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By: Make Money Online with Brandon Hopkins » Who Do You Write For?

Make Money Online with Brandon Hopkins » Who Do You Write For? — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:28:25 +0000

[...] writing. I’ve discussed different ways that writing can make you money online such as with Associated Content. If you’re writing for something like Associated Content, obviously your writing needs to [...]

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:50:17 +0000

Brandon - you increase your AC bonus money by increasing page views for your articles. I’ve been using Digg, Furl & de.licious. I believe the min. bonus payout is $15. I’ve received pay (non-exclusive with the exception of 2) on all 8 articles submitted and have 2 waiting for an offer.

I like your idea and had a similar one. But its kind of hard to figure out which articles are going to pay the most. A medical article I thought would pay $20, only generated a $7 offer, and a credit card article I thought would get me $4, brought me $15.

Dee - There was a thread in AC’s forum about the difference in pay for non-exclusive vs. exclusive. It wasn’t a great difference, if I remember correctly it was something like $3 or so. I’m experimenting with the types of articles I submit there. I wrote an article on a currently hot topic to see if those generate higher offers.

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:42:13 +0000

Non-exclusive means you can publish the article again to your own websites as long as the byline is the same as your associated content (AC) byline.

Exclusive means that only AC has the right to publish your article.

You get more money submitting exclusive articles over non-exclusive.

Here’s the official statement on this topic from AC.

By the way, I got $13 for my first three (non-exclusive) articles.

By: Skitzzo

Skitzzo — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:12:30 +0000

Brandon, you’ve been tagged!
http://www.seorefugee.com/seoblog/2007/04/09/why-i-blog/

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:35:33 +0000

I do have a blog of my random thoughts, but I’ve not been posting to it much in recent months.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:14:32 +0000

Dee, my article was submitted as exclusive. What is the difference?

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:57:59 +0000

Associated Content looks great. I just wish they would pay quicker. I have four articles that haven’t gotten an offer. It’s been five business days already.

About the page views bonus, every 1000 views per specific article gives you $1.50.

Also, did you submit your article exclusive or non-exclusive?

Nice blog, by the way. Keep up the good work

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:18:11 +0000

Aaron, my denial email was very automated and similar to what you describe. Do you have a blog? $10 per article is better than the AC payout for that article, but you are right that I value my “well written” articles at much more than $10 each

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:13:41 +0000

I applied for an About.com position once, at the urging of an agent for writers. They replied with a rather terse one-line statement that my writing wasn’t what they had in mind. Reading it must have been a traumatic experience, because they also yanked the subject off of their “authors wanted” list and it still hasn’t reappeared.

If you want, write a full set of original articles based on the subjects listed in the “used cars” subject description… that’s twenty of them… and assuming your writing is of similar caliber to your blogging I’ll pay you $10 per article. I suspect I would be undervaluing your work, but apparently not as much as you do.

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:27:03 +0000

I was so close to joining, and then at the very last second I spotted

You must be 18 or over and a legal US resident to receive payment from Associated Content.

So basically they will take my article but won’t pay me (UK citizen)!
So for non US citizens be aware they will take your articles but have no plans on paying you