much about the views themselves.

Great idea with the leaving the accounts though, lifetime residual can pay off nicely.

Ya the book is 17 chapters at this point but no fluff, here's a list of the table of contents so you can see what it contains. I am going to have to charge more than I initially expected, just because I have so much time involved in writing it. But I am going to keep it as low as possible.

Continue to keep me posted on your progress if you would


[FONT=@Batang]1) A Brief introduction to Associated Content and the method[/FONT]
[FONT=@Batang][/FONT]
[FONT=@Batang]2) A no fluff or bullshit approach to making REAL money online[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]3) Necessary tools and Services[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]4) Giving A.C. JUST what they are wanting[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]5) Getting to know the basics of SEO [/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]6) An introduction to Outsourcing[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]7) Hiring quality writers/rewriters at $1 per article[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]8) Training your writers to produce QUALITY content[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]9) Account management and "foreign relations"[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]10) Secrets to getting maximum $$ for upfront pay[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]11) Boosting Performance Payments (PPV) with proper linking[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]12) Promotion tactics for long term PPV income[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]13) Using "Partner Calls" to pocket an extra $60-80 a day [/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]14) Speeding up the submission process and article formatting[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]15) Putting a "twist" on rejected articles[/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]16) Other methods of making $$ with A.C. [/FONT]

[FONT=@Batang]17) Giving A.C. love and avoiding the ban-hammer[/FONT]

Im liking the sound of that. You've definately got all the bases covered.
Haha not too much more I hope

Yeah I have been listing the jobs in as many categories as possible.

Well, after going through all the applicants I now have 3 article rewriters lined up who I am pleasently surprised about with a couple more waiting in the wings.

Sending the first batches of articles out today which is exciting. Just going to have to get quick at my end of the bargain now. Researching, scraping, archiving and sending them on. I could probably do with finding a better article source as well but for the time being using various article directories will do.

I will let you know how it goes

Cheers

You're on your way man, so glad to hear it :biggthump

Have you been offered any partner calls?

Nope nothing like that yet. I have done a few pieces from the Assignment desk but it didnt really work out time-effective. perhaps when they are a bit higher paid they will do. I havent set up the "interests" on the accounts either so that could be having an affect on the work I am offered.

I did notice a couple of accounts have had their level upgraded to 2 which I presume means a step in the right direction of more consistent payments.

Im just sat waiting now on my first 3 proper writers, sent them all the work at 3am this morning when I couldnt get to sleep. Only took me about an hour to scrape all 30 articles as well which was surprising.

What I found takes time previously was the actual submissions of each individual piece.

Is associated Content only for people from the US?

I'm from the UK.

Akromae said:

Nope nothing like that yet. I have done a few pieces from the Assignment desk but it didnt really work out time-effective. perhaps when they are a bit higher paid they will do. I havent set up the "interests" on the accounts either so that could be having an affect on the work I am offered.

I did notice a couple of accounts have had their level upgraded to 2 which I presume means a step in the right direction of more consistent payments.

Im just sat waiting now on my first 3 proper writers, sent them all the work at 3am this morning when I couldnt get to sleep. Only took me about an hour to scrape all 30 articles as well which was surprising.

What I found takes time previously was the actual submissions of each individual piece.

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I usually check for the partner calls at least 5 times a day as they won't last long once they're listed. The money is so much better it's worth checking throughout the day. I agree, I don't mess around with the regular assignments, some of the offers they throw out there are laughable.

I noticed with the clout level that the upfront offers got bumped up once I reached 5-6. I'm at 8 now and had my first offer breaking the $5 dollar mark this morning. They offered $5.11 for a How-to on first aid for a gunshot wound.

Great job with the scraping time frame!

One thing people don't realize with A.C. is it does take work, it's not like they throw money in peoples PP accts for nothing. You're well on your way compared to most Akromae, many people once they dive into it are like "man this is like work" which I find pretty funny because no form of making money is just handed to you on a plate...it takes effort.

You're going into it with a solid work etthic I can tell. Keep it up because like I said if you're already getting in the $3.50 range it will only get higher as long as you keep your content consistent.

You'll be golden once your clout comes up and they start offering the $10-$20 partner calls. :clap2:

Had a minor setback with the book this morning, (actually a "wanted to smash my head into a wall" major setback) I spent 14 hours completing three of the most important chapters and for some reason that I still can't figure out, Word 07" didn't save it...14 hrs for nothing. Was so freakin
pissed.

Anyway, keep it up mate

seeplusplus said:

Is associated Content only for people from the US?

I'm from the UK.

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Ya you can still use AC but just need to get/buy a phone verified account and then sign up at AC as a US citizen even if you aren't. When they ask you for a W9 just abandon the account and start a new one.

