Yahoo Contributor- how much can I scale this newb method?

eternalfrost said:

AC is the way i started out making money online.

im not sure about 50/day, but more like 10 is doable if working at it like a full time job. if you keep them being quality articles, not auto-spun junk, you can pretty much expect 3-5 each as long as you can pump them out.

good way to make some fast cash with no investment, but making your own site with them will make you much more returns in the long run. in my experience the recurring passive views are garbage with AC

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Complete support on this post. Pretty much sums up my experience with AC/YCN as well.

OP, are you still working this method? I'm curious about how you've made out with it. Give us an update, pls!

i was on your shoes mate, submitted a slide show and article, accepted but no offer and no up front payment....i never returned....lol

They keep getting F-ING approved without an Up-Front Payment offer, Revisiting my strategy and trying something else for now.

How many artiicles can you submit to AC a day,
without them closing your account?

Try submitting only 2-3 a day, and mix it up a bit (3 one day, 1 the next, 2 the next) per account you may have to stay under the radar. So if you want the equivalent of $25/day from upfront AC earnings alone, you'll have to have about 4-5 accounts, from which you write about 11-12 articles a day.

If you put that writing to other uses (spinning/rewriting and selling 12 related articles as PLR pack, e-course or other media), you can get the articles published in AC first, then publish them for your other project, and winnow some more cash out of your writing.

AGman said:

Now, even though I spun it I did add some actually unique content and beaf'd it up a little bit. So it wasn't just spun and submitted.

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How long are you spending on copyediting and "beefing" it up?

looks like they just changed things again. had been using them to get some backlinks to my sites. now they pretty much dont accept anything for upfront payments...

Hoping this helps:

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Yahoo Deletes 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Moves Rest To New Yahoo Voices Site
Dec 1, 2011 at 6:12pm ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo is cleaning up Associated Content by deleting some of the articles, moving the keepers to Yahoo?s domain and giving the site a new name, too. And next year, Yahoo will begin an online training course to help its writers create higher quality content.

The company has announced plans to "retire" more than 75,000 Associated Content articles, keep only "the best content submitted over the last seven years," and move it all to a new site, Yahoo! Voices. In the process, Yahoo has also introduced new submission guidelines for its army of writers.

Associated Content Hit By Panda

Yahoo bought Associated Content in May 2010, a site that ? at the time ? was creating about 10,000 new pieces of content per week. That was, of course, before Google?s "Panda" algorithm update targeted content farms in early 2011.

Speaking at our SMX West conference just a couple of weeks after Panda, Yahoo VP Luke Beatty (who founded Associated Content) said that two-thirds of Associated Content?s articles had suffered sizable declines in Google traffic, while the other one-third was getting more Google traffic.
Likewise, when the search industry tried to sort out Panda?s winners and losers, Associated Content was listed regularly on the losing side.

Yahoo Voices: Post-Panda
We haven?t asked Yahoo if today?s announcement is a direct reaction to the Panda update, and it?s unlikely they?d admit to it, but you don?t have to read too deep between the lines to see how it is.

For starters, Yahoo is retiring a domain (associatedcontent.com) that was hit hard by Google?s update and moving the content to yahoo.com, a more trusted domain. It?s ditching the entire Associated Content name and calling the new site Yahoo! Voices.
Yahoo has also eliminated some Associated Content, as explained in today?s announcement:

We have retired more than 75,000 pieces of inactive and outdated content from Associated Content. None of this content will appear on Yahoo! Voices, and only content that meets our revised Submission Guidelines will be accepted moving forward. Older content that does not meet these standards will be gradually retired or returned to the original author for editing.

To be fair, those 75,000 articles are a small drop in Yahoo?s bucket. Earlier in the announcement, Yahoo says that Voices will have "more than two million pieces of original content." So, depending on the exact numbers, Yahoo is zapping only about 4% of Associated Content?s material. Still, removing low-quality and under-performing content has consistently been one of the most common SEO recommendations for Panda-hit sites.

Even the new guidelines appear to go out of the way to teach SEO basics to Yahoo?s writers. Here?s a sample:
?Don?t rehash. You must provide a fresh and unique angle on every story.
?Don?t stuff your content with keywords. We encourage you to optimize your content for search-engine discovery, but not at the expense of readability.
?Don?t over-link. We encourage relevant links that make your content more valuable and informative. Avoid excessive hyperlinking that compromises readability.

I?m unable to find out how the new guidelines compare to the old. The previous Yahoo Contributor Network guidelines page (contributor.yahoo.com/community/guidelines) is gone and the URL redirects to the new page. It also doesn?t seem to be available via any cache searches.

Yahoo?s focus on quality is also evident in one other way: Early next year, Yahoo will launch Yahoo! Contributor Academy, an "interactive learning program" with lessons and tools to help its writers create "useful, engaging online content."

WOW! I didn't know some of that, esp. the 75,000 article deletion and the Yahoo! Contributor Academy. Sounds like the latter may be similar to Examiner University, which was essentially a bunch of kindergarten SEO tutorials. All the content mills are rejiggering things, it seems. I guess no one recovered from the Panda butthurt.

Can someone help me?

For about a week now, I can't seem to login to my yahoo contributor account.

Initially when they moved to voices yahoo, I couldn't see my earnings and after about 3 days, the earnings show up. Now, I can't even sign in so that I can pull out my earnings.

Any advice plzzzzz?