Good luck

You can both talked about this matter to settle things.The payment on every article depends on the number of article and how long it is,the number of words to be on the article.

Actually, I've got a friend that's an editor at A.C. (which is where I get much of my info about AC) The length of the articles has nothing to do with how much they offer you for upfront pay. I've got a full "insiders guide" being released soon that explains exactly what AC wants and looks for for high upfront payments.

It will offer a powerful insight into how AC really works

redtide1969 said:

Ya you can still use AC but just need to get/buy a phone verified account and then sign up at AC as a US citizen even if you aren't. When they ask you for a W9 just abandon the account and start a new one.

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What do you mean by a phone verified account? Is this paypal account or AC account?

What do non US use for zip code? Just look up a random one?

Yes Animal,

The PVA'S are AC phone verified accounts.

For the zips just do a search online for a US zip code.

Hope that clarified

hi redtide,
i am planning to open 5 to 6 associated content accounts with different paypal addresses. is it okay i will use five or six random first names and same last names for acccounts? as i want to attach them to my bank account and in paypal we can change the first name but not the last name.
doesnt it looks suspicious to associated content with accounts having same last names but different first name but created from different ip addresses?

redtide1969 said:

I submit approx. 40 articles a day and get $3.50 to $4.50 per article and very few get denied (1 - 3 per 100 submitted)

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Okay, so I really feel like a dummy right now. I read this 2 days ago, and I can't believe I didn't see my answer staring my dead in the face! That fact that you submit 40 articles per day...That's what I have been looking for! Maybe I missed that because it was late at night.

I'm going to go smoke a cig, and come back and read the rest of the thread. I'm not extremely knowledgeable about SEO, but I am a darn good writer, so I would rather do the re-writes myself for now, as I don't even know how I would "train" someone else to write for me.

Thanks, Redtide. And thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

romil2009 said:

hi redtide,
i am planning to open 5 to 6 associated content accounts with different paypal addresses. is it okay i will use five or six random first names and same last names for acccounts? as i want to attach them to my bank account and in paypal we can change the first name but not the last name.
doesnt it looks suspicious to associated content with accounts having same last names but different first name but created from different ip addresses?

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Hi Romil,

It does look suspicious for sure, but the whole point is laying low at AC and not giving them a reason to look into your account. As of now anyway, they don't check it randomly or have software for auto checking. A lot of times what happens is that people will get some articles rejected or cite some bad sources doing partner calls and Ac will look into the account. You have to have given them a reason to dig deeper. I personally feel this is safer to be dealing with AC bans than dealing with Paypal bans or accounts getting frozen by using multiple PP's. If AC bans you, no biggy start another account. When you've got this scaled up you're creating new accounts a lot anyway.

lol if they did look into it with all different first names and common last names...just tell them you've got a big extended family.


Good luck mate

mochaisis said:

Okay, so I really feel like a dummy right now. I read this 2 days ago, and I can't believe I didn't see my answer staring my dead in the face! That fact that you submit 40 articles per day...That's what I have been looking for! Maybe I missed that because it was late at night.

I'm going to go smoke a cig, and come back and read the rest of the thread. I'm not extremely knowledgeable about SEO, but I am a darn good writer, so I would rather do the re-writes myself for now, as I don't even know how I would "train" someone else to write for me.

Thanks, Redtide. And thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

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No problem mochasis,

Hey pass the lighter man would ya? I need a smoke too

Anyway for AC you'll only need to know the basics of SEO which is nice. And yes, that's a great idea, just start small and get to know what AC wants before you try to scale it up with rewriters. I hate to do a shameless plug on my book, but I do cover the things you mentioned in detail. As you start to get to where you're ready for rewriters feel free to send me a PM and I'll help you get started with it.

Good luck mate, light up a smoke and dig into it!

Hey there RedTide! I have to tell you that I am so excited for your ebook to come out. I am all over it when it does....And regarding the 14 hour work loss. That has happened to me on so many occasions, once in college on a 25 page paper...Just disappeared, and I had to start all over.

After reading, and smoking, I was totally inspired! I was looking for articles and then two just flew into my head. I wrote 2 in about an hr, the completely whitehat way...

Tomorrow, I'll get to re-writes and since I've only done 2 today, I'm going to have to spread the rest of the quota out over the rest of the week. I totally see how getting other people to write for you is beneficial...

I promise not to bug you too much, but I will probably be PMing you in the near future to see how I can really make some loot...like 3700 to 4k a month. I know it can be done, but its the time...Grrr....I am willing to put in the work though. :ranger:

Thanks again for this. I think this thread needs to be stickied....with SUPERGLUE